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RFK Jr.: “It will be wonderful” to have Trump as president
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Both Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump will be addressing the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville, which runs today through Saturday. RFK Jr. will be speaking on Friday, and Trump will speak on Saturday.
Ahead of his remarks, MoveOn Political Action called attention to RFK Jr.’s hypocritical antiscience, anticlimate positions—and his continued alignment with Donald Trump. Yesterday, on a panel preceding the conference, RFK Jr. said he thinks Trump “is highly likely to be the next president” and added, “It will be wonderful to have a president in office who understands the importance of bitcoin.”
Last week, bombshell video footage of Trump and RFK Jr. speaking on the phone surfaced and showed the two men discussing a mutual love of antivaccine conspiracy theories. These two peas in a conspiracy-riddled pod also met in Milwaukee to discuss a potential spot in Trump’s administration for RFK Jr., just hours before Trump announced he’d chosen Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. To further debase himself in search of a Trump administration appointment, RFK Jr. was also quick to defend the former president after he was found guilty of 34 felonies.
RFK Jr. and Trump share more than anticlimate and antiscience views. They are also both in favor of abortion bans, want to ban IVF for women and couples trying to start families, and oppose commonsense gun safety measures. Their shared billionaire, right-wing donors further illustrate that they are two sides of the same coin.
“RFK Jr.’s cozying up to the crypto industry, his alignment with Trump, and his track record of getting forced out of multiple environmental organizations prove that he’s a hypocrite and cannot be trusted on climate,” said Britt Jacovich, MoveOn spokesperson. “He may wax poetic about nature, but when it comes to protecting the planet, he is in lockstep with Donald Trump and personally profits from oil and gas drilling. RFK Jr. is nothing but a phony hypocrite, and voters cannot trust a single word he says.”
BACKGROUND:
- RFK Jr. was forced out from two climate organizations because of his antiscience views.
- RFK Jr. called climate action a “global plot” by intelligence agencies and a shadowy “cabal” to “impose totalitarian controls” and “control us through fear.”
- RFK Jr. said he supports an increase in domestic oil drilling and aligns with corporate interests on “solutions” to climate change.
- A dozen environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and Sunrise Movement, called him “a dangerous conspiracy theorist and science denier whose agenda would be a disaster for our communities and the planet.” Another group of 50 environmental advocates called for RFK Jr. to “honor the planet” and drop out of the presidential race.
- The environmental harm of bitcoin mining is well known—cryptocurrency has a carbon footprint that could make it as bad for the planet as the beef industry, and it consumes more energy than the entire nation of Sweden.
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