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Join NowVanity Fair: “Kennedy came up behind her, blocked her inside the room, and began groping her, putting his hands on her hips and sliding them up along her rib cage and breasts.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, MoveOn Political Action denounced Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s abhorrent behavior revealed in an explosive Vanity Fair piece published today—allegations that he hasn’t denied. The piece details how RFK Jr. sexually assaulted his children’s former babysitter, Eliza Cooney. Additionally, the reporting surfaced that RFK Jr. regularly shared nonconsensual explicit images of women with friends.
“The allegations that have surfaced today about RFK Jr. are abhorrent and absolutely disqualifying. These are not mere ‘skeletons’—this is beyond harmful behavior that mirrors the backward ideas he has been spewing as a candidate. RFK Jr. should bow out of this race now, and the women he victimized deserve justice. The stakes are too high for someone with this troubling record and these extreme views to swing the election for Donald Trump,” said MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting.
Background:
This isn’t the first time that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been accused of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior toward women. In his 2015 book RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream, Jerry Oppenheimer reported that multiple women said RFK Jr. had touched them inappropriately or exposed himself to them—repeatedly fondling women under dinner tables and exposing himself to his wife and her friends around their house.
RFK Jr. also staunchly defended three of his relatives who were accused of rape and violence against women or girls:
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