Former President Bill Clinton had a strange moment while praising the late Ethel Kennedy before a crowd of influential politicians and members of the Kennedy family.
During her remarks at the Kennedy matriarch’s funeral Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., Clinton revealed to the crowd what she really thought of Robert Kennedy’s widow.
“I thought your mother was the cat’s meow,” Bill said of the late 96-year-old.
“She flirted with me in the most innocent way,” he continued to cautious laughter from the audience.
Former President Bill Clinton speaks at a memorial service for Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC, U.S., on October 16, 2024. He joked that Kennedy She used to ‘flirt’ with him and thought he was ‘the cat’s meow’ during her speech at his funeral
The former president continued, apparently making another joke about how she had 11 children.
“I remember once saying, ‘You know we’re no longer a replacement population and the whole policy is anti-immigrant, what are we going to do?’
“We need more people like you,” he joked of Kennedy’s large brood.
In total, Ethel Kennedy had 34 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren in addition to her own children, her son Robert Kennedy Jr. posted in X last week.
President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama attended, as well as the enormous Kennedy clan.
Clinton, who has had her fair share of salacious headlines about her scandal with Monica Lewinsky and later reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein, did not shy away from talking about her past with Kennedy.
The moment, while light-hearted, is sure to raise eyebrows after Clinton has had a series of awkward moments.
The joke told by Clinton caused modest laughter from the audience
Ethel Kennedy and Bill Clinton attend an event together in 2006
Earlier this week he was criticized for getting the facts wrong when trying to blame Donald Trump. for the death of college student Laken Riley, 22, who was murdered while jogging at the University of Georgia in Athens.
The Democrat claimed that Trump hindered a bipartisan border bill.
However, it turned out to be an extraordinary mistake as migrant José Ibarra actually entered the United States illegally from Venezuela in September 2022 under the Biden-Harris Administration.
He was arrested for the murder of Laken Riley on February 22 after being investigated and released by the current administration.
‘(Kamala Harris) is the only candidate who has actually supported a bill that would limit immigration in a given year to a certain point and then make sure to give people a decent place to live, without separating people from their families. children. “And we did a full investigation before people came in. Now, Trump killed the bill,” he said.
US President Joe Biden, former US President Barack Obama and former US President Bill Clinton attend the memorial service for Ethel Kennedy at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, US, on October 16, 2024
—You had a case in Georgia not long ago, right? Did they make an ad about a young woman who had been murdered by an immigrant? -Clinton asked.
Clinton spoke on the issue of immigration and Riley’s high-profile murder during Vice President Kamala Harris’ election campaign in Georgia.