Robert Kennedy Jr has strongly denied eating a dog, revealing that he ate “pretty much anything” except three things.
The 70-year-old independent presidential candidate slammed a Vanity Fair article that claimed he had eaten a dog in South Korea, calling it “a dumping ground of misinformation.”
Talking about Nation NewsOn Tuesday night, Kennedy said: ‘I’m a very adventurous eater… I eat pretty much anything.
‘There are three things I would not eat: I would not eat a human, I would not eat a monkey and I would not eat a dog.
“I think I’d eat anything else, but I can’t bring myself to do those things, so it’s a goat and you are what you eat.”
On Tuesday, Vanity Fair published an in-depth analysis of Kennedy’s long history of “reckless” behavior, detailing his drug use and sexual assault allegations. The article included an image purportedly showing Kennedy holding the charred remains of a dog.
On Tuesday, Vanity Fair published an in-depth analysis of Kennedy’s long history of “reckless” behavior, describing his drug use and sexual assault allegations.
The story reportedly included an image that purportedly showed Kennedy holding the charred remains of a dog.
VF said Kennedy had sent the photo in question to a friend last year, recommending he try a restaurant in South Korea that serves dog meat.
The magazine said a veterinarian identified the animal as a dog because it had a characteristic “floating rib” found in canines.
The photo’s metadata shows it was taken in 2010, the same year Kennedy contracted brain worm.
On Tuesday afternoon, RFK Jr. posted on X saying that the gray-haired animal was not a dog but a goat and that the photo was not from Korea but from Patagonia.
He gave the same explanation during an appearance Tuesday afternoon on Fox News.
“Hey @VanityFair, you know that when your veterinary experts call a goat a dog and your forensic experts say a photo taken in Patagonia was taken in Korea, you’ve joined the ranks of the supermarket tabloids,” Kennedy wrote.
RFK Jr. said: ‘There are three things I would not eat: I would not eat a human, I would not eat a monkey, and I would not eat a dog.’
“Keep telling America that up is down if you want. I’ll keep talking about the fact that working families can’t afford to buy a home or food because our last two presidents embarked on a $14 trillion debt journey, paid for by hard-working Americans,” the independent continued.
The Vanity Fair article goes on to suggest that Kennedy may have contracted the brain worm in 2010 from the “dog.”
The candidate said he believed he contracted the tapeworm through food he ate, although it is unclear where he ate that food.
The VF story also included claims that RFK Jr. sexually assaulted a former family nanny, Eliza Cooney.
Cooney reportedly told the magazine that Kennedy groped her in the family kitchen.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Libertarian National Convention on May 24
Kennedy has since said the article contained “a lot of garbage,” but when pressed by a podcast interviewer on whether he denied the sexual assault allegation, he said, “I’m not going to comment on that.”
Kennedy told the Breaking Points podcast on Tuesday: ‘I’m not a church guy.
“I had a very, very eventful youth,” he told podcaster Saagar Enjeti. “In my coming-out speech I said I have so many skeletons in the closet that if everyone could vote, I could run for king of the world.”
He also said the magazine was “recycling stories from 30 years ago” and insisted: “I’m not going to comment on the details of any of them, but it’s… you know, I am who I am.”