Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an alarming candidate for many reasons, but one oddly went unmentioned: his treatment of women.
Since RFK Jr. has risen in the polls — he’s consistently 20 percent against President Biden — RFK Jr. hasn’t been short of interviews. Time Magazine, The Atlantic, ABC News (which blunted its factually false COVID vaccine claims), the New York Post, CNN, Tucker Carlson, Bill Maher, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk—all have interviewed Kennedy extensively.
Still nobody asks.
A recent Daily Beast column on Kennedy’s muscular physique, 69, examined with great seriousness, “What shirtless push-up RFK Jr. says about the 2024 election.”
I’d rather examine what a known misogynist who reportedly tormented and then slandered his second wife after she killed herself says about the 2024 election.
Here was actor Billy Baldwin on Twitter in April, posting a photo of RFK Jr. and his late wife Mary – who he said spent much of the time crying on his shoulder over her horrific husband:
“If Bobby were half a man she would be alive today.” It will all come out. His campaign will be over in weeks. If these walls could talk.’
According to those who knew her well, Mary suffered from RFK Jr.’s incessant womanizing. He kept sex diaries, which Mary discovered and gave to a trusted friend. If anything happens to her, maybe the world will know who we’re really dealing with.
At the back of each journal were books listing all the women Bobby dated—many of Mary’s friends or women in her social circle—numbered one through ten, showing, like a teenager, how far along each one was had sexual encounters.
A recent Daily Beast column on Kennedy’s muscular physique, 69, examined with great seriousness, “What shirtless push-up RFK Jr. says about the 2024 election.”
Here was actor Billy Baldwin on Twitter in April (above) posting a photo of RFK Jr. and his late wife Mary – who he said spent much of the time crying on his shoulder over her horrific husband
One entry reported three women in one day. Sometimes he would target women with Mary right there.
And Bobby Jr. always blamed women for his womanhood, writing that they “ambushed” him. He said his 30-day jail time in Puerto Rico – for trespassing during a protest – was great because not a single woman could be found.
“I’m so happy here,” he wrote in a July 2001 diary entry, according to the New York Post. “I have to say it. There are no women. I am happy! Everyone here seems happy. It’s not misogyny. It is the opposite! I love her too much.’
Sounds like misogyny to me. According to his reasoning, Bobby Kennedy Jr. wouldn’t be a womanizer if women didn’t exist.
Are we really in the post-presidential election where blatant sexism is a trait rather than a flaw?
Hopefully not.
Beautiful, brilliant, and the family member most like Jackie O, Mary still suffered greatly, especially when Bobby began dating “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines — she herself was the focus of a recent portrait of New York Times Magazine. Actually a tongue bath.
When Mary became decompensated and threatened to lose her home and children, Bobby interrupted her. Sometimes she had to ask co-parents at her children’s school for $20 to buy groceries or gas.
“Someone who lives on the fifth floor in the Bronx with no elevator and has cash could do more than they can,” a source told the New York Post. The deprivation of their funds, which included a court-approved $20,000 monthly credit card, was intended to “squeeze and panic them.”
To add to Mary’s agony, Bobby moved into a house only a few hundred yards away and he and Cheryl started making the rounds.
Mary (above right) suffered from RFK Jr.’s incessant womanizing, according to those who knew her well. He kept sex diaries, which Mary discovered and gave to a trusted friend. If anything happens to her, maybe the world will know who we’re really dealing with.
Beautiful, brilliant, and the family member most like Jackie O, Mary still suffered greatly, especially when Bobby began dating ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ actress Cheryl Hines (above right) — she herself was the focus of one recently New York Times Magazine Profile. Actually a tongue bath.
Hines began tweeting about all the fun she was having with Mary’s kids and Mary’s friends at Mary’s local haunts or events she would otherwise have been invited to.
Some of Hines’ tweets, which the actress removed after Mary’s suicide, were posted weeks before Mary was found hanging in her barn.
About Mary’s second son:
“10-year-old Aidan’s rabid, out of control New England zeal.” [sic] “Kennedy almost made me a Pats fan.”
On a birthday party she attended with Bobby for Glenn Close, a dear friend of Mary’s: “I have to tell #GlenClose.” [sic] What an inspiration she has always been to me.’
At the burger joint in Westchester, NY, where Mary often took her kids: ‘At Armonk’s Burgers & Shakes in Armonk, NY.’ So, sooooo good.’
How, I ask, could the New York Times reporter who portrayed Hines not ask about it? Aren’t these important characterological details?
Instead, we witness what is perhaps Hines’ greatest achievement: that of a political wife who is surprised that the eponymous scion of a martyred politician, descended from America’s most famous political dynasty, is actually running for president.
“I haven’t really spent any time in that space,” Hines said of the prospect of becoming first lady, using the nonsense language of Instagram self-help posts, “because we’re not there yet.”
Well, if your husband is running, I think it’s time for a thorough review.
After Mary’s death, Bobby allowed friends, relatives, and at least one sympathetic Kennedy historian to tell his version of events: Mary was a drunk, hysterical, insane woman. It was a miracle that he survived the marriage at all.
The biggest smear job came through a Newsweek cover story branding Mary’s suicide as part of the Kennedy curse – oh, what horrible things keep happening to this family!
Somehow, the author got access to a sealed 60-page affidavit in which Bobby accused Mary of having a personality disorder, punching him in front of her son, and drunkenly empathizing with their dinner party.
Mary’s siblings called the report “quirky” and “full of lies.”
After Mary’s death, Bobby allowed friends, relatives, and at least one sympathetic Kennedy historian to tell his version of events: Mary was a drunk, hysterical, insane woman. It was a miracle that he survived the marriage at all.
We witness perhaps Hines’ greatest achievement: that of a political wife who is surprised that the eponymous scion of a martyred politician, descended from America’s most famous political dynasty, is actually running for president. (Above) Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy with children
“Mary has no history of depression,” a friend told People magazine. “She became a troubled person as a result of the divorce.”
Still, Bobby went to court to fight for her remains against Mary’s siblings who hated him.
After winning, he had Maria buried on the Kennedy family’s property in Massachusetts and the media was given free photos of Maria’s coffin.
Less than two months later, without the necessary permission, Kennedy secretly had Mary’s coffin exhumed from her grave and buried alone on the other side of the cemetery, without a headstone.
He didn’t tell her siblings. In my opinion this was his final revenge – if Mary dared to humiliate him by killing herself – because life is all about Bobby Jr – he would do the same to her in death.
When asked why, Bobby replied through a representative. “The grave now sits on a sunny slope,” said forceful publicist Ken Sunshine, “in the shade of an oak tree in an area that will accommodate their children and other family members.”
Wow. Bobby moved the grave to give her some sun!
Here’s the real question dancing around in the media: Is Bobby Kennedy sick?
I think of course yes. But not for the reasons the media finds so fascinating: the anti-vax stuff, the water supply that turns children into transgender people, Big Pharma responsible for school shootings, Russia “acting in good faith” in Ukraine. and lobbying for the release of his father’s assassin from prison, his penchant for hoarding dead animals in his car (Town & Country profile, 2021).
This is a man who berated the mother of his four children in the most public way that made her life miserable and led the nation to believe he was the victim.
In my opinion – and I’m not alone – he’s not just mentally ill. He’s a bad man.
The Kennedys have this generational disease, their vile treatment of women.
Why don’t we talk about it?
How come no one draws parallels with Bobby’s uncle Ted, the last famous Democrat to challenge a sitting Democratic president — you know, the uncle who left a young campaign worker named Mary Jo Kopechne to die alone after she met Chappaquiddick from fell off a bridge?
The party line on Ted has always been that he was terrible at women in his private life but great at making laws for us.
Tell that to the women he destroyed, including his wife Joan, and portray them as the drunken family with political responsibilities. Sound familiar?
Women are scapegoats for Kennedy men.
And why isn’t anyone talking about how RFK Jr. wrongly blamed a black man and another mixed race man for the brutal sexual assault and murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in 1975?
It was a clear attempt to exonerate his cousin Michael Skakel, whose conviction for Moxley’s murder has since been overturned, thanks in large part to Kennedy’s own efforts.
In RFK Jr’s 2016 book, Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison For a Murder He Didn’t Commit, Kennedy claimed that two Bronx teenagers beat the girl to death.
Less than two months later, without the necessary permission, Kennedy secretly had Mary’s coffin exhumed from her grave and buried alone on the other side of the cemetery, without a headstone.
It was a clear attempt to exonerate his cousin Michael Skakel, whose conviction for Moxley’s murder has since been overturned, thanks in large part to Kennedy’s own efforts.
“I’m absolutely certain they did,” Kennedy said at the time. Prosecutors called the allegations “baseless.”
Only a vaunted liberal could get away with such uncompromising racism. Only Bobby Jr. could get away with being so thoughtless about the murder and the memory of young Martha. Did he care what that would do to her brother? Her mother?
Imagine a presidential candidate on the right vigorously defending a family member by saying, ‘Hey – look at these two random non-white guys.’ They did it.’
The media would howl.
RFK Jr. famously said he would talk to anyone during his campaign.
How about a journalist to ask a few pointed questions, Bobby? I am always at your disposal.