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Twist: RFK Jr. says he placed a dead bear in Central Park, staging an accident

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Twist: RFK Jr. says he placed a dead bear in Central Park, staging an accident

With its twists and turns and its intrigue, the 2024 election is playing out like a TV miniseries. In an effort to keep ratings high, Sunday’s episode just delivered a bizarre confession from supporting character Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Heard of “jumping the shark”? Call it “jumping the bear.”

Apparently in the race to beat a future report of The New Yorker, Kennedy admitted to abandoning a dead bear in Central Park in 2014 and staging the scene to make it appear as if the cub had been killed in a collision with a bicycle. In a video posted to social media, Kennedy is seen relaxing in a kitchen, sharing the colorful anecdote with actress Rosanne Barr.

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Kennedy said he was heading to the Hudson Valley for a falcon hunt when a pickup truck in front of him struck and killed the cub. “I stopped, picked up the bear and put it in the back of my truck because I was going to skin it. “It was in great condition and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator,” he said, noting that New York state allows people to get a “roadkill bear tag.”

But he and his hunting party had such a productive and enjoyable hunt that they ended up staying late. That kept him from getting home to Westchester, because he had dinner at Peter Luger Steak House in New York City. The dinner took a long time, and he had a flight to catch, which kept him from going to his refrigerator.

Not wanting to leave the bear to rot in his car, the then 60-year-old man Kennedy chose to turn his riddle into a sophomore farce that would capitalize on a controversy It was New York City at the time, when several people had been killed or seriously injured using newly installed bike lanes. Luckily, Kennedy had an old bicycle in his car that someone had given him to get rid of.

“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me and thought it was a good idea,” Kennedy said. “I said, ‘Let’s put this bear in Central Park and pretend he got hit by a bicycle.’ The independent candidate He said he and his unnamed companions thought it would be “fun for whoever found it.”

Kennedy then recounted his shock and anxiety when He woke up the next morning to find that his stunt had not only caused a huge media sensation, but also intense police surveillance:

The next day it was on all the TV channels. It was the front page of all the newspapers, I turned on the TV and There was a mile of yellow tape and there were 20 police carsThere were helicopters flying overhead. And I thought: “Oh my God, what have I done?”

There were people on TV in Tyvek suits with gloves, lifting the bike and saying they were going to take it to Albany to get fingerprinted. I was worried because my fingerprints were all over that bike.

Kennedy was recently contacted by The New Yorker Fact-checkers confirmed the story was true. “You know, this is going to be a bad story,” Kennedy said, as Barr and someone else in the room burst into laughter at the end of the video.

In a strange coincidence, some of the New York Times’ The 2014 report on the discovery of the 45-pound, approximately 6-month-old bear was provided by Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of RFK Jr.’s first cousin Caroline Kennedy. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation later concluded that the bear was killed in a collision with a motor vehicle.

According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, Kennedy is the first choice of 8% of voters. Last week, his campaign said that in working to secure ballot access, it had surpassed 1 million signatures collected, claiming that was more than any other presidential candidate in American history. “The campaign says it has now reached the required signature threshold in 42 states representing 480 electoral votes.

Meanwhile, watch for Democratic talking heads to denounce the bear story as an indicator of Kennedy’s unfitness for high office, while Most normal people will just find this funny.

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