Unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ripped CNN debate moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper Tuesday for “cheerleading” COVID lockdowns — earlier than praising former President Donald Trump because the “best debater in trendy American historical past.”
Kennedy, 70, predicted on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” that neither Bash nor Tapper would ask “robust questions” of both the forty fifth or forty sixth US presidents resulting from their assist for each administrations’ pandemic-era insurance policies.
“On a few of the largest, most monumental choices throughout their presidency, just like the lockdown of the American public, the CNN announcers have been cheerleaders for these lockdowns,” RFK Jr. advised host Piers Morgan.
“That shifted $4.3 trillion in wealth to this new oligarchy of billionaires, that destroyed the center class on this nation, that shut down 3.3 million companies with no due course of — our church buildings — made us put on masks,” he went on.
“Jake Tapper was cheerleading for that. So do you suppose he’s gonna ask them any of the robust questions?” Kennedy requested.
“ what? I really do,” Morgan interrupted. “I feel Jake’s an important journalist. I’ve labored with him for CNN. I feel Dana Bash is, too. I feel that, yeah, in fact they’ll. I feel they’ll really do an excellent job.”
Requested later who he thought would win, Kennedy answered: “I don’t wish to make predictions, however I’d predict that Trump will win.”
“I feel Donald Trump is sweet,” he went on, earlier than evaluating the 78-year-old’s verbal sparring prowess with former President Abraham Lincoln.
“He may win a prize for the best debater in trendy American historical past, in all probability since Lincoln-Douglas,” Kennedy stated, referring to the epochal 1858 showdowns between Lincoln, then a Republican candidate for Senate from Illinois, and his Democratic opponent, Stephen Douglas.
“I’m saying that primarily based upon watching him run by means of 16 Republicans one by one [in 2016] and simply demolish them,” he defined. “He’s extraordinarily entertaining to look at. He has a capability to make up details after which imagine them completely — and to promote them to the gang.”
“He’s a superb entertainer and nothing fazes him,” Kennedy added. “I don’t suppose it’s attainable for President Biden to beat him in that debate.”
Morgan then requested whether or not, within the occasion of a “prepare wreck” debate, it might be probably that Biden can be eliminated and one other Democrat despatched to “parachute” in earlier than the occasion’s August nominating conference.
“I feel that’s attainable,” responded RFK Jr., who left the Democratic Get together to run for president as an impartial. “The conference could be the place to do it.”
“They’ve the super-delegates who’re in line, mainly. And they’re those who would select the subsequent nominee,” he stated. “So I feel, you realize, they’d in all probability — a few of them would welcome that probability.”
The Kennedy scion had earlier stated that “no one” must be attending the controversy below the standards that CNN established — and claimed that the cable community “colluded” with Trump and Biden “to exclude the Presidential Debate Fee” from operating the occasion.
“Since my uncle’s premier debate with Nixon, this has by no means occurred,” RFK Jr. lamented, referring to the primary televised debate in 1960 between the Democrat then-Sen. John F. Kennedy and Republican then-Vice President Richard Nixon.
“And the worrying factor is that the [Democratic National Committee] and the [Republican National Committee] are placing tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} into CNN,” he added. “So there’s a battle there.”
Requested whether or not he would take a job in both a Trump or Biden administration, Kennedy advised Morgan later that “I intend to win the race.”
“I’m not in search of a job in authorities,” he added, as polls present him in a distant third place nationally, in response to the RealClearPolitics survey aggregator.
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