Lara Trump responded to Caroline Kennedy’s latest assault on her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling the feedback, “part of that political game.”
Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, posted a video studying a scathing letter to senators about her member of the family, through which she referred to as Trump’s nominee to guide the Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS) a “predator” who’s distorting his father’s legacy to “advance his own failed presidential campaign.”
Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and former co-chair of the Republican Nationwide Committee, advised NewsNation’s “CUOMO” that she believes the letter is simply “sour grapes” from a household of longtime Democrats.
“There is no doubt that the reason Caroline Kennedy came out with this video in the time frame that she did was because she was probably encouraged by the Democrats to do it,” she stated.
The feedback come forward of Kennedy’s look earlier than the Senate Well being, Training, Labor and Pensions Committee this week, a part of the trail to affirmation.
Trump advised NewsNation she would not assume Caroline Kennedy’s feedback will change his affirmation possibilities.
“I think that everybody should watch the confirmation hearing, listen to the answers that he delivers, and take them at face value … So, I don’t think it will be any different,” she stated.
Caroline Kennedy calls RFK Jr. a ‘predator’
In a video posted to social platform X, Kennedy stated that her cousin “lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience” to qualify him to guide the nation’s well being businesses — however added that his “personal qualities” pose “even greater concern.”
“I have known Bobby my whole life; we grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator,” she wrote in a letter to the chairmen and rating members of the Senate Finance and HELP committees.
“I watched his youthful brothers and cousins observe him down the trail of drug habit,” she continued. “His basement, his storage, and his dorm room had been the facilities the place medicine had been accessible, and he loved exhibiting off how he put child chickens and mice within the blender to feed his hawks. It was typically a perverse sense of despair and violence.”
She added that she hadn’t beforehand denounced his nomination as a result of she had been U.S. ambassador to Australia and was additionally reluctant to publicly criticize a member of the family.
NewsNation companion The Hill contributed to this report. Each retailers are owned by Nexstar Media Group.
