Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter-in-law took a non-public assembly with John Ratcliffe, President-elect Trump’s choose to run the CIA, in an obvious bid for a high-ranking place inside the company, The Washington Submit reported.
The Submit reported that Amaryllis Fox Kennedy met with Ratcliffe to debate serving as deputy director of the company, which she has harshly and brazenly criticized.
The Submit cited “people briefed on the discussions,” who indicated curiosity from Trump himself in having the youthful Kennedy in a nationwide safety function in his administration after working her father-in-law’s unbiased presidential marketing campaign.
Following the newspaper’s reporting, Fox Kennedy, who beforehand labored as a CIA officer, took to the social platform X detailing what she perceives as grave institutional flaws inside the company. In a prolonged submit, she described a “drastic falloff in the quality and quantity of our human intelligence” over the previous decade and a half concerning its dealing with of international governments akin to Russia, China and Iran.
“This is the direct result of political appointees weaponizing the Agency against the very American citizens it was created to defend,” she wrote.
Fox Kennedy, who’s married to Kennedy’s son, went on to lament “members of the intelligence community” who’ve, in her view, pushed a particular political agenda about Trump’s dealings with Russia — the GOP-dubbed “Russia hoax” — and different partisan narratives.
She additionally appeared to mock the rising pushback amongst some within the intelligence house about having a member of the Kennedy household close to the company a long time after fringe conspiracy theories concerning the CIA’s assassination of former President John F. Kennedy didn’t get traction with the American public.
“A Kennedy at CIA, they fret. No more weaponization of our intelligence services, they complain. She opposes censorship, they whine. She doesn’t believe in arming terrorists, they moan. She thinks coups and wars should be avoided, they cry. She believes in the President, they despair. A DJT loyalist at Langley, they wail. She must be stopped at all costs!” she wrote.
In line with the Submit, the Republican president-elect, who has already tapped unconventional figures for main authorities jobs, has expressed being “impressed” with Fox Kennedy after assembly together with her and others at his Palm Seashore, Fla., membership Mar-a-Lago.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was briefly being pushed by some Trump allies for a prime CIA place earlier than finally being chosen to guide the Division of Well being and Human Providers. Since then, Kennedy’s been privately fixated on presenting another story with out proof concerning the dying of his uncle, the previous president.
Axios reported this week that “RFK Jr. has been telling people that Fox Kennedy … would help get to the bottom of the JFK assassination,” citing “two Republican sources.”
The concept has already raised considerations amongst Kennedy’s family, which has been vehemently in opposition to his new alignment with Trump. Within the newest signal of pushback, his cousin Jack Schlossberg referred to as Kennedy a “Russian spy,” linking to the Axios report on X.
“.@RobertKennedyJr you are so obviously a Russian spy … You all think I’m joking. Hahahaha,” he wrote.
