RFK, Jr. Condemns the Violence After Assassination Attempt on Trump
"We're all Americans. We're better than this."
In an appearance on Newsmax TV’s “Newsmax Now” Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke out against the violence seen by millions on July 13, 2024:
"It's time for us all, every American, to take a step back, take a breath to understand that this moment is insane, that we're all complicit in it," Kennedy Jr. said during the interview.
"That all of us who fed into the vitriol, the hatred, the anger, that this is the ultimate culmination of that. And we need to all step back and start seeing each other once again as Americans, as part of a community, understand that America is better than this, and we now have the exemplary nation again, and that we need to come together in a spirit of love, of forgiveness, of reconciliation. And let's start healing our country again and use this terrible, terrible event, to start unifying again.
"And of course, to pray at this moment for President Trump and for his family, which are all going through an ordeal with which I'm very familiar," he added.
"And we have to understand again that it's linked in one way or another to the vitriol, to the anger, you know, to the disunity that that many of us have contributed to. And you know, when my uncle died, it was at a time of great division as well. And when my uncle landed in Dallas in November 22nd, 1963, there were posters all around Dallas that said wanted, 'Dead or Alive.' And they, the Dallas newspapers, were printing very, very poisonous articles about him and his death in some ways was linked to that wave of hatred.
"And the same was true with my dad. My dad was running in 1968, which was the most polarized, divisive time in American history since the American Civil War. You know, there was terrible anger on both sides, on all sides and part of the eruption of that anger was not only the riots we were seeing in the cities that year. ... We also saw Martin Luther King's assassination that year. And then two months later, my father's assassination and all of it is connected, and it's connected to each of us, and each of us needs to take responsibility for our own behavior. And you know, hopefully we can we can make something good of this."
Kennedy, like so many, feels that Trump and Joe Biden both have an important part to play in changing the tone of the campaign and political climate of today’s world.
"Stop empowering people who are filled with hatred and marginalized who are capable of taking these kinds of actions.”
"We all have an opportunity now to do what god wants us to do and turn evil into good and use this terrible, tragic incident to make something better for our country."
The Secret Service released a response to the incident:
