Conservative Radio Host Absolutely Destroys RFK Jr. — and the GOP: ‘Provoked His Wife to Kill Herself’ Then ‘Dug Up Her Body’

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Conservative radio star Erick Erickson minced no words in his condemnation of newly-minted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and the Republicans who voted for him — on Thursday.

Kennedy was confirmed to his post on Thursday despite concerns over his pro-choice beliefs and anti-vaccine advocacy. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the former longtime leader of the GOP conference, was the only Republican to vote against Kennedy.

To Erickson’s mind, he was also the only Republican senator to make the right decision.

“I appreciate @SenMcConnell being the only Republican brave enough to reject a man who provoked his wife to kill herself before having a showy funeral for her, then digging up her body and moving it out of the family plot once the cameras were gone,” which he deemed “a metaphor for the GOP.”

Kennedy’s second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, hung herself in 2012, not long after she discovered a personal journal kept by her husband during their marriage in which he documented sexual encounters with 37 women.

A serial philanderer, Kennedy’s most recent scandal involved former New York Magazine journalist Olivia Nuzzi.

Erickson has also expressed his discontent with Kennedy’s position on abortion, sharing a clip of Kennedy expressing support for elective abortions at any point in pregnancy and a column with the headline “RFK Jr. Is a Left-Wing Menace.”

The radio host wasn’t the only conservative displeased by Kennedy’s confirmation.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, for example, has spent the last several months lobbying against Kennedy.

Washington Examiner senior writer David Harsanyi, meanwhile, reserved some snark for McConnell’s critics, observing that Republicans were “attacking a polio survivor for not voting for the psycho who says the polio vaccine killed more people than polio itself.”