RFK Jr. Claims He Declined Offer to Be Trump’s Running Mate: ‘I Am Against President Trump’

LEFT: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) RIGHT: Donald Trump (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump offered him a spot on the GOP ticket on Monday after a PAC supporting the Trump campaign unveiled a new website bashing Kennedy.

That website, owned and operated by Make America Great Again, Inc., which can be found at https://www.radicalf-ingkennedy.com, calls Kennedy a “radical f***ing Kennedy” and knocks him for supporting high taxes, the Green New Deal, a ban on assault weapons and more.

Kennedy responded to the effort to paint him as a  member of the far-left by claiming to have been offered the chance to be Trump’s right hand man on the campaign trail, and potentially in the White House.

“President Trump calls me an ultra-left radical. I’m soooo liberal that his emissaries asked me to be his VP,” wrote Kennedy on X. “I respectfully declined the offer. I am against President Trump, and President Biden can’t win. Judging by his new website, it looks like President Trump knows who actually can beat him.”

President Trump calls me an ultra-left radical. I’m soooo liberal that his emissaries asked me to be his VP. I respectfully declined the offer.

I am against President Trump, and President Biden can’t win.

Judging by his new website, it looks like President Trump knows who…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 15, 2024

Kennedy had previously raised eyebrows by declaring that he was “proud” of the fact that Trump liked him in 2023. Around the same time, Trump described Kennedy as a “good man” whose “heart” was “in the right place.”

More recently, however, Trump has emphasized Kennedy’s left-wing credentials in an effort to ensure that he siphons votes away from President Joe Biden rather than himself.

“RFK Jr. is, as you know, the most radical left candidate in the race. He’s more so than the Green Party, he’s more so than even Crooked Joe Biden,” argued Trump in a recent video released on Truth Social. “But he’s got some nice things about him, I happen to like him. Unfortunately, he is about the Green New Scam because he believes in that and a lot of people don’t.”