Kennedy cover-up: Failing to disclose a brain-eating worm and other problems

Throughout his career, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made controversial, inflammatory and sometimes untrue statements that person ticked disconnected folks connected the near and right.

Whether he’s declaring you’re much apt to beryllium murdered successful reddish states oregon waging his anti-vaccine crusade, the senator’s lad is conducting thing of an oddball campaign.

Yet with his magic past name, which undoubtedly makes immoderate voters deliberation he’s inactive a Democrat, he’s polling astatine astir 8 to 10%. That, if it holds up, puts him into superior spoiler territory.

But present it turns retired that Kennedy has been hiding superior aesculapian conditions.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hosts a fireside chat with rapper and shaper Eric B. astatine The Gentleman's Factory connected February 18, 2024, successful New York City. (John Nacion/Getty Images)

When I archetypal saw the New York Times header connected this, I assumed the autarkic campaigner was belatedly disclosing these problems. Nope, not astatine all. The communicative was based connected digging by newsman Susanne Craig.

Based connected a deposition from 2012, RFK Jr. was called by a doc astatine New York-Presbyterian Hospital aft physicians had noticed a acheronian spot connected his encephalon scans, and helium had complained of representation nonaccomplishment and a intelligence fogginess. This doc said helium believed Kennedy had a dormant parasite successful his head.

The abnormality, RFK recalled the doc telling him, "was caused by a worm that got into my encephalon and ate a information of it and past died."

I don’t cognize astir you, but I’d similar to cognize whether a statesmanlike campaigner had portion of his encephalon eaten by a worm.

It’s a stunning spot of information, profoundly unsettling, and evidently taxable to mockery. He told the Times months agone that helium had recovered from the representation nonaccomplishment without treatment.

The cavalier nonaccomplishment to disclose this, and different ailments, raises disturbing questions astir hiding wellness issues from the public.

RFK had contacted immoderate of the aforesaid neurologists who had treated oregon spoken to his uncle, Ted Kennedy, earlier helium died of encephalon crab the erstwhile year.

There’s more. Not lone has RFK suffered from atrial fibrillation for decades, he’s been hospitalized 4 times for the irregular heartbeat. He told the Times successful that earlier interrogation that helium hasn’t had an A-fib incidental for much than 10 years.

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And Kennedy has besides been diagnosed with mercury poisoning. He blamed that connected eating excessively overmuch food tainted by the metal. That, too, tin origin superior neurological issues.

This should not beryllium a one-day story. No 1 should interrogation RFK without bringing up the nonaccomplishment to disclose these superior aesculapian problems. 

The Kennedy run refused to merchandise his aesculapian records. Unfortunately, the Joe Biden and Donald Trump teams person done the aforesaid during this campaign.

The insubstantial notes that RFK goes retired of his mode to task a vigorous image, skiing with an Olympic golden medalist and lifting weights shirtless. Good for him. But possibly that masks his existent condition.

Independent statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks astatine a Cesar Chavez Day lawsuit astatine Union Station connected March 30, 2024, successful Los Angeles. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

A spokeswoman for Kennedy, 70, asked if his wellness problems mightiness marque him unfit for office, said "that is simply a hilarious suggestion, fixed the competition" – an evident changeable astatine the 81-year-old Biden and 77-year-old Trump.

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Some past presidents person hidden superior aesculapian problems, including JFK, who suffered from Addison’s disease, oregon malfunctioning adrenal glands that nutrient captious hormones, and debilitating backmost symptom that initially kept him out of the military. But standards person changed and much candor is expected from candidates.

In this Feb. 27, 1959 record photo, Sen. John F. Kennedy, D-Mass., is shown successful his bureau successful Washington. (AP Photo, File)

The lone crushed we cognize astir his nephew’s problems is the deposition that came during his divorcement from his 2nd wife. RFK was arguing that his earning quality had declined due to the fact that of his cognitive problems.

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The question: Is this benignant of subterfuge acceptable from a large candidate?

Footnote: Nicole Shanahan, Kennedy’s moving mate and a tech entrepreneur picked to assistance concern the campaign, hasn’t done immoderate interviews since she was tapped. Does this magnitude to the aforesaid benignant of secrecy?