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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mentioned on Saturday he’s being investigated over a decades-old story that he decapitated a whale and transported its cranium throughout state strains.
Kennedy made the admission throughout a marketing campaign occasion for former President Trump, saying he had obtained a letter final week. The report comes weeks after a left-wing environmental group resurfaced the whale story and referred to as for an investigation.
“I obtained a letter from the Nationwide Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they had been investigating me for gathering a whale specimen 20 years in the past,” Kennedy mentioned Saturday.
“That is all in regards to the weaponization of our authorities towards political opponents,” he added.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dealing with an investigation right into a story that he as soon as transported a whale cranium throughout state strains. (CBS/Screenshot)
Kennedy didn’t provide particulars in regards to the incident, but it surely first grew to become public because of a 2012 interview with Kennedy’s daughter, Kick Kennedy, with City and Nation Journal.
Within the interview, Kick describes her father slicing the pinnacle off of a lifeless whale and strapping it to the roof of their car, earlier than driving from a seaside in Massachusetts to Mount Kisco, New York.
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The left-wing group, the Heart for Organic Variety Motion Fund, had argued the lifeless animal was protected by the Marine Mammal Safety and Endangered Species, making it unlawful to own any a part of it.
Kennedy argues left-wing teams are attempting to “weaponize” the federal government towards him. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Pictures)
They additional claimed that it was probably a felony violation of the 1900 Lacey Act, “which prohibits the transportation of any wildlife, lifeless or alive, that was diminished to possession in violation of any state, federal or worldwide regulation or legislation.”
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“Each time we accelerated on the freeway, whale juice would pour into the home windows of the automotive, and it was the rankest factor on the planet,” Kick advised the journal, saying the incident occurred someday round 1994.
“All of us had plastic baggage over our heads with mouth holes lower out, and folks on the freeway had been giving us the finger, however that was simply regular day-to-day stuff for us,” she added.
Kennedy dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed former President Trump final month. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Pictures)
The Heart for Organic Variety resurfaced the story simply days after Kennedy withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Trump.
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The whale incident will not be the one latest controversy involving Kennedy and lifeless animals. He additionally admitted to dumping the physique of a lifeless bear in New York Metropolis’s Central Park over a decade in the past.
Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox Information Digital protecting nationwide politics and main breaking information occasions. Ship tricks to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
