Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. launched a weird video on X Sunday, wherein he tells comic Roseanne Barr concerning the time he dumped a useless bear cub in New York Metropolis’s Central Park a decade prior.
Within the video, RFK and Barr are located round a dinner desk in a house, because the impartial candidate tells his story. He explains that he is making an attempt to get forward of a narrative The New Yorker is engaged on.
RFK says he was taking a gaggle of individuals falconing in Goshen, New York, a couple of two hour-drive north of New York Metropolis.
RFK tells Barr he was on his manner there when a lady in a van in entrance of him hit a younger bear and killed it.
“So, I pulled over and picked up the bear and put him at the back of my van as a result of I used to be going to pores and skin the bear… and put the meat in my fridge,” RFK says, as a visibly shocked Barr listens. He notes that the apply is authorized in New York State below sure circumstances.
RFK says he continued hawking together with his group of acquaintances and ended up staying late. As a substitute of going residence, RFK says he had a dinner obligation in New York Metropolis.
RFK then admits, with out elaborating, that he needed to go the airport after dinner and couldn’t go residence.
“I didn’t need to go away the bear in my automotive as a result of that may have been dangerous,” RFK says.
He recounts how on the time – this being 2014 – there had been “a collection of bicycle accidents,” a few of which, resulted within the deaths of a number of individuals.
RFK tells Barr he had had an previous bike in his automotive and got here up with the thought to place the bear in Central Park and “make it appear to be he bought hit by a motorbike.”
“So, everyone thought, ‘That’s an incredible concept.’ So, we went and did that,” RFK says, clarifying that he hadn’t been consuming, not like his acquaintances. “And we thought it will be amusing for whoever discovered it.”
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The prank apparently bought seen the following day. In accordance with RFK, “it was on each tv station. It was on the entrance web page of each paper.”
“I turned on the TV and there was a mile of yellow tape. And there have been 20 cop automobiles. There have been helicopters flying over it. And I used to be like, ‘Oh my God. What did I do?'” RFK says, noting that his prints “have been throughout that bike.”
“Fortunately the story died after awhile and it stayed useless for a decade,” RFK says.
The presidential candidate tells Barr that The New Yorker had “in some way discovered about” the incident and is planning to publish an article.
“It’s going to be a nasty story,” RFK says within the video, eliciting laughter from Barr and others within the room.
“Trying ahead to seeing the way you spin this one,” RFK captioned on the video posted on X.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to RFK’s marketing campaign and The New Yorker for remark.