Former presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr decries ‘weaponization of our government’ over 1994 incident

Former presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr decries ‘weaponization of our government’ over 1994 incident

Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that he is being investigated by federal authorities for collecting the head from a decapitated whale carcass.

During a campaign event on Saturday for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, in Glendale, Arizona, the former independent presidential candidate said: “I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago.”

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Reports of the decapitation caught the attention of the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, which called on federal authorities to investigate Kennedy. In a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the environmental group said Kennedy “violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and possibly the Endangered Species Act, by illegally cutting the head off of a dead whale in or around 1994 in Hyannis Point, Massachusetts, and bringing it to his New York house”.

  • Heikki@lemm.ee
    32·
    3 days ago

    I love that the party of “We’re not weird”, have the weirdest spokespeople representing them, trying to convince voter they are not weird.

    First, the brain worm issue, then the bear wanted to eat incident, then the story of eating a dog/goat (he isn’t sure which it was), and now cutting the head of a dead whale he found, if patterns show anything probably to eat it.

    Also, why are people worried about immigrants eating animals? Litterally, a Kennedy bragged about it. I’m sure there are other weird ones he would have shared had he not seen the horrified looks on people faces.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      How the heck is one “city guy” getting this crazy with animals. If he hadn’t come forward with them, I’m not sure I would have believed it. What kind of drugs was he on, or how long was that worm munching away?