‘He Likes Him’: Maggie Haberman Says Trump-RFK Jr. Alliance Works Because They’re ‘Two Very Transactional People’

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said Friday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former President Donald Trump are a perfect fit to team up as they are both “transactional” in nature.

The political scion suspended his presidential bid Friday afternoon and put his weight behind Trump during remarks in which he claimed the Democratic Party and the media had colluded to rig the election against his third-party bid.

Trump was quick to accept the endorsement and planned to meet with Kennedy at a rally in Arizona Friday night,

Haberman joined CNN’s The Situation Room to discuss the endorsement and its potential impacts on the 2024 election. She noted Kennedy reportedly shopped his allegiance to Democrats before endorsing Trump but noted there was little if no interest on the other side in meeting him.

Host Wolf Blitzer quoted a report from The New Yorker claiming Kennedy had previously described Trump as a “terrible human,” the “worst president ever,” and that he felt the former president was “barely human” and “probably a sociopath.”

Blitzer asked Haberman, “So how did this unlikely endorsement today of Trump come about? Haberman replied:

So, Wolf, these are two very transactional people and Robert Kennedy Jr. Has been looking around trying to make some kind of an endorsement deal with both candidates. The Washington Post reported recently that he had approached the Harris campaign about possibly supporting her and then getting a meeting and there was no meeting, but Trump has been much more receptive.

Remember, these are two people, Kennedy and Trump, who met during Trump’s 2017 transition. Bobby Kennedy claimed that Trump was going to appoint him to some kind of a vaccine commission. And then Trump’s aides quietly distanced Trump from it, but Trump is open to having discussions with him. He likes him. Trump is a credentialist and he likes the Kennedy name.

Haberman theorized Kennedy made his endorsement Friday as a “way to be relevant” throughout the rest of the campaign.

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