RFK Jr. Tells Tucker Carlson He’s Been Asked by Trump ‘To Help Pick the People Who Will Be Running the Government’
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Tucker Carlson on Monday that he had been asked by former President Donald Trump “to help pick the people who will be running the government” in a potential second Trump administration.
After Carlson asked Kennedy what he would be doing “from now until election day” following his endorsement of Trump last week, Kennedy said, “I’m gonna work to get him elected, and, you know, I’m working with the campaign. We’re working on policy issues together.”
He revealed, “I’ve been asked to go on to the transition team and, you know, to help pick the pick who will be running the government, and I’m looking forward to that,” before adding, “I’m gonna fight. I don’t know what would happen to me if we lose.”
When Bobby Kennedy endorsed Donald Trump last week, he burned his boats. There’s no turning back for him, or for American politics. Here’s his first interview since that happened.
(0:42) RFK Jr. Endorsing Donald Trump
(11:26) Censorship and Pavel Durov’s Arrest
(34:56) America’s… pic.twitter.com/AOQULEvZeX— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 26, 2024
“What happens, if he loses, to you?” pressed Carlson, to which Kennedy replied, “I never really think about that. What I think is, okay, here’s what I gotta do today, and you know, get up every day and say, ‘Reporting for duty, sir,’ and then go do that.”
He concluded, “You know, nothing’s a crisis, everything’s a task, right? So that’s what I’m gonna be. Kind of a happy warrior. I know what I have to do so I’m gonna do it.”
During the same interview, Kennedy told Carlson that while he would be interested in being selected as Trump’s director of the CIA, he would never be able to get confirmation from the Senate.
Asked whether he would take the position, Kennedy said, “Yes, I would, but I would never get Senate confirmation. As you know, the intelligence agencies are protected by very, very powerful committees in the Senate and the House that are all read into the project, and the people who serve on those committees are people who would, you know, they would not– they’re safeguarding that directorship and I would be very, very dangerous for those committees.”
Kennedy announced on Friday that he would be suspending his independent presidential campaign and endorsing Trump for president in a move which resulted in outrage from volunteers and backlash from members of his own family.
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