The Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed Monday that they’re investigating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for an incident involving the alleged decapitation of a lifeless whale carcass.
NOAA is investigating Kennedy for allegedly decapitating a lifeless whale carcass and transporting its head residence almost twenty years in the past, according to CNN. A NOAA spokesperson confirmed to CNN that there’s an investigation however declined to supply additional feedback, citing the company’s coverage of not discussing open investigations.
After Kennedy suspended his presidential campaign in August and endorsed former President Donald Trump, the incident resurfaced as a consequence of a 2012 interview along with his daughter, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, in City & Nation Journal that not too long ago appeared once more on social media. Within the interview, she described an episode the place her father used a chainsaw to sever the top of a lifeless whale on a seashore close to their household residence in Cape Cod and transported it to New York.
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“Each time we accelerated on the freeway, whale juice would pour into the home windows of the automobile, and it was the rankest factor on the planet,” Kick advised the journal. “All of us had plastic baggage over our heads with mouth holes lower out, and other people on the freeway have been giving us the finger, however that was simply regular day-to-day stuff for us.” (RELATED: ‘They’ve Lost Their Soul’: Former Running Mate Nicole Shanahan Blasts Democratic Party Over Treatment Of RFK Jr.)
Following the general public scrutiny, the Middle for Organic Variety Motion Fund urged NOAA to look into Kennedy’s actions, and argued that they may have compromised scientific analysis, CNN acknowledged. In response, Kennedy mentioned that he has by no means killed a whale, NBC Information reported.
“I obtained a letter from the Nationwide Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they have been investigating me for accumulating a whale specimen 20 years in the past,” Kennedy mentioned throughout a marketing campaign occasion for former President Donald Trump, NBC Information reported. “That is all concerning the weaponization of our authorities towards political opponents.”
NOAA and Kennedy didn’t instantly reply to the Day by day Caller Information Basis’s request for remark.
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