- RFK Jr. said in a 2012 divorce deposition that doctors found a dead worm in his brain.
- But the longtime presidential candidate isn’t afraid of these “brain worms.”
- “I propose eating 5 more brain worms while beating President Trump and President Biden in a debate,” he said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have once claimed to have a dead worm in his brain, but the independent presidential candidate apparently isn’t afraid of these little creatures.
Kennedy said Wednesday that he was confident in his ability to win a presidential debate, even if he still ate a few “brain worms.”
“I propose eating 5 more brain worms while beating President Trump and President Biden in a debate,” Kennedy wrote in a statement. job on X.
“I am confident in the result, even with a handicap of six worms,” he said in a statement. next message.
Kennedy’s remarks come after The New York Times cited his health problems in a report published the same day. Kennedy claimed doctors found a dead worm in his brain when he filed for divorce in 2012, according to the Times.
Doctors, Kennedy said, told him that the dark spot that appeared on his brain scan was “caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate part of it and then died.”
Kennedy’s campaign press secretary, Stefanie Spear, earlier confirmed to BI that he had indeed been infected with a parasite 10 years ago, but had since recovered.
“Mr. Kennedy traveled extensively in Africa, South America and Asia as part of his work as an environmental advocate, and in one of those places he contracted a parasite,” he said. she declared.
The presidential candidate’s bizarre challenge Wednesday can be seen as a light-hearted attempt to put aside concerns about his health.
After all, the Kennedy campaign has long positioned the 70-year-old as more alert and fitter than his rivals — President Joe Biden, 81, and former President Donald Trump, 77.
Kennedy even posted a video of himself working out shirtless in June.
“Questioning Mr. Kennedy’s health is a hilarious suggestion, considering his competition,” Spear told BI.
Biden and Trump are aggressively fundraising to finance their 2024 war chests. But Kennedy has also won the support of rich and powerful backers, like billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey . He is also a candidate for the White House with Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google.
Kennedy’s growing notoriety appears to have ruffled the feathers of Trump, who told reporters last week that he would not debate the presidential candidate at length.
“He’s not a serious candidate,” Trump said of Kennedy on May 2. “They say he’s hurting Biden. I don’t know who he’s hurting; he might hurt me. I don’t know. His numbers are very low, and certainly not numbers he can argue with. He needs to increase his numbers before he can be credible.”
Representatives for Kennedy did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside of normal business hours.
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