'This is the swamp': RFK Jr. says Trump picked J.D. Vance as a 'salute to the CIA'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance was controlled by the CIA after Donald Trump selected him as his running mate.
In a press conference on Sunday, Kennedy reacted to President Joe Biden's decision to withdraw from the 2024 race.
"And we have two crises, and they both derive from the same condition," Kennedy said. "And that condition is the emergence of the domination of corporate power over American democracy that accelerated beginning in 2010 with the Citizens United case that unleashed a tsunami of corporate money into the American political process."
Kennedy said "both parties" were captured by corporate money.
"On the Republican side, President [Trump] promised the last time around that he was going to drain the swamp, but instead, he came in, and he appointed a pharmaceutical lobbyist and a CEO to run HHS, Verizon lobbyists to run the FCC, a Goldman Sachs CEO to run the Treasury Department, an oil lobbyist to run the Interior Department, a coal lobbyist to run the Environmental Protection Agency, and so on."
"And only today, President Trump has announced that in his new administration, should he win this election, that Jamie Dimon will be his choice as Commerce Secretary, and that Larry Fink, the director of BlackRock, will run the Treasury Department," he noted.
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"This is the swamp. These are swamp creatures."
Kennedy also took a shot at Vance.
"And his pick as vice president is a salute to the CIA and to the intelligence community and to the military-industrial complex," he insisted. "Their gravy train is going to continue."