LAS VEGAS — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s supporters within the swing state of Nevada are nonplussed about his reported sexting scandal — and that’s excellent news for the presidential hopeful he’s backing, Donald Trump.
Kennedy, 70, obtained high billing at a Trump-sponsored “Restore America” rally in Vegas on Saturday evening, drawing a standing-room-only crowd who both didn’t care — or didn’t even know — in regards to the bombshell allegation.
“I’m not acquainted with that specific situation. I’m with lots of points, however that one’s new to me,” stated native Ken Czech, who was carrying a “Kennedy 24” t-shirt, a nod to the Kennedy scion’s failed try and run for president in November on the unbiased ticket.
Kennedy, 70, who’s married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines, 59, was allegedly concerned in a newly revealed, seamy sexting relationship with New York journal’s star political scribe Olivia Nuzzi, 31.
Czech stated he’s extra curious about Kennedy’s efforts to assist Trump kind a “unity celebration.’’
Retired Las Vegas court docket reporter Christine Johnson stated studies of the scandal meant little to her, too.
“I help RFK, and no matter his headlines are, they’re,” she stated of the politician, who threw his help behind Trump after backing out of the race. “Individuals are going to place their very own spin on it.”
Charles Atwood Hightower, a retired US military sergeant top quality and a contractor, stated these criticizing Kennedy’s non-public life ought to “drop useless.
“Your private life is your private life,” Hightower stated. “God gave you that proper.’’
Retired Decide Charles Weinberg slammed the sexting story as a joke.
“I imply, there’s a lot propaganda and false data out now. I believe this man’s a legit man,’’ he stated of Kennedy.
Lawyer Gregory Brittain of Redlands, Cali., stated that if the married Kennedy was “approaching to another person, that may be inappropriate.”
However “nobody is ideal, and least of all of the Democrats on the opposite aspect who do that, who, I used to be saying, the actual racists and the actual sexists are the Democrats who, who so strongly profess proper, possibly for girls and for the minorities,’’ Brittain stated.
The occasion, moderated by race-car driving character Danica Patrick at a Las Vegas rec heart, was Kennedy’s first public look because the scandal broke final week.
He didn’t deal with it on the occasion.
However he did put on his wedding ceremony ring, whereas Hines reportedly ditched hers for at the least a part of her Italian trip on the identical time.
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, an ex-Democrat from Hawaii, appeared with Kennedy on the rally for Trump, who faces an anticipated bruising battle in opposition to Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Gabbard informed The Publish it was the form of “distraction” she expects will improve as Election Day attracts close to.
“The elitist, everlasting Washington institution, the military-industrial complicated, the nationwide safety state, this complete cabal of the facility elite are so petrified of President Trump successful this election that they are going to proceed to do what they’ve been doing for years and throw the whole lot they probably can at it,” she stated.
“I do know that Bobby Kennedy is concentrated, as I’m, on saving our nation,’’ Gabbard stated.
“President Trump is concentrated on his mission of saving our nation, and none of us are going to permit any of those distractions to get in the best way.”