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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s campaign manager said on Wednesday that New York campaign staff member Rita Palma was fired after she told GOP voters in a meeting last week that preventing President Joe Bidens victory was her number one priority and encouraged them to volunteer for former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
We terminated her contract for misrepresentation immediately upon seeing the longer video in which she gave an inaccurate job title and described a conversation that did not happen, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, Kennedys campaign manager and daughter-in-law, said in a post on X Wednesday evening.
Palma confirmed to CNN on Wednesday she is no longer employed by the campaign. She told CNN she believes Kennedy is still by far the best candidate and called the focus on her comments a distraction.
I dealt with the campaign honestly, Palma said. I have nothing to defend. Truth defends itself.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-york-campaign-staff-042112592.html
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Ocelot II
(122,615 posts)Jose Garcia
(3,037 posts)He is taking stances on issues that will take votes from Trump rather than Biden.
LetMyPeopleVote
(157,387 posts)This is the normal course for a coverup
hlthe2b
(107,612 posts)Maybe not word-for-word and every tactic, but I tend to believe she was not representing her solely personal attitudes. Her sin was that she was recorded and thus "caught."
Deuxcents
(20,698 posts)Think. Again.
(21,195 posts)"Too late, the cat's outta the bag".
kimbutgar
(23,996 posts)Who is he really running for?
Traurigkeit
(1,290 posts)wolfie001
(4,002 posts)From www.westsidespirit.com: This vaccination gap divides into those who are against all vaccines, and others who are only against the COVID vaccine. Rita Palma, 58, belongs to the former category. From Blue Point, Long Island, Palma is an officer in the New York chapter of the Childrens Health Defense, a nonprofit that OPPOSES ALL VACCINES FOR CHILDREN (boldface mine).
I choose to do other things that maintain a healthy body, I see no reason to invite anything else into it, says Palma, adding that keeping COVID at bay with a healthy diet, good sleep and exercise aligns with her religious, philosophical and medical convictions. You dont have to lean on a vaccine to call yourself healthy. Palma cites a religious belief held by some that injecting medication corrupts the holy nature of the mind, body and spirit, and is a betrayal of faith in Gods powers.
Palma counters with two points she staunchly holds onto: she believes that the vaccine has been associated with harm and death, and therefore is just as dangerous as COVID, and the mRNA vaccine changes your DNA.
Fits the RFK Jr profile to a T.
UTUSN
(73,174 posts)Cha
(306,795 posts)part Out loud.