(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Much to the chagrin of those who were hoping for a viable third-party candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been in the news this week over his links to multimillionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Newsweek published a story on Wednesday, featuring comments from Kennedy about his dealings with the presumably deceased sex trafficker.
A Kennedy spokesperson reportedly told Newsweek that he had “flown one time on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane. It was in 1993 from [New York City] to Palm Beach [Florida] to visit RFK Jr.’s mom for Easter.”
The spokesperson reportedly added that the private jet trip was facilitated through Kennedy’s then-wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who was apparently friendly with Epstein’s partner, Ghislaine Maxwell. Richardson Kennedy passed away in 2012, and RFK Jr. has been married to Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines since 2014.
“Mary, Kennedy’s wife, and two of their kids were on the flight,” the representative told Newsweek. “Mary knew Epstein’s girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who learned that they were going to Palm Beach for Easter and offered their family a ride.”
However, what the spokesperson told Newsweek contradicts what Kennedy has reportedly told investigative journalist Whitney Webb for her Epstein magnum opus, One Nation Under Blackmail.
In that book, Webb quoted Kennedy saying he flew on Epstein’s jet twice—not once, as Newsweek reported.
“In one instance, the flight was part of a pre-planned fossil hunting trip to South Dakota, which he believed had been Ghislaine’s idea as Epstein had appeared to only have attended ‘grudgingly,’” Webb wrote.
“On that trip, Kennedy remembered that Epstein ‘did not mingle with us and hardly spoke and did not participate in the fossil hunt.”
According to Webb’s book, Epstein had a problem with Kennedy’s “rambunctious children.” Epstein purportedly ordered the flight to land in Chicago and deplaned so he could make his own way home.
A blonde was waiting for Epstein at planeside in Chicago, and Kennedy remembered that Maxwell was in “silent tears” after Epstein’s abrupt departure.
The other trip described in Webb’s book seems to be the same one reported by Newsweek.
Remarking on Kennedy changing his tune, Webb said: “I am very concerned that he told me in an interview for my book he was on the plane twice, but now is saying it was once.”
i am very concerned that he told me in an interview for my book he was on the plane twice, but now is saying it was once.
— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) November 3, 2023
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
