Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter-in-law took a personal assembly with John Ratcliffe, President-elect Trump’s decide to run the CIA, in an obvious bid for a high-ranking place throughout the company, The Washington Put up reported.
The Put up reported that Amaryllis Fox Kennedy met with Ratcliffe to debate serving as deputy director of the company, which she has harshly and brazenly criticized.
The Put up cited “people briefed on the discussions,” who indicated curiosity from Trump himself in having the youthful Kennedy in a nationwide safety function in his administration after working her father-in-law’s unbiased presidential marketing campaign.
Following the newspaper’s reporting, Fox Kennedy, who beforehand labored as a CIA officer, took to the social platform X detailing what she perceives as grave institutional flaws throughout the company. In a prolonged submit, she described a “drastic falloff in the quality and quantity of our human intelligence” over the previous decade and a half relating to its dealing with of overseas governments equivalent to Russia, China and Iran.
“This is the direct result of political appointees weaponizing the Agency against the very American citizens it was created to defend,” she wrote.
Fox Kennedy, who’s married to Kennedy’s son, went on to lament “members of the intelligence community” who’ve, in her view, pushed a selected political agenda about Trump’s dealings with Russia — the GOP-dubbed “Russia hoax” — and different partisan narratives.
She additionally appeared to mock the rising pushback amongst some within the intelligence area about having a member of the Kennedy household close to the company a long time after fringe conspiracy theories in regards to the CIA’s assassination of former President John F. Kennedy did not get traction with the American public.
“A Kennedy at CIA, they fret. No more weaponization of our intelligence services, they complain. She opposes censorship, they whine. She doesn’t believe in arming terrorists, they moan. She thinks coups and wars should be avoided, they cry. She believes in the President, they despair. A DJT loyalist at Langley, they wail. She must be stopped at all costs!” she wrote.
In line with the Put up, the Republican president-elect, who has already tapped unconventional figures for main authorities jobs, has expressed being “impressed” with Fox Kennedy after assembly together with her and others at his Palm Seaside, Fla., membership Mar-a-Lago.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was briefly being pushed by some Trump allies for a high CIA place earlier than in the end being chosen to guide the Division of Well being and Human Companies. Since then, Kennedy’s been privately fixated on presenting an alternate story with out proof in regards to the demise of his uncle, the previous president.
Axios reported this week that “RFK Jr. has been telling people that Fox Kennedy … would help get to the bottom of the JFK assassination,” citing “two Republican sources.”
The thought has already raised issues amongst Kennedy’s circle of relatives, which has been vehemently towards his new alignment with Trump. Within the newest signal of pushback, his cousin Jack Schlossberg known as Kennedy a “Russian spy,” linking to the Axios report on X.
“.@RobertKennedyJr you are so obviously a Russian spy … You all think I’m joking. Hahahaha,” he wrote.
