Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shares with JD Vance the quality of being weird, as shown in this story where he says that he was the one behind the mystery of a dead bear cub that was found 10 years ago.

Robert F Kennedy Jr released a bizarre video on Sunday in which he admitted that, a decade ago, he dumped a dead bear cub in New York City’s Central Park and staged the scene to make it look like a bicyclist had run over the animal.
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In the video, the presidential candidate is speaking to actor Roseanne Barr and recounts the story of travelling through New York’s Hudson Valley on a falconry expedition and coming across a young bear that had been hit and killed by another driver.
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In the video, Kennedy says he picked up the carcass and put it in his van, planning to skin it and eat it later. However, he ran out of time to take the bear home before having to catch a flight.

Kennedy said he and the group he was with – some of whom had been drinking – then came up with a plan to take an old bike he happened to have in his van and place the bear’s carcass in Central Park to make it look like the bear had been hit by a bike, taking advantage of a recent rash of bicycle crashes in New York.

“We thought it would be amusing for whoever found it,” Kennedy said.

“The next day it was on every television station,” Kennedy said to Barr. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, what did I do?’

“I was worried because my prints were all over that bike … Luckily, the story died down after awhile.”

I can imagine a group of drunken high school or college students thinking of this as a funny prank because at that age, people’s judgment is not well-formed. But Kennedy is 70 years old. A decade ago, he was 60. What kind of person of that age would think that this was a good idea?

A weird person, that’s who.

Kennedy revealed his role because he learned that the New Yorker was going to include that story in an upcoming profile of him. The article would also say that after trying to make a deal with creepy Donald Trump to get a cabinet post in exchange for an endorsement, he issued a scathing indictment of him.

The independent US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr called Donald Trump “a terrible human being”, the “worse [sic] president ever” and “barely human”.

“He is probably a sociopath,” Kennedy said in texts to an unnamed person, the New Yorker reported on Monday.

Kennedy has been linked to a job in a second Trump administration, not least after Kennedy’s son posted footage of such a move appearing to be discussed. Kennedy attended the Republican convention in Milwaukee in July.

The weirdness is strong in that one.

You can read the New Yorker article here.