In trying to bat away accusations of using his official TikTok account to engage with an OnlyFans model — presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blamed an unnamed subordinate social media campaign staffer.
Kennedy, kin to the most esteemed Democratic families in American politics, has denied he was the one that posted the comment: “Wow,” plus heart-eyes emojis reacting to an OnlyFans model's video from the fall of 2022.
It surfaced Wednesday evening, when another Twitter/X user posted a screen recording revealing Kennedy’s official account posting, reports Politico.
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“The TikTok comment in question was made in 2022 long before I ever had a TikTok account,” the long-shot presidential candidate tweeted. “This comment now appears on my account because the account was previously owned by one of the campaign’s young social media managers.”
Kennedy is married to actress Cheryl Hines, and has six children from two previous marriages. In 2012, he became a widower when Mary Kennedy was discovered dead in Bedford, New York, from asphyxiation due to hanging.
When he initially intended to announce the White House bid last April, the campaign hoped to stream the event on TikTok.