Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Denies Eating A Dog’s Carcass After Photo Goes Viral

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied a Vanity Fair report that said that he ate what appeared to be the carcass of a dog.

On Tuesday, journalist Joe Hagan published an article showing a photograph of Kennedy, which was taken in 2010, posing with and pretending to take a bite of an animal’s barbecued carcass. 

“Last year Robert Kennedy Jr. texted a photograph to a friend,” Hagan said in his article “RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets.” 

“In the photo, RFK Jr. was posing, alongside an unidentified woman, with the barbecued remains of what he suggested to the friend was a dog,” he added. “Kennedy told the person, who was traveling to Asia, that he might enjoy a restaurant in Korea that served dog on the menu, suggesting Kennedy had sampled dog.”

Hagan stated that the image aimed to be comedic since the independent presidential candidate had been “pantomiming.”

However, the journalist said that “for the recipient it was disturbing evidence of Kennedy’s poor judgment and thoughtlessness, simultaneously mocking Korean culture, reveling in animal cruelty, and needlessly risking his reputation and that of his family.”

Kennedy declared on social media after this story was published that the image showed the carcass of a goat in Patagonia, contrary to what he texted his friend. 

“The friend says that Kennedy ‘sent me the picture with a recommendation to visit the best dog restaurant in Seoul, so he was certainly representing that this was a dog and not a goat. In any case, it’s grotesque,'” Hagan recounted.

Kennedy also denied the outlet’s claims during an interview with Saagar Enjeti on the political podcast Breaking Points.

“The article is – is a lot of garbage,” he claimed. “The picture that they said is of me eating a dog; it’s actually me eating a goat in Patagonia on a whitewater trip many years ago on the Futaleufú River.”

“They say there’s an – they have an expert that has identified that as a dog carcass,” he said. “It’s just not true.”

The candidate even attacked Vanity Fair in an X post.

“Hey @VanityFair, you know when your veterinary experts call a goat a dog, and your forensic experts say a photo taken in Patagonia was taken in Korea, that you’ve joined the ranks of supermarket tabloids,” he wrote. “Keep telling America that up is down if you want. I’ll keep talking about the fact that working families can’t afford houses or groceries because our last two presidents went on a $14 trillion debt joyride, paid for by hard-working Americans.”

“The DNC media’s garbage pail journalism may distract us from President Biden’s cognitive deficits but it does little to elevate the national debate or reduce the price of groceries,” Kennedy stated.

In late May, Kennedy received mixed responses on social media regarding his proposal to put the American budget on blockchain to make government spending more transparent.

While some members of the cryptocurrency community argued that this plan would end corruption.

During the Libertarian National Convention on May 24, Kennedy urged the party to endorse him in an hour-long speech.