Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Under Investigation By Feds For Beheading A Dead Whale

Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is investigating him for beheading a deceased whale.

Kick Kennedy, Kennedy’s daughter, revealed in an interview that her father cut off a whale’s head with a chainsaw years ago.

During a recently resurfaced interview with Town & Country which occurred in 2012, Kennedy’s daughter, Kick, told the outlet that when she was six, her father found out that a dead whale washed up on Squaw Island, a beach in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Kick then mentioned that her father ran down to the beach with a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head, and then bungee-corded it to the roof of his family’s minivan for their five-hour trip back to Mount Kisco, New York. 

On August 26, the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, a nonprofit group, wrote a letter to the directors of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in which they requested that they investigate Kennedy for his actions.

In the letter to the NOAA, Brett Hartl, the national political director for the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, argued that Kennedy, a former environmental lawyer, violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act and maybe even the Endangered Species Act.

Two days later, a NOAA spokeswoman said the agency received the letter and would “respond through the appropriate channels.”

During a campaign event for the former president in Glendale, Arizona, on Saturday, Kennedy confirmed that the NMFS, a part of the NOAA responsible for marine fisheries, was investigating him.

“I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago,” he stated at the event. “It’s 15 years past the statute of limitations, but they’re opening an investigation.”

He then said that this was “all about the weaponization of our government against political opponents and the party in power, and it’s dangerous for our democracy—as [his] father understood.”

Kennedy said that he replied in a letter, baselessly linking the NMFS with whale deaths with “giant offshore wind farms.” 

In early August, Kennedy admitted to actress Roseanne Barr that he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park ten years ago.

On September 8, the former candidate and reality TV star Amber Rose collaborated on social media to push the slogan “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA).