Robert Kennedy Jr has strongly denied that he once ate a dog, as he revealed that he would eat 'virtually anything' except three things.
The independent candidate for president, 70, slammed a Vanity Fair article that claimed he ate a dog in South Korea as 'a dumpster of misinformation.'
Speaking on NewsNation's CUOMO Tuesday night, Kennedy said: 'I am a very adventurous eater... I'll eat virtually anything.
'There's three things I wouldn't eat - I wouldn't eat a human, I wouldn't eat a monkey, and I wouldn't eat a dog.
'I think I'd eat anything else, but I just couldn't bring myself to do those things, so it is a goat and you are what you eat. '
On Tuesday Vanity Fair published a deep dive into Kennedy's long history of 'reckless' behavior - chronicling his drug use and allegations of sexual assault. The story claimed included an image that supposedly shows Kennedy holding the charred remains of a dog
On Tuesday Vanity Fair published a deep dive into Kennedy's long history of 'reckless' behavior - chronicling his drug use and allegations of sexual assault.
The story claimed included an image that supposedly shows Kennedy holding the charred remains of a dog.
VF said Kennedy had sent out the photo in question to a friend last year - recommending his pal try a restaurant in South Korea that serves dog meat.
The magazine said a veterinarian identified the animal as a dog, as the animal had a telltale 'floating rib' found in canines.
Metadata from the photograph showed it was taken in 2010 - the same year that Kennedy contracted a brain worm.
On Tuesday afternoon, RFK Jr. posted to X saying that the grizzled animal wasn't a dog but a goat and the photograph wasn't from Korea but Patagonia.
He gave the same explanation during a Tuesday afternoon appearance on Fox News.
'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,' Kennedy wrote.
RFK Jr said: 'There's three things I wouldn't eat - I wouldn't eat a human, I wouldn't eat a monkey, and I wouldn't eat a dog'
'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 independent continued.
Vanity Fair's story goes on to suggest that Kennedy could have contracted the brain worm in 2010 from the 'dog.'
The candidate has said that he believed he contracted the tapeworm from food he ate - though it's unclear where he had that meal.
The VF story also included claims that RFK Jr sexually assaulted a former family babysitter, Eliza Cooney.
Cooney reportedly told the magazine that Kennedy groped her in the family kitchen.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Libertarian National Convention on May 24
Kennedy has since said the article contains 'a lot of garbage', but when pressed by a podcast interviewer whether he denied the sexual assault allegation, he said: 'I'm not going to comment on it.'
Kennedy told the Breaking Points podcast on Tuesday, 'I am not a church boy.
'I had a very, very rambunctious youth,' he told podcaster Saagar Enjeti. 'I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world.'
He additionally said the magazine was 'recycling 30-year-old stories,' and insisted: 'I'm not going to comment on the details of any of them, but it's — you know, I am who I am.'
