Democrats have recently hit on a new line to attack Trump and Vance over some of their bizarre statements on race, women and other issues: The Republican ticket mates are just plain weird, they say.
But this election cycle — that has already featured a story about one-time Republican vice presidential prospect and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem shooting her family dog, just took another bizarre twist involving another quirky candidate.
Independent hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a social media video on Sunday that he drove a dead bear cub carcass from upstate New York and left it in in New York City's Central Park 10 years ago – an mysterious incident that grabbed the attention of the entire city at the time. He shared the story in an apparent effort to pre-empt a story forthcoming in the New Yorker.
In the video posted to X, Kennedy tells actress Roseanne Barr about traveling through New York's Hudson Valley and coming across a "young bear" that had been hit and killed by another driver. He says in the video he decided to put the dead bear in his car because he planned to skin it and eat the meat.
Kennedy then said that after a dinner in New York City, he had to go to the airport and couldn't take the bear back home. He said he hit on an idea.
"I had an old bike in my car that somebody had asked me to get rid of, and I said, 'Let's go put the bear in Central Park, and we'll make it look like he got hit by a bike,'" Kennedy says in the video. "Everybody thought, 'That's a great idea.' So we did that, and we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it or something."
Kennedy said the bear's discovery appeared on "the front page of every paper," drawing wide media coverage and prompting investigations from law enforcement, which he said "worried" him because he'd left behind fingerprints. Kennedy suggested he was not blamed for the incident at the time.
"Luckily, the story died down after a while, and it stayed dead for a decade. The New Yorker somehow found out about it, and they just — they're gonna do a big article on me. … So they asked me, the fact-checkers," he said.
In a caption on the post containing the video, Kennedy wrote, "Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker."
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