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Beth Greenfield

Caroline Kennedy urges senators to reject her cousin RFK Jr.'s nomination

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Caroline Kennedy made a withering appeal to senators on Tuesday to reject the nomination of her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, calling him “unqualified” and “a predator.”

She noted that she had not commented when asked her thoughts in the past year because it felt inappropriate—both in her government position as U.S. ambassador to Australia and as a family member from “a close generation of 28 cousins who have been through a lot together.”

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