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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zoe Williams

From RFK Jr’s dead bear to a shot dog, why do US politicians keep throwing us red meat?

Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr giving a speech
Animal instinct … Robert F Kennedy Jr. Photograph: Steve Marcus/AP

I had never really engaged with how spooky Robert F Kennedy Jr looked until I saw him describe, in a video, the circumstances in which he ended up driving around with a dead baby bear in his boot. It sounds a lot more like an anxiety dream than a thing that happened, but here you go: the independent US presidential candidate had been taking some people falconing in the Hudson valley, in 2014, when he saw a woman hit and kill a bear with her van.

Kennedy decided to skin and eat it, so he picked it up, only remembering later that he didn’t have time to do either of those things, because he was going out for dinner in New York and taking a flight straight after. Can’t take a dead bear cub on a flight. He had bought only hold luggage and this was carrion. Sorry.

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