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Jordan Collins

RFK Jr. says he met Charlie Kirk when he was seven years old and that they were ‘soulmates’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said some pretty wild and inaccurate things in the past but he may have surpassed even himself this time with his bizarre and frankly quite weird tribute to Charlie Kirk.

Speaking to a crowd of mourners at a prayer vigil paying tribute to the late podcast host, the health secretary claimed to have met Kirk in July of 2001, supposedly appearing on his podcast. He also told the crowd that he and Kirk became very close by the end of their first meeting. But there’s just one problem with RFK Jr.’s statement, Charlie Kirk would have been about seven years old at the time.

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