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Robert F Kennedy Jr announced as speaker at hard-right CPAC event

Robert F Kennedy Jr at the Iowa state fair in August.
Robert F Kennedy Jr at the Iowa state fair in August. Photograph: Scott Morgan/Reuters

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the attorney, conspiracy theorist and political gadfly set to next week transform his run for the Democratic presidential nomination into an independent campaign, was announced on Friday as a speaker at an event staged by the hard-right Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.

“Robert F Kennedy Jr has a unique voice in advocating for the defunding of the weaponised bureaucracy and ensuring the constitutional right of medical freedom,” said the CPAC chair, Matt Schlapp.

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