"His Minivan Always Smelled Of Death": RFK Jr.'s "Weird" Obsession With This One Thing Apparently Made His Car Smell Horrible

It’s harmless to presume that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unfamiliar with the conception of caller car smell.

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Carole Radziwill — whose precocious hubby Anthony was champion friends and cousins with RFK Jr.’s cousin, the precocious John F. Kennedy Jr. — admitted connected the On with Kara Swisher podcast that though the authorities of the Secretary of Health and Human Services person changed implicit the years, there’s ever been 1 changeless successful his life: his emotion for roadkill.

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And acknowledgment to Kennedy’s macabre hobby, riding successful his car sounds a batch similar a country from a fearfulness movie called thing like, Minivan of a Thousand Corpses.

“He had that weird happening astir roadkill, always,” Radziwill said connected Swisher’s podcast. “He would prime it up from the roadworthy each the clip and permission it successful his minivan, and sometimes he’d forget. There’d beryllium similar a skunk nether the seat. His minivan ever smelled of death.”

The Real Housewives of New York City alum added that she knew Kennedy and his precocious wife, Mary Richardson, “well” and “spent a batch of time” with them earlier and aft her hubby died successful 1999.

Radziwill told Swisher that speech from Kennedy’s affinity for carnal cadavers, she doesn’t truly admit the antheral she knew, who she described arsenic erstwhile being a “fierce biology advocate.”

“I conscionable can’t reconcile who it is I thought I knew with this idiosyncratic who has appeared connected the scene,” Radziwill said of Kennedy. “He’s undermining everything that the Kennedy household stood for, everything connected each level.”

“If millions of children die, certainly,” Swisher responded, apt referring to the ongoing measles outbreak, which the New York Times reports has “sickened thousands and caused much than a twelve deaths.”

The resurgence of measles — which the Times notes is simply a microorganism that was declared eliminated successful 2000 — tin beryllium tied to anti-vaccine beliefs that Kennedy helped popularize. 

Radziwill told Swisher that she mislaid interaction with Kennedy soon aft Richardson died successful 2012. She besides implied that she chopped him disconnected astir the clip Kennedy became the look of the anti-vax movement.

“He truly made his people being an anti-vaxxer; that was his full thing,” Radziwill said. “My feeling is like, helium had exhausted everything helium could perchance constitute and speech astir connected the environment, which I deliberation ever was his existent passionateness — astatine slightest erstwhile I knew him.”

Radziwill went connected to accidental that she thinks Kennedy’s power from environmentalism to anti-vax peddling was purely a “money thing.” “So … present you’re going to constitute 10 books connected pharmaceutical companies and vaccines,” Radziwill said. “To my head, it’s similar a concern move.”

“A grift,” Swisher said. “A grift, yeah,” Radziwill agreed.

Then Radziwill summed up wherefore she thinks President Donald Trump picked Kennedy for his furniture position. “Grifters spot grifters,” Radziwill said.

This nonfiction primitively appeared on HuffPost.