{"id":106661,"date":"2024-08-05T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/rfk-jr-says-he-left-dead-bear-in-central-park-10-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T09:04:10","slug":"rfk-jr-says-he-left-dead-bear-in-central-park-10-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/rfk-jr-says-he-left-dead-bear-in-central-park-10-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. says he left dead bear in Central Park 10 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., partner with Morgan & Morgan PA and 2024 independent presidential candidate, speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, on Friday, July 26, 2024. (Liam Kennedy\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(WASHINGTON) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a conversation with Roseanne Barr posted on X Sunday that he placed a dead “young bear” in Central Park 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

In the video, which the campaign said was posted to get ahead of a New Yorker<\/em> article, the candidate said he was driving in upstate New York when a woman in a van in front of him hit and killed the bear, he told Barr.<\/p>\n

Kennedy told Barr he pulled over and put the bear in the back of his vehicle, planning to skin it and put the meat in his refrigerator.<\/p>\n

However, after a day spent “hawking,” followed by a dinner that ran long back in New York City, Kennedy told Barr that he did not have time to put the bear in his house before catching a flight out of New York. Kennedy said he chose — with encouragement from others — to place the dead bear in the New York City park next to a bicycle he happened to have in his car to make it appear as if a bicyclist struck the bear. Kennedy said bicycling accidents with pedestrians were big news at the time.<\/p>\n

The dead bear made news when a woman discovered it the next day, though Kennedy was never tied to the incident.<\/p>\n

Kennedy said at the end of the video that he told the story to get ahead of an upcoming New Yorker<\/em> profile of him, which he believes will include details of the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking forward to seeing how you spin this one [New Yorker<\/em>],\u201d he wrote on X to accompany the video.<\/p>\n

The Kennedy campaign is not worried about any legal ramifications stemming from Kennedy’s bear incident, a campaign official told.<\/p>\n

The official said the video was shot as an outtake when Kennedy recorded a conversation with Barr. The campaign saw it as a funny story that they decided to post Sunday when they became aware the New Yorker <\/em>was planning to include the incident in an upcoming article, the campaign official said.<\/p>\n

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