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applegrove

(118,724 posts)
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 01:46 PM Apr 9

MAGA Takes Aim at RFK Jr.

MAGA Takes Aim at RFK Jr.

April 9, 2024 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 120 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/09/maga-takes-aim-at-rfk-jr/

"SNIP..........

Marc Caputo: “Trump advisers quietly acknowledge they and the right helped build up RFK Jr., especially after the pandemic when Kennedy’s anti-vaccine activism gained broader attention and support among conservatives.”

Said one Trump adviser: “For more than two years, Kennedy was on more conservative media than any of the Republicans who ran for president, so he’s partly a monster of our own making.”

.........SNIP"

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applegrove

(118,724 posts)
2. The Mark Vaputo link in the body of my OP also goes there. Goddard always put a link
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 02:00 PM
Apr 9

to the original article in the body of his out-take. I always make sure to put that link in my op unless it is Fox, WSJ, or X.

hlthe2b

(102,317 posts)
3. Ok. Typically the link would credit the actual source so I thought it was just
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 02:21 PM
Apr 9

a link to a note on who Mark Caputo is. Raw Story has a history of doing that which is frustrating.

Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts)
6. He could have said the same about Trump
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 05:02 PM
Apr 9

The problem (for them) is that their base is by definition anti-change, so once they make a monster, they find it difficult to return the monster to its cage.

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