Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Cheryl Hines Doesn't Support Donald Trump

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Cheryl Hines doesn't deserve to be bullied over Donald Trump because his endorsement doesn't mean his wife is a Trump supporter ... quite the opposite.

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00:00Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has thrown his support behind Donald Trump.

00:06There have been stories that have surfaced over the last day or so that his wife, Sheryl

00:11Hines, was involved in this.

00:15As the reports go, that she may have even met with Trump and her husband and gave some

00:23encouragement.

00:24I would say that Sheryl's reaction was the opposite of encouraging.

00:30On the night that President Trump was shot, we learned from his associates that he wanted

00:43to have this conversation with me.

00:45She urged me to do that, and she did that out of compassion.

00:50It was an emotional night for our country.

00:53It was an emotional night for everyone, and she made the right judgment.

00:59She did attend a meeting, a subsequent meeting with President Trump.

01:05She attended that meeting mainly to make sure that there were no hasty decisions made at

01:11it.

01:12This has been a really difficult issue for Sheryl, just the opposite of what she would

01:21want to do.

01:23She went along with it because she loves me and she wanted to be supportive of me,

01:29but it was not something that she ever encouraged.

01:34I would say it was her trepidation about this and discomfort with this was, I would say,

01:43were the dominant feelings.

01:45There could be different reasons for trepidation.

01:49Is it accurate to assume the trepidation is that she does not support Donald Trump?

01:55Yes.

01:56She's a lifelong Democrat, and the idea of supporting Donald Trump as president was just,

02:05like I said, it's something that she would have never imagined, that she never wanted

02:09in her life, that I think causes her a lot of discomfort.

02:17I'm very grateful to her for giving me personally support, but she was not somebody who was

02:24clamoring for this move.

02:27I would say the opposite was true.

02:29Bradley Whitford from West Wing went on Twitter yesterday and just blasted Sheryl, saying,

02:40Hey Sheryl Hines, a way to stay silent while your lunatic husband throws his support behind

02:47the adjudicated rapist who brags about stripping women of their fundamental rights, gutsy,

02:54great example for the kids, profile in courage.

02:58I'm assuming you and Sheryl have seen that.

03:01I wonder what your reaction, and what her reaction is to that.

03:05My reaction would be, well, you can imagine, Harvey, that I had some strong feelings about

03:12that, but it's a template for bullying.

03:21Here you have a guy, instead of challenging me, he's attacking my wife.

03:28Who would do that?

03:29What kind of person, what kind of man would do that?

03:33Why wouldn't he talk to me directly?

03:36And I'm happy to engage him, and I'm happy to explain why I do what I do.

03:43Why would you, you know, he, like many people who point fingers and accuse other people

03:51of bullying women, that's exactly what he was doing there.

03:55I want to ask you about something that has circulated in the media over the last couple

04:00of days.

04:02Comments that you had made previously about Donald Trump, which include saying that he's

04:08a threat to democracy, a bully, that he appealed to bigotry, hatred, and xenophobia, and prejudice,

04:17that he was a terrible president, and you even accused him of corruption.

04:22Those were comments you made.

04:24What changed?

04:25Well, I gave a long speech a couple days ago that, about a 45-minute speech that explained

04:33my evolution away from those views and towards the endorsement.

04:40You don't have, you don't have a lot of time here, and I'm happy to answer any questions

04:45about that, but it's not something that I, that evolution is not something that I can

04:51distill or summarize in a minute.

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