‘He Likes Him’: Maggie Haberman Says Trump-RFK Jr. Alliance Works They’re ‘Very Transactional People

NEW YORK TIMES AS WELL. MAGGIE, THANKS FOR JOINING US, THE NEW YORKER WROTE THIS IN A PROFILE OF RFK JUNIOR EARLIER THIS MONTH. AND LET ME LET ME READ IT TO OUR VIEWERS. IN A RECENT TEXT EXCHANGE, KENNEDY TOLD ONE PERSON THAT TRUMP WAS A QUOTE TERRIBLE HUMAN BEING, THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER. AND BARELY HUMAN. HE IS PROBABLY A SOCIOPATH CLOSE QUOTE. SO HOW DID THIS UNLIKELY ENDORSEMENT TODAY OF TRUMP COME ABOUT? >> SO WILL THESE ARE TWO VERY TRANSACTIONAL PEOPLE AND ROBERT KENNEDY JR. HAS BEEN LOOKING AROUND TRYING TO MAKE SOME KIND OF AN ENDORSEMENT DEAL WITH BOTH CANDIDATES. THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTED RECENTLY THAT HE HAD APPROACHED THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN ABOUT POSSIBLE SPLIT SUPPORTING HER AND THEN GETTING A MEETING AND THERE WAS NO MEETING, BUT TRUMP HAS BEEN MUCH MORE RECEPTIVE. REMEMBER THESE ARE TWO PEOPLE KENNEDY AND TRUMP WHO MET DURING TRUMP'S 2017 TRANSITION BOBBY KENNEDY CLAIMED THAT TRUMP WAS GOING TO APPOINT HIM TO SOME KIND OF A VACCINE COMMISSION. AND THEN TRUMP'S AIDES QUIETLY DISTANCE TRUMP FROM IT, BUT TRUMP IS OPEN TO HAVING DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM. HE LIKES HIM. TRUMP IS A CREDENTIAL LIST AND HE LIKES THE KENNEDY NAME. SO THIS ALL BEGAN SHORTLY BEFORE THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. AND IT'S BEEN MOVING TOWARD THIS. I THINK THAT RFK JUNIOR CLEARLY SEES HE DOES NOT HAVE A REAL PATH.

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