Thread by @lisapease

I was a friend, briefly, to RFK Jr. But the more I got to know him, the more I saw how he really had trouble telling fact from fiction. He could be so smart, especially about things he learned 20 years ago, but things he read recently - he fell for just about anything conspiratorial. (Thread)

So horribly sad to see. And his stance on Palestine made me never want to talk to him again. He actually said "maybe it's better" if all the Palestinians were killed by Israel. I wish I were making that up. I'm not.

I was introduced to him by David Talbot, who had known him for years, because Talbot couldn't talk him down from one of the disinformation lines in the JFK assassination story (that James Files killed JFK). He asked who knew that story and could talk him out of it.

I said, Give him to me. We wrote about that in Probe and I can convince him. He ignored my arguments, but when I sent him some actual data proving Files' story to be false, he listened. Then,

I gained further credibility with him when I said btw, I know for a fact your father didn't approve the Castro plots - neither JFK nor RFK did, and it's in the CIA's own files that they didn't. That bonded us for a time.

But then Oct. 7 happened. I had a series of emails and phone texts with him. I think there was one voice convo in there as well. He kept quoting Alan Dershowitz as if he were an unbiased party.

Most distressingly, he really seemed to think ALL Palestinians were "taught from birth to kill Israelis" and therefore even babies were combatants (to be) that had to be completely destroyed for Israel's sake. I was horrified.

I said to him, Bobby, you sound so racist. And that was pretty much the end of our discussion. He had launched his presidential bid and politely excused himself from further conversation. The next time ...

... I heard from him was when he called to ask me to help make a list of people that the CIA's records should be searched for in the RFK assassination. "This is Bobby," he said. "I'm so furious at you," I said, literally shaking.

"Why?" he asked. "Palestine!" I responded. He went back into his they're taught from birth to kill and I said "SO ARE THE ISRAELIS!" He said "This is a subject for a much longer conversation" and I said "what did you call me about?"

I love him and I can't stand him at the same time. How can someone who has a big heart in some areas have such a cruel heart in others? He's a huge walking contradiction. But one thing I know for a fact. His "truth meter" is broken.