Intermezzo: RFK Jr. on RFK's Murder
A QAnon-like, pro-Sirhan cult is born
UPDATED: AUGUST 23, 2024 (1st direct distribution to subscribers of Mobology)
After our two phone conversations and several email exchanges—before he publicly declared his belief in the innocence of Sirhan Sirhan as his father’s killer—RFK Jr. sent me a story in the Boston Globe, without comment, in which I criticized him for his poor judgment. RFK Jr. was clearly agitated with me for what I had said about him.
Specifically, Globe reporter Nik DeCosta-Klipa wrote, in part:
Moldea says the second-shooter theory persists because authoritatively making the case that Sirhan was the sole shooter isn’t a clean and easy task. The 68-year-old journalist says he talked to RFK Jr. earlier in the year after he visited Sirhan and tried to explain that Sirhan’s team was promoting the theory to increase the odds he might get released from prison.
“I would not want to take the blame for this crime as long as there is exculpatory evidence that I didn’t do the crime,” Sirhan admitted to Moldea in 1993.
Moldea said he is “livid” with how the Post treated the recent story and imagines Sirhan is “in his jail cell right now spiking the football.” Quoting from his book, he reiterated his point that nearly every murder can be made to look like a conspiracy if ‘occasional official mistakes and incompetence’ are not taken into account.
“I think [RFK Jr.] has been misled, conned, and corrupted by the conspiracy crowd to believe this garbage that the man that murdered his father is innocent,” Moldea said.
In response, I sent RFK Jr. the email pictured above. I have had no further direct contact with him—even after he subsequently lied about my role in his failed attempt to arrange an interview with Thane Eugene Cesar, a security guard at the crime scene whom RFK Jr. wrongly believes was his father’s assassin.
Also, here is a package I have assembled in response to RFK Jr.’s ridiculous views and theories about the tragic murder of his father.
* “June 5 with the 30th anniversary of my third and final interview with Sirhan Sirhan: Contrary to what RFK Jr. says, Sirhan did it and did it alone” (June 2, 2024)
* “Challenging RFK Jr.’s bullshit about his father’s tragic 1968 murder: Does the Harvard man have the guts to take on the Akron U grad?” (April 18, 2024)
* “If RFK Jr. lies about his own father’s murder, then he will lie about anything” (March 24, 2024)
* “PolitiFact names RFK Jr's "campaign of conspiracy theories" as the biggest lie of 2023” (December 31, 2023)
* “Gavin Newsom discusses RFK Jr. on Meet the Press today” (September 10, 2023
* “RFK Jr. on his father’s murder: A fantasy” (June 28, 2023)
* “RFK Jr. on RFK’s murder: False facts and half-baked opinions” (June 22, 2023)
