Trump Prepares To Go Scorched Earth Against RFK Jr After Previously Hyping Him Up

Donald Trump and his MAGA allies have spent months hyping up Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the hopes that his candidacy would hurt Democrats. But now that it appears he will siphon more votes away from the Right, Trump and his friends are preparing a series of attacks against Kennedy. But how can they square that with their previous praise of him? Those clips are all available online, so they are now dealing with the monster that they created. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

You know, there's a quote that I love and, uh, uh, I, I believe it's from Oscar Wilde. It is, there are two great tragedies in life. The first is not getting what you want. The second is getting exactly what you want. And right now, republicans across the country are finding out about that second part of it. Like why is it bad to get exactly what you want? Well, because y'all wanted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To run for president. And by God, he is running for president. And now you've realized, thanks to all of the poll numbers out there, that he's actually more of a threat to Donald Trump than he is to President Biden. In fact, recent reports also suggest that Cornell West's presidency, or, or his, excuse me, candidacy, um, might pull more people away from Trump than they would from Biden. But it's the Kennedy one that really comes back to bite Republicans in the keister because Fox News has hyped him up.

Other conservatives, Steve Bannon has hyped him up. You know, he is been with Michael Flynn, Roger Stone. They thought, oh boy, we got this guy. He doesn't even realize we're playing him and we're gonna run him for president on the Democrat side, and Biden's gonna go down. Well, as we all know, all that's changed. And now according to reports, now that he's a threat to Trump, Trump who just a couple months ago was praising Robbie, uh, Bobby Kennedy Jr. Um, is now actually planning to have to go out at a full blown political assault on Bobby. Let me read you this, um, this is from Raw Story, but reporting from the Daily Beast as well. Some pro-Trump activists are already preparing for this possibility. If he wants to run, run, fine, but if he chooses to run as an independent, then he's our opponent. One said one source privy to the Trump campaign.

The source added that he, uh, that he would be easy for Trump to go after, quote. He's not this centrist that he portrays himself to be. He's a hard line Democrat and a bunch of major issues that run against the Republican party and specifically MAGA Republicans. So he's a centrist Democrat, right, he's, he's the enemy of maga. He was the darling of Maga like two weeks ago. What happened? Like he was the mud, he was the sensible one. He was saying some things that I really like, but now you're like, oh my God, this guy's like a Bernie Sanders on steroids. No, no, no, he's not. But y'all have to craft this narrative. So the question is, how do you craft the narrative now that he's like this far left Democrat when you've already crafted and sold the narrative and people bought the narrative that he's

Actually a reasonable guy, that conservatives actually kinda like, I mean, the video of you guys praising him is still out there. I mean, it's still so recent that it's fresh in our minds. We don't even need the videos. So what do you do now? It's not just that you got exactly what you wanted. This, this is genuinely like the Frankenstein's monster thing. You're like, Hey, let's create this thing. Oh no. The thing is destroying everything it touches that we love. Well, buyer beware. Y'all pushed it, y'all own it, and y'all are gonna have to deal with the consequences.