In a shocking new photo released Monday, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poses with a dead bear cub he found in Central Park and later abandoned.
horrible pictures, Featured in The New YorkerThe photo shows Kennedy sitting in the backseat of a car next to a dead bear cub in 2014, posing to make it look like the animal was biting his hand.
Kennedy, 70, grimaced in pain as he pressed the cub’s head against his body and pressed its bloody teeth against his hand.
Graphic photos also show the dead cub’s bloody wounds, and Kennedy claims the bear was hit by a woman running in front of him during an outing in upstate New York.
Kennedy would only say of the photoshoot, “That’s probably where I got the brain parasite,” a reference to the worm that killed him decades ago after eating away at part of his brain.
The existence of this photo sent shock waves across social media, with many horrified and wondering why Kennedy would pose with a bloody dead bear.
In a cryptic interview with Roseanne Barr on Sunday, just before the New Yorker article was published, Kennedy acknowledged that he was the culprit behind the dead bear cub found in Central Park 10 years ago.
The Kennedy heir revealed that he had picked up the dead cub with the intention of skinning it and preserving the meat, but a meeting that day prevented him from carrying out his plan.
Instead, he decided to dump a bear cub in Central Park and make it look like the animal had been run over and killed by a bicyclist because he thought it would be funny.
The dead animal made headlines at the time when a woman discovered a cub, but its origins remained a mystery until Kennedy’s confession over the weekend.
As the bizarre story spread on social media, Kennedy correctly predicted that coverage of the dead bear’s treatment would be negative.
Kennedy has an average support rate of 5.5% in presidential polls, compared with former President Donald Trump’s 44.6% and Vice President Kamala Harris’ 44.8% in the latest polls. RealClearPolitics Count Competing for 5th place nationally.
