Robert Kennedy Jr. Says He Was Behind The Placement Of A Dead Bear Cub In Central Park

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Robert Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, said in a video posted to X today that he was the person who placed a dead bear cub in Central Park, making it look like it was involved in an accident with a bicycle.

He relayed the unusual story apparently in an effort to get ahead of a New Yorker piece on the incident. In the video, Kennedy is speaking to Roseanne Barr, in a kitchen area.

Kennedy said that he had been in the Hudson Valley area, early one morning, when a woman in a van in front of him hit a bear and killed it. “So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van, because I was going to skin the bear, and it was in very good condition,” Kennedy told Barr.

He said he was going to put the meat in his refrigerator. After spending the day hawking, Kennedy said that instead of going back to his home in Westchester he had to get to a dinner in New York City. “At the end of the dinner, it went late, and I realized I couldn’t go home, I had to go to the airport,” he said. “And the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in my car, because that would have been bad.” He said that he and his friends at the dinner decided to take the bear to Central Park “and we will make it look like he got hit by a bike.” They thought that whoever found the bear would find it amusing, but instead it created a bit of a media sensation. “The next day it was on every television station.