Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s marketing campaign has fired certainly one of its marketing campaign officers who not too long ago stated her “primary precedence” is defeating President Joe Biden, and that Kennedy’s marketing campaign was the “greatest strategic alternative to dam Biden” from getting reelected over Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, the Kennedy camp quietly introduced that Rita Palma had been faraway from their roster.
“We terminated her contract for misrepresentation instantly upon seeing the longer video by which she gave an inaccurate job title and described a dialog that didn’t occur,” Kennedy marketing campaign director Amaryllis Fox wrote on X.
On April 5, Palma, presenting herself as a New York state director for the Kennedy marketing campaign, instructed a bunch of Republican voters that “the one manner that Trump may even [have a] distant risk of taking New York is that if Bobby is on the poll. If it’s Trump vs. Biden, Biden wins. Biden wins six days, seven days every week. With Bobby within the combine, something can occur.
“Whether or not you help Bobby or Trump, all of us oppose Biden,” Palma stated. “And my ideas are that’s the primary precedence within the nation. I’m going to vote for Bobby. Nevertheless, if I get up Nov. 6, and Trump wins, I’m not going to be overly upset. But when Biden wins, we’re all going to be terribly upset as a result of he’s ruining America. And the folks that management him are ruining our nation.”
On Monday, Fox tried to distance Kennedy from Palma’s feedback, and rebuked her declare of being a state director for the marketing campaign — however didn’t make clear whether or not or not she remained employed with the marketing campaign.
“Rita Palma was employed a few weeks in the past as a poll entry guide, chargeable for scheduling volunteer shifts throughout our upcoming signature assortment drive within the Empire State. She has no involvement in — or entry to — electoral technique, nationally or in New York,” Fox wrote, including that “the video circulating was not taken at a marketing campaign occasion. Palma was talking as a non-public citizen and her statements on no account replicate marketing campaign technique.”
The official announcement of Palma’s ouster from the marketing campaign comes the day after CNN reported on social media posts revealing that Palma attended “Cease the Steal” rallies within the aftermath of the 2020 election, and was current at a pro-Trump rally close to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The posts additionally revealed that Palma had closely promoted conspiracy theories relating to false claims of election rigging by President Biden, and sometimes referred to Trump as her “favourite president.”
Whereas the Kennedy marketing campaign has fired Palma, it’s unclear to what extent they have been conscious of her political leanings earlier than hiring her. In response to Palma, she explicitly instructed Kennedy’s marketing campaign that she would solely be a part of them if she was “allowed to evangelise” that “we wish to eliminate Biden in New York state.”
