A campaign aide for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Donald Trump her “favorite president” and attended the infamous “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a CNN report.
On Tuesday, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reported that Rita Palma – an RFK Jr. campaign aide based in New York – authored a series of social media posts demonstrating an affinity for Trump’s lies about the 2020 election being stolen from him – complete with a photo of former Trump lawyer and election-denying crank Sidney Powell:
Rita Palma, who has identified herself as the Kennedy campaign’s state director in New York, also repeatedly called Trump her “favorite president,” according to tweets along with comments she posted on the conservative social media site Parler that have since been made private.
According to a KFILE examination of those now-private posts, Palma also posed for a photo at the former Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, alongside Sidney Powell – the pro-Trump attorney who pleaded guilty in Georgia’s election subversion case.
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Palma’s promotion and attendance at “Stop the Steal” events after the 2020 election reflects a segment of support Kennedy has received from Trump supporters, particularly as a means of helping the former president retake the White House in 2024.
Kaczynski noted that there is no evidence Palma attended the Capitol riot, where after the “Stop the Steal” rally, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a deadly and vain attempt to overturn the election results. In another post, Palma blamed the riot on “the rigged election.”
CNN previously reported that Palma told a group of New York Republicans that Kennedy’s presence on the ballot in the state gives Trump a fighting chance to defeat President Joe Biden in the state.
“The only way for him, for Bobby, to shake it up and to get rid of Biden is if he’s on the ballot in every state, including New York,” she said.
