Robert F Kennedy Jr has abandoned his independent presidential bid to endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The news emerged in court documents filed by the 70-year-old's campaign team. A Pennsylvania court filing asked to remove him from the state's ballot, according to the AP. And on Thursday, Arizona officials said Mr Kennedy filed paperwork to remove himself from the presidential ballot there. Mr Kennedy is the nephew of former US president John F Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
As well as sharing disinformation online, Mr Kennedy became a regular on the anti-mandate rally circuit during the coronavirus response. At one event, he compared the US government's use of vaccine mandates to laws in Nazi Germany. 'Even in Hitler's Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,' he told the crowd at a march in January 2022.
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