5 Craziest Details from Damning Vanity Fair RFK JR Profile — Featuring a Photo of Him Posing With A Roasted Dog Carcass

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential run has been something of a rollercoaster, whether it be his longshot bid to get on all 50 state ballots, push-up videos, or talk of brain worms, and a new report is adding fuel to the fire, including a picture of Kennedy Jr. posing with what appears to be a cooked dog.

A lengthy story from Joe Hagan for Vanity Fair published Tuesday details a series of unflattering comments about Kennedy Jr. from close friends and family, as well as more troubling allegations, including that he sexually assaulted a former babysitter.

Here are the five wildest details from the latest expose on President Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s longshot November rival , Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

1. RFK Jr. texted a photo of him posing with a dead dog: According to Hagan’s report, Kennedy Jr. texted a photo of him and an unidentified woman posing with a barbecued dog carcass. The photo was actually taken in 2010, and a veterinarian identified the carcass as a dead dog. The person Kennedy Jr. was texting was reportedly traveling to Asia and Kennedy Jr. was offering him — possible jokingly — a restaurant he might enjoy in Korea.

Kennedy Jr. critics were quick to spread the photo on social media.

Kennedy Jr. claimed in a later interview that the image was not of a dog, but instead a goat which he ate in Patagonia.

2. RFK Jr. snorted coke worry-free in front of a reporter: The new report focuses extensively on Kennedy Jr.’s early years as an addict, something he’s openly spoken about on the campaign trail. Kennedy Jr. was apparently so worry-free about his drug use that he once snorted up in front of a reporter who was co-authoring a 1984 book on the Kennedys.

David Horowitz told Hagan that Kennedy Jr. cut lines of cocaine in front of his brother Michael Kennedy and had him snort a line in front of Horowitz before saying he was a reporter.

3. Babysitter says she was assaulted by RFK Jr., including late-night lotion request: A woman named Eliza Cooney came forward to accuse Kennedy Jr. of sexual assault while she worked as a part-time babysitter for his family at 23. The then-recent college graduate was hired in 1998 lived in the Kennedy home in New York and also did work at Kennedy Jr.’s environmental law clinic.

Cooney accused Kennedy Jr. of rubbing her leg while they were in a meeting at the home and later asking her to rub lotion on his back late at night.

“I have to watch out, be careful. And the other night in the kitchen w/ Murray I could have sworn he was touching my leg + hand. It seemed like he thought I was somebody else or wasn’t paying attention. Like he would come to every once in a while and snap out of it or I would move away. It was like he was on something or really tired or was missing Mary or was testing me,” she wrote in a diary entry reviewed by Hagan.

Cooney said one night Kennedy Jr. was standing shirtless in her bedroom and her diary was open. He asked her to rub lotion on his back, which she did “reluctantly and quickly.”

She also alleged Kennedy Jr. groped her later while she was in his kitchen. Cooney said another worker walked in and interrupted.

Kennedy Jr.’s team did not answer any of Vanity Fair’s allegations, but he addressed the allegations in a general fashion in a later interview, stating he is “not a church boy” and he had a “very rambunctious youth.” Kennedy Jr. said he would not comment specifically about the accusations from Cooney.

4. Kicked out of non-profit for taking Trump meeting: Kennedy Jr. faced backlash over taking a meeting with Trump at Trump Tower in 2017. The non-profit Riverkeeper, for which Kennedy Jr. served as an attorney and spokesperson, faced internal backlash that ultimately led to Kennedy Jr. being pushed out.

“On Monday morning he’s giving a speech saying, ‘Do not believe any scientists [on vaccines],’ and on Tuesday, ‘You’ve gotta believe the scientists when it comes to climate change or what we’re doing to the river,'” one person close to the non-profit recalled.

According to the report, Kennedy Jr. and the non-profit’s leadership decided through multiple meetings to frame his leaving as a resignation.

5. College years included an owl, snake, and leaping buildings? These claims may need to be taken with a larger bit of salt because they are chalked up to “family lore” and Kennedy Jr.’s college years filled with addiction.

According to Hagan, Kennedy Jr. was carrying around a live snake, hanging in his dorm with an owl, and leaping across buildings like Spider-Man.

Hagan writes:

Family lore had it that Kennedy, while attending Harvard, once leapt the gap between two six-story buildings. He kept an owl in his house and carried a live snake around campus.

Read the entire Vanity Fair report here .