RFK Jr. Apologizes After Video of Call With Trump Leaks Showing Private Comments: ‘We’re Gonna Win’

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday to former President Donald Trump after footage of a private call between the two was leaked online by his son Bobby Kennedy III .

In the now-deleted video, recorded on Sunday, the day after the assassination attempt against Trump at his Pennsylvania rally, Bobby Kennedy III wrote that the former president can be heard “giving his real opinion to my dad about vaccinating kids.”

In his initial post, Bobby Kennedy III added that he believed “these sorts of conversations should be had in public.” He also lambasted Senator JD Vance (R-OH) who Trump announced Monday as his running mate, saying that the former president had chosen “JD ‘fire all the unvaccinated nurses’ Vance” over “unity” – in a suggestion that his father was being considered as a potential choice.

Bobby Kennedy III shared the video on X. (Screengrab via @therealpraveer)

In the clip posted Tuesday, Trump can be heard criticizing vaccines and the dosage amounts.

Something’s wrong with that whole system. And it’s the doctors, you find. Remember I said I want to do small doses? Small doses. When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines, and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a… you know 10 pound or 20 pound baby. It looks like you’re giving you should be giving a horse this. And do you ever see the size of it, right? You know, it’s just massive. And then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically. I’ve seen it too many times. And then you hear that it doesn’t have an impact, right? But you and I talked about that a long time ago.

Trump appears to then discuss working with Kennedy Jr. in the future, should he win the election, and his call with Biden following the shooting.

Anyway, I would love you to do stuff. And I think it would be so good for you and so big for you. And we’re going to win. We’re going to win. We’re way ahead of the guy. He called me. And he said: ‘How did you choose to move to the right?’

Trump continued to describe being shot.

I just turned my head to show the chart. And something wrapped me. It felt like a giant… like the world’s largest mosquito. And it was. It was a bullet going around. You know, what do they call that, an AR-15 or something? That was a big gun. That was a pretty tough gun, right?

Soon after posting, Bobby Kennedy III deleted the tweet featuring the video.

In response to the leak, Kennedy Jr. wrote that “when President Trump called” he was “taping with an in-house videographer.”

He added: “I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologize to the president.”

Mediaite’s senior media reporter Diana Falzone reported exclusively on Monday that Kennedy Jr. and Trump had discussed his role in a potential Trump administration during a phone call.

According to Politico , Trump also met Kennedy Jr. Monday morning in Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention is being held, to discuss the possibility of the independent candidate endorsing him. Asked by Politico about the meeting and a potential endorsement, Kennedy denied that he plans to drop out of the race.