Although he did not qualify to participate in the televised debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on June 27, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues. his election campaign and may even come and pamper the party on the day of the US presidential election. on November 5 and captured a portion of the voters’ votes.
Above all known for being “the heir to a long political lineage – The Kennedy family – for his career as an environmental lawyer and for his anti-establishment positions that sometimes flirt with conspiracy”, the independent candidate also has another facet, notice it New York Times.
What we know less about him is “her enthusiasm for wildlife and nature”, an image that he likes to cultivate among the electorate, and his “fascination with birds”.
Since he was little, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had pets “peacocks, crows, owls, homing pigeons and guinea fowls”, explains the newspaper. It would even be “master of the art of falconry” and in 2005 published a children’s book dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, birds and the environment.
Recently, donors to his election campaign were invited to falconry sessions with him in exchange for their donations, the paper continues.
“Conspiracy of Crows”
His latest favorite? Tame a pair of crows that live in the garden of his luxurious home in Los Angeles. Birds “intelligent and sociable”, depending on the candidate, and “much nicer” that his pet emu, which lives permanently and has “One day attacked his wife, the actress Cheryl Hines”.
If crows don’t generally get a good press, they are a perfect symbol for the funny campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., laughs the New York daily, which recalls that in English the specific terminology for a swarm of corvids is: “A Conspiracy of Crows”.
