Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s whale tale keeps growing, with the former presidential candidate turned supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over the weekend saying he has been told he is under investigation related to a decades-old incident involving a dead whale carcass.
Speaking at a Trump campaign rally in Arizona on Saturday, the former champion of environmental causes and new surrogate for the former president, told an audience that he received a letter from the federal government. This document indicated that officials were apparently examining an incident when Kennedy allegedly severed the head from a dead whale, bungie-corded it to the roof of his family van and drove it home to Mount Kisco, New York.
“I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago,” Kennedy told a rally at Arizona Christian University in Glendale, according to media reports, adding that the alleged probe offers further evidence of “the weaponization of our government against political opponents.”
Kennedy appears to be referring to the National Marine Fisheries Service, which is also known as NOAA Fisheries.
