Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s cofounder and former CEO, has endorsed Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
On Sunday, the influential tech billionaire tweeted a Fox Information YouTube video entitled “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. argues he can beat Trump and DeSantis in 2024” writing, “He can and can.”
Requested whether or not he was endorsing or predicting, he replied, “Each.”
Kennedy, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother Robert F. Kennedy, is like Dorsey a robust believer in Bitcoin, which he just lately described as an “train in democracy.”
Final month, Kennedy delivered a well-received keynote tackle at a Bitcoin convention in Miami. He known as Bitcoin a “bulwark” in opposition to “authorities and company enlargement and intrusion.”
“As president, I’ll ensure that your proper to carry and use Bitcoin is inviolable,” he added.
He pledged to defend the fitting of self-custody of Bitcoin and different digital property. “It is best to be capable of personal your individual personal keys, the identical as you personal the keys to your automotive or personal your pockets…I don’t assume the federal government has the fitting to demand entry to your Bitcoin key or certainly any of your passwords. To say in any other case to cede important territory to surveillance state.”
An anti-vaccine activist, Kennedy often and controversially attacked Anthony Fauci, former director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments, over the best way he dealt with the pandemic, accusing him of orchestrating “fascism” and writing a e book on the subject.
When a Twitter person commented there was “not an opportunity the DNC [Democratic National Committee] permits him to be nominated,” Dorsey replied, “Much more motive.” He later added that the DNC “appears extra irrelevant by the day” and wrote “finish of an empire,” to which Tesla CEO and present Twitter proprietor Elon Musk replied with two fireplace emoji.
Earlier on Sunday, Musk tweeted that he’ll host Kennedy within the Twitter Areas audio platform on Monday afternoon. Dorsey replied to that by writing, “Wonderful.”
The occasion got here collectively rapidly, with Musk asking Kennedy Friday on Twitter, “Would you love to do a Areas dialogue with me subsequent week?” Kennedy replied within the affirmative, and Dorsey chimed in, “This could be nice.”
Twitter Areas additionally figured giant in politics final month, when Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis introduced his presidential bid there, though technical glitches marred the occasion.
On Friday night, Musk tweeted, “System is being upgraded & stress-tested prematurely of @RobertKennedyJr interview on Monday.”
When a Twitter person commented that Kennedy’s shaky voice is “a difficulty,” Dorsey replied by calling it a “tremendous energy,” saying it units the candidate aside.
