Environmental lawyer and long-shot presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced his running mate, and it was apparently enough to catch the attention of the 45th president.

Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was either up very late or very early Wednesday morning, when he took to his Truth Social media platform at 2 a.m. to offer his thoughts on the pseudo-scion of the once-powerful Kennedy political family.

“RFK Jr. is the most Radical Left Candidate in the race, by far. He’s a big fan of the Green New Scam, and other economy killing disasters. I guess this would mean he is going to be taking votes from Crooked Joe Biden, which would be a great service to America,” Trump wrote, capitalization his.

The only person leaning left of Kennedy in the 2024 race for the White House, according to the former president, is the Silicon Valley millionaire lawyer he’s attached to his campaign.

“His running mate, Nicole Shanahan, is even more ‘Liberal’ than him, if that’s possible. Kennedy is a Radical Left Democrat, and always will be,” Trump wrote.

As is usual for the former president, he found a way to view Kennedy’s political moves through a Trump-colored lens, suggesting his own legal predicaments mean that the son of assassinated former Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and his new running mate should have their lawyers’ contact information close at hand.

“It’s great for MAGA, but the Communists will make it very hard for him to get on the Ballot. Expect him, and her, to be indicted any day now, probably for Environmental Fraud,” Trump wrote.

Kennedy teased a White House bid as a Democrat last year but soon dropped his party affiliation in favor of an independent run at the office once held by his uncle, 35th President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Since he entered the race, it’s been rumored he was running a “spoiler” campaign aimed at taking votes away from President Joe Biden.

“He’s a spoiler. He’s tried to coast on his family legacy and the goodwill they have in the African American community,” Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis said of Kennedy on a conference call with reporters organized by the DNC. “But the Kennedy family has denounced this lame attempt and they’ve quite frankly stood with President Biden.”

According to Kennedy, that’s only about half right.

“Our campaign is a spoiler. I agree with that. It is a spoiler for President Biden and for President Trump,” Kennedy said Tuesday.

Polling averages show Kennedy pulls about 10% of the vote nationally in surveys that include both major party candidates and other third-party contenders like Jill Stein and Cornel West. In a race with just Trump, Biden, and Kennedy, polling averages show RFK Jr. in third at 12.3%.

In both circumstances, Trump comes out on top.

“He is Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, not mine. I love that he is running,” Trump wrote.

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