Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded on Wednesday to the reveal that a worm previously crawled into his brain, ate part of it, and died by claiming that he could “eat 5 more brain worms and still beat President Trump and President Biden in a debate.” He added: “I feel confident of the result even with a six-worm handicap.”
The declaration was clearly an attempt to suggest that even though the worm left him with “cognitive problems,” including “short-term memory loss” and “longer-term memory loss,” he is still mentally stronger than his competition for the White House. (Kennedy told The New York Times that he had recovered from the cognitive issues caused by the parasite that got into his brain. A spokesperson for the candidate scoffed at the idea that he might be unfit to serve as president—even though, again, Kennedy himself said the worm had significantly impacted his cognitive abilities.)
Kennedy had already challenged Donald Trump to a debate before the worm story came out, telling the ex-president in an open letter that he was “drawing a lot of voters from your former supporters” and that an upcoming Libertarian Party convention, at….
