Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey has endorsed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for president - insisting he is the candidate with the best shot at beating Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.
Aired on the social media giant on Sunday, the endorsement was accompanied with a clip of the longshot 2024 candidate - who, like Dorset, is a fierce advocate of Bitcoin - in which he tore into the two conservatives believed to be the frontrunners.
Featuring a chyron that read: 'Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. argues he can beat Trump and DeSantis in 2024', the 21-minute spot over the weekend saw the 69-year-old nephew of JFK repeatedly explain why the duo are not fit for the Oval Office.
Instead of Biden - the incumbent thought to be the left's best chance at the White House - Kennedy touted himself as the best bet at a Democratic win, despite being the only candidate with a criminal record, including a felony for possessing heroin.
In apparent agreement was ex-Twitter exec Dorsey, 46, who stepped down as CEO in 2021 following a series of controversies including the alleged suppression of tweets during the 2020 election.
'He can and will,' wrote Dorsey, in a pointed post that served as a response to the aforementioned assertion seen in the Fox graphic.
When commenters weighed in to ask whether he was endorsing or predicting, the billionaire San Francisco resident offered yet another curt reply - simply writing, 'Both.'
Within minutes, Dorsey - who in 2019 donated millions to the campaigns of 2020 presidential busts Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang - was hit with perhaps the most pressing matter in regard to a potential Kennedy primary win: that the DNC would never bring another candidate and risk pulling votes away from Biden, 80.
'The DNC would never allow that, are you kidding??' the user wrote - to which Dorset cryptically replied: 'True but they seem to be more irrelevant by the day.'
When confronted by another commenter's assertion that 'one politician isn't going to fix [the country's current] situation, Dorsey again offered a somewhat vague, albeit foreboding statement, tweeting just two words: 'None will.'
Dosey's unexpected seal of approval came days after Kennedy - an outspoken anti-vaccine who has surfaced as a more moderate alternative to Biden - hit the campaign trail this week for the first time since launching his bid back in April.
The son of the slain Robert F. Kennedy, the outspoken cryptocurrency advocate once had the reputation of being a serial womanizer and abusing drugs in the wake of his uncle and fathers deaths - culminating in a felony charge of possessing heroin aboard an airline flight to Rapid City in 1984.
At the time, John Fitzgerald, one of the more centrist conspiracy theorist's many lawyers, said Kennedy ''was coming to South Dakota for treatment, realizing he had a problem' with drugs.
Clean for the past several decades - not including a 2019 arrest for protesting climate change at the U.S. Capitol with celebs such as Jane Fonda, more recently, he's made waves as a prominent anti-vaxxer.
'I told my wife the other day, I said, I've got so many skeletons in my closet that if they could vote, I could be king of the world,' Kennedy told supporters during his nearly two hour-long speech at a hotel in Boston announcing his unexpected bid.
In advance of the speech, the Kennedy campaign launched its website, which included six priorities for the Democratic candidate.
In a section on 'honest government,' the Democratic hopeful says that special interests are too entrenched with the government agencies that are supposed to monitor them.
'Wall Street controls the SEC. Polluters and extractive industries dominate the EPA and BLM. Pharma controls the CDC, NIH, and FDA. Big Ag controls the USDA. Big Tech has captured the FTC,' Kennedy said. 'No wonder trust in government is at all-time lows. It's time to earn it back.'
In order to disentangle these entities, Kennedy - who is married to Curb Your Enthusiasm actress Cheryl Hines - said he would 'protect whistleblowers and prosecute officials who abuse the public trust.'
'We will rein in the lobbyists and slam shut the revolving door that shunts people from government agencies to lucrative positions in the companies they were supposed to regulate, and back again,' the candidate added.
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