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RFK Jr. apologizes after Trump phone call recording posted online

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has apologized to Donald Trump after a private conversation with the Republican nominee for U.S. president was shared to social media.

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On Tuesday morning, the third party candidate in the presidential race said the recording of the phone call shouldn’t have happened.

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“When President Trump called me I was taping with an in-house videographer,” Kennedy wrote on social media site X. “I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologize to the president.”

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The call was made in the wake of Trump being injured in an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon.

In their conversation, Trump — who was put on speakerphone — spoke about vaccines and claimed they were hurting children. He also talked about his reaction to being hit in the ear by a bullet.

“I just turned my head to show the chart and something rapped me, it felt like the world’s largest mosquito,” Trump said.

“And it was, it was a bullet going around, you know, what do they call it, an AR-15 or something. That was a big gun. Those are pretty tough guns, right.”

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Kennedy, a long-shot presidential candidate, has had a tough month on the campaign trail.

In early July, Vanity Fair published a story after obtaining a picture that showed him and an unidentified woman posing with what appeared to be a cooked dog in South Korea.

In the photo, Kennedy mimics taking a bite out of the animal.

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Kennedy denied the accusation that he ate a dog, saying the carcass was actually a goat.

“It’s a goat,” Kennedy told News Nation host Chris Cuomo. “And it’s in Patagonia. It’s a river trip that I used to do … every year. That’s what everyone eats down there, it’s goats.

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