JFK Heir Names Exactly How Trump Could Win Kennedy ‘Courage’ Award In Blunt Takedown | EUROtoday

Jack Schlossberg — a Democratic congressional candidate and grandson of late President John F. Kennedy — listed off a number of methods Donald Trump might obtain the Profile in Courage Award, an honor created by the Kennedy household.

Schlossberg, who seems to be to exchange retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) in a crowded race for his House seat, appeared on MS NOW on Sunday when host Jackie Alemany requested him concerning the honor, Trump’s “love of receiving awards” and the president’s “proclivity” for issues tied to the Kennedy title.

“Is there anything that would ever warrant your family’s consideration of Donald Trump receiving this award?” requested Alemany of the distinction given to officers whose “actions demonstrate the qualities of politically courageous leadership in the spirit of” Kennedy’s e-book, “Profiles in Courage,” per the JFK Library’s web site.

Schlossberg, a fierce Trump critic who sits on the award committee, laid out his standards.

“If President Trump admitted to the many crimes and the grift that he has committed while president in office, stepped down and handed over the power of the presidency to somebody responsible and not somebody in his own cabinet,” the 33-year-old Democrat started.

Schlossberg continued, “If he came forward with all the true reasons behind his pick for RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services and who is paying for the words that are coming out of RFK Jr.’s mouth, then maybe that would be some kind of courage that we would consider.”

He concluded, “But, to be honest, I don’t think he’s in the running anytime soon.”

Schlossberg’s feedback add to his historical past of criticizing his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his HHS management.

Last yr, he requested Kennedy’s spouse, former “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines, if she might name up the household of a kid who died of measles and apologize to them.

The feedback had been a reference to a measles outbreak in Texas on the time. Under Kennedy, measles circumstances within the U.S. rose to a document excessive final yr and three individuals died of the illness, which marked the primary reported deaths of measles within the nation in a couple of decade.

The Profile In Courage award has gone to a number of anti-Trump Republicans in recent times together with former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), ex-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and former Vice President Mike Pence, the latter of whom was acknowledged “for putting his life and career on the line to ensure the constitutional transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021,” in line with the JFK Library Foundation.

This yr’s recipients had been Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell for his “years of personal attacks and threats from the highest levels of government,” a nod by the inspiration to Powell’s refusal to cave to Trump, in addition to “the people of the Twin Cities, Minnesota” who protested the president’s immigration insurance policies.