Robert F Kennedy Jr announced as speaker at hard-right CPAC event

Kennedy is set next week to transform his Democratic presidential run into an independent campaign

Robert F Kennedy Jr, the attorney, conspiracy theorist and political gadfly set to next week transform his run for the Democratic presidential nomination into an independent campaign, was announced on Friday as a speaker at an event staged by the hard-right Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.

Robert F Kennedy Jr has a unique voice in advocating for the defunding of the weaponised bureaucracy and ensuring the constitutional right of medical freedom," said the CPAC chair, Matt Schlapp.