RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets.

SCOTUS Helps Trump • Should Joe Go? • Revisiting LBJ’s Decision [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets. Good Tuesday morning! The Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling yesterday on presidential immunity could not only delay the DOJ’s election subversion case against Donald Trump, [writes]( Eric Lutz, but potentially pave the way for future White House occupants to operate with impunity. The conservative-majority court, Bess Levin [writes](, “just made the prospect of a second Trump term even scarier than it already was.” Meanwhile, Joe Hagan [goes deep]( on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., revealing what friends and family members really think of the political scion’s presidential run. “The portrait family members paint of Bobby is of a man of exceptional charm, wit, brains, and generosity who has championed important environmental causes,” he writes, “but whose worst traits—an unnerving ease with blending fact and fiction; a powerful ability to deny the collateral damage of his own destructive actions—have engulfed his better angels.” And on the Joe Biden front, Molly Jong-Fast [urges]( caution amid the pundit push to swap out the president from the ticket, noting that a brokered convention could be a political and logistical nightmare, while historian Jonathan Darman [revisits]( Lyndon Johnson’s historic decision to drop his reelection bid in 1968, just months before Democrats convened in Chicago. [RFK Jr.’s Family Doesn’t Want Him to Run. Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets.]( By [Joe Hagan]( [A shocking photograph. Blowback from a Trump meeting. Alleged sexual assault. The Kennedys have voiced support for Joe Biden, but certain aspects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s character are only just now coming to light.]( [Read more button](   [Let’s Slow the Rush to Dump Joe]( By [Molly Jong-Fast]( [Tune out the West Wing fan fiction. Swapping out the president at this stage in the race would be a political—and logistical—nightmare.]( [Read more button](   [The Supreme Court Just Made the Prospect of a Second Trump Term Even Scarier Than It Already Was]( By [Bess Levin]( [“The president is now a king.”]( [Read more button](   [What Biden Can Learn From LBJ’s Decision to Drop Out in 1968]( By [Jonathan Darman]( [A presidential historian explains how the events of 1968 can, and can’t, help us make sense of our chaotic present.]( [Read more button](   [Supreme Court Immunity Decision Could Put Donald Trump “Above the Law”]( By [Eric Lutz]( [The conservative majority’s ruling potentially paves the way for presidents to act with impunity, legal experts warn, as well as further delay the DOJ’s election subversion case against Trump. Justice Sotomayor dissented, “With fear for our democracy.”]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast