Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appears to be the one White House hopeful suddenly most open to discussing his past medical issues, a willingness some experts are describing as \u2018bizarre.\u2019<\/p>\n
Revelations earlier this month that Kennedy once had a parasite infecting his brain led the candidate to openly talk about the incident in a number of interviews, which included him bringing up other medical problems he frequently talked about years before running for president, including mercury poisoning.<\/p>\n
\u2018Having brain worms, bragging about getting mercury poisoning and generally being weird doesn\u2019t instill confidence in voters, and it\u2019s definitely bizarre,\u2019 Democratic strategist Eric Koch told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Robert F. Kennedy Jr can\u2019t expect people to take him seriously as a candidate if he\u2019s openly telling them he might not be fit to lead.<\/p>\n
\u2018Revelations\u00a0like this are why his poll numbers are tanking. The more people learn about RFK Jr., the clearer it is that his vanity project campaign isn\u2019t worth wasting a vote over,\u2019 he added, referencing what some polls suggest is a slow-down in support for Kennedy. Other polls suggest he holds a steady double-digit level of support nationally.<\/p>\n
Republican strategist and Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe called Kennedy\u2019s sudden openness about his medical problems \u2018a weird flex\u2019 considering Biden \u2018is essentially a \u2018Weekend at Bernie\u2019s\u2019 candidate.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018You would think that you would want to project strength in this race as opposed to weakness, so it\u2019s a little bit of an odd strategy. The irony is that Donald Trump, at 77, is the one with the stamina in this race. He\u2019s outworking and outhustling everyone else while they\u2019re trying to throw him in jail and bankrupt him at the same time,\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n
Kennedy\u2019s experience with the brain-eating worm was unearthed in a New York Times article published earlier this month, which cited a deposition from 2012 stating the candidate was called by a doctor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital after physicians had noticed a dark spot on his brain scans and that he had complained of memory loss and a mental fogginess.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kennedy recalled the doctor telling him the spot \u2018was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.\u2019 He had, however, told the Times in an interview months prior that he recovered from the previously disclosed memory loss.<\/p>\n
He said in the same interview he had suffered from atrial fibrillation for decades, including being hospitalized four times, but that he had not had an incident related to the condition for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n
Kennedy told both the Times and Ben Shapiro\u2019s \u2018Pushing the Limits\u2019 podcast the day following the worm revelations that he experienced mercury poisoning around the same time he was infected with the parasite and underwent treatment to rid his system of the metal.<\/p>\n
\u2018At the same time, I was having my mercury tested, and I was getting all kinds of tests. And my mercury test came back sky-high \u2026 ten times what the EPA levels were for blood mercury, I think it was,\u2019 Kennedy told the program. \u2018They were over ten times what anybody considered safe, and I had that chelated out, and all of that brain fog went away.\u2019<\/p>\n
Kennedy, however, frequently talked about battling mercury poisoning in interviews going back to at least 2004, years before dealing with the parasite.<\/p>\n
\u2018I have so much mercury in my body \u2026 that if I were a woman of childbearing years, I would have children with cognitive impairment \u2026 probably a permanent IQ loss of five to seven points,\u2019 Kennedy said during an appearance on C-SPAN in September 2004.<\/p>\n
He said in multiple subsequent interviews in 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012 he had \u2018recently\u2019 been found to have high levels of mercury in his blood, leading to memory loss.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital has reached out to Kennedy\u2019s campaign for comment.<\/p>\n
Fox News\u2019 Howard Kurtz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n
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