Taking the stage moments after a New York jury returned widespread guilty verdicts against former President Donald Trump, independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that they were both on the same page, at least when it came to cryptocurrency. is concerned.
Asked about Trump's recent about-face on cryptocurrency, Kennedy said: “I'm glad he did that. »
“More politicians and (SEC Chairman) Gary Gensler have also come to create the ETF for Ethereum, and I think those are promising,” he continued. “Are they politically motivated? Probably, but I'm not going to get into their motivations. I'm just happy they're doing it.
The approval of Ethereum spot ETFs was seen as a potential radical change in crypto policy, although Gensler has made no public comment on his agency's action.
Kennedy praised the fact that “more people are recognizing the importance of cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin in particular, in my opinion – and the importance of having decentralized currencies that can reinvigorate our country, that can make our country once again a hub of innovation for entrepreneurship”.
He positioned the cryptocurrency debate as one about “empowering individuals – the power to keep their wealth without dilution, the power to transport wealth across borders without the government confiscating it from you” . He said the country needed “a base currency that would keep us out of war.”
The explosive emergence of artificial intelligence, Kennedy said, has only strengthened his conviction to embrace the crypto community.
“The reason I was drawn to this community in the first place is the re-democratization of American society, the transparency, the integrity and the freedom to have resistance mechanisms – especially with the rise of the AI and all these totalitarian and dystopian technologies. this can be used to harvest our data but also for government surveillance and control.
“We need something to protect us now, to protect our values, our democracy, our transparency,” he continued. The obvious way to do this is to fix the electoral system through blockchain and blockchain.
Kennedy, however, made it clear that he strongly opposed the newly convicted former president.
“I'm not a fan of Trump, I'm running against him,” Kennedy continued, saying Trump had increased the U.S. national debt by $8 trillion. “He shut down our country after promising he would run America like a business, he dragged our country into (a) foreign war – the division in our country is largely due to him and Biden and that's not all. This is not a good thing for our country. »
Kennedy also criticized the prosecution, saying the trial and its outcome only strengthened Trump's appeal among some voters.
“I think this is the weakest case against him, I believe it will end up helping President Trump with a large portion of the American public,” he said.
As for his electoral prospects as an independent third-party candidate, Kennedy pushed back on the idea that his campaign has critical support from the president. Biden.
“My supporters, if I'm not in the race, will vote for President Trump,” he said, citing a poll his team conducted that shows him beating both major party candidates in a head-to-head contest. theoretical face-to-face. “There is no condition under which President Biden can win.”
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