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Star NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared to endorse Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 Democratic presidential run in his Instagram stories Tuesday night.
Rodgers, 39, reposted a reel from his friend Aubrey Marcus, host of theAubrey Marcus Podcast,where Rodgers frequently appears as a guest. All three men — Marcus, Rodgers and RFK., Jr. — seem to share staunch anti-vax views.
On the Instagram reel, which features a clip from his podcast interview with RFK Jr., Aubrey Marcus gushes about the budding politician’s “integrity,” “courage” and “wisdom,” extolling, “I believe he’s going to win. … I believe he’s going to continue to continue the legacy of his uncle, John F. Kennedy, and his father Robert Kennedy, and we talk about that a bit on this podcast.”
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Rodgers became embroiled in controversy in 2021 when he was caught in a lie about being vaccinated for COVID-19.
He tested positive for COVID-19 after previously stating that he had been “immunized” ahead of the football season that year. Two days later, he revealed that he hadn’t been vaccinated, claiming it was because hewas allergicto an ingredient in the mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna) shots. Instead, Rodgers said he was following his own “immunization protocol” with ivermectin, a drug that hasn’t been authorized to address or prevent COVID-19.
He defended lying about his vaccine status when discussing the controversy with podcast host Joe Rogan, saying, “I’d been ready the entire time for this question and had thought about how I wanted to answer it. And I had come to the conclusion I’m going to say, ‘I’ve been immunized.’ And if there’s a follow-up, then talk about my process.”
“But, [I] thought there’s a possibility that I say ‘I’m immunized,’ maybe they understand what that means, maybe they don’t. Maybe they follow up. They didn’t follow up,” he explained. “So then I go the season [with] them thinking, some of them, that I was vaccinated.”
“And then…I contract COVID in the beginning of November, end of October. And that’s when the s— storm hit, because now I’m a liar, I’m endangering the community, my teammates, all these people,” he said.
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source: people.com
