English translation of Kennedy's speech

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins the Trump campaign. His impressive, sometimes heartbreaking speech resonates 100% with the recurring themes on this blog and I therefore fear that it will not be given the proper attention in our media. Kennedy talks about the role of the media, the dangers of an uncontrolled medical-industrial complex that also includes the most important regulators and about Ukraine, among other things. Although the latter topic is outside the scope of this blog, I choose to reproduce the speech in its entirety. This is big and important, realize that we follow America in almost everything. Hence this post.

The translation of the speech. I added subheadings and formatting myself.

Introduction, background, political consequences

Sorry to keep everyone waiting.

Sixteen months ago, in April 2023, I launched my campaign for the presidency of the United States. I started this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father and my uncle. It is the party to which I am loyal. Long before I was old enough to vote, I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six in 1960, and at that time, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution and of civil rights.

The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars. We were the party of labour, of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. Our party was the bulwark against the interests of big money and corporate power. It lived up to its name and was the party of democracy.

As you know, I left that party in October because it had deviated so dramatically from the core values I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, big tech, big ag and big money. When it failed democracy by canceling the primaries to hide the cognitive decline of the incumbent president, I left the party to run as an independent party.

The mainstream of American politics and journalism mocked my decision. Conventional wisdom said it would be impossible to even get on the ballot as an independent candidate because every state has an insurmountable jumble of arbitrary rules for collecting signatures. I would need over a million signatures, something no presidential candidate in history had ever achieved, and then I would need a team of lawyers and millions of dollars to handle all of the DNC's legal challenges.

The naysayers told us that we were climbing a glass version of the impossible mountain. The first thing I want to tell you is that we proved them wrong. We succeeded because, under the radar of the mainstream media, we inspired a mass independent political movement. More than 100,000 volunteers sprang into action, hoping they could reverse our nation's decline. Many worked 10-hour days, sometimes in blizzards and sweltering heat.

Month after month, they set up tables at churches and farmers' markets, spurred on by a shared vision of a nation healed from its divisions. They recruited door-to-door in Utah and New Hampshire.

Volunteers collected autographs in blizzards, convincing every supporter to stop in the icy cold, take off their gloves, and sign legibly during a Nevada heat wave. I met a tall, athletic volunteer who gleefully told me that he had lost 25 pounds while collecting autographs in the 117-degree heat.

To fund this effort, young Americans donated their lunch money and seniors gave up their share of Social Security. Our organization in 50 states collected those millions of signatures and counting. No presidential campaign in American political history has ever managed to do that, so I want to thank all those dedicated volunteers and congratulate the campaign staff who coordinated this massive logistical effort.

Your achievements were considered impossible. You have carried me up that glass mountain. You have performed a miracle. You have achieved what all analysts said was impossible. You have my deepest gratitude, and I will never forget that, not only for what you did for my campaign, but for the sacrifices you made because you love our country.

You have shown everyone that democracy is still possible here, it continues to survive in the press and in the idealistic human energies that still thrive under a veil of neglect and of official and institutional corruption.

I'm here today to tell you that. I will not let your efforts go to waste. I am here to tell you that I will use your great achievements to serve the ideals that we share, the ideals of peace, prosperity, freedom, health, all the ideals that have motivated my campaign.

I am here today to describe the way forward that you have opened with your dedication and hard work. I believe that in a fair system I would have won the election, in a system in which my father and my uncles flourished, in a system of open debates, in fair primaries, in regularly scheduled debates, in fair primaries and with truly independent media, untainted by government propaganda and censorship and a system of impartial courts and election councils, everything would be different.

After all, the polls showed that I would consistently beat all the other candidates, both favorably and in person-to-person confrontations. But I'm sorry to say that while democracy may still be alive at the grassroots, it has become little more than a slogan for our political institutions, for our media, and for our government, and saddest of all for me, the Democratic Party.

In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set about dismantling it because it lacked confidence that its candidate could win in a fair election at the polling booth.

The DNC was constantly waging legal warfare against both President Trump and myself. Every time our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us to court, state after state, in an effort to erase their work and undermine the will of the voters who signed those petitions. It used DNC-affiliated judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail,

It staged a mock primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then, when a predictably botched debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC agents appointed his successor, even without an election.

They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single deputy.

My uncle and my father both loved debating. They prided themselves on being able to make a fist with any opponent and compete for ideas. They would be surprised, then, to learn about a Democratic Party presidential candidate who, like Vice President Harris, hasn't appeared in a single interview or an unscripted meeting with voters in 35 days.

This is very undemocratic. How can people choose if they don't know who they are electing and how can this come across to the rest of the world? My father and my uncle were always aware of America's image abroad because of our nation's role as a template for democracy, as an example of democratic processes, and as a leader of the free world, but instead of showing us its substance and character, the DNC and its media organs have created a wave of popularity for Vice President Harris that has no basis in fact. no policy, no interviews, no debates, just smoke and mirrors and balloons in a high-production circus in Chicago.

In Chicago, Democratic speakers mentioned Donald Trump 147 times on the first day of the convention alone. Who needs policy when you have Trump to hate?

At the RNC convention, on the other hand, President Biden was mentioned only twice in four days.

I give interviews every day. Many of you have interviewed me. Anyone who asks can interview me. Some days I do as many as 10. President Trump, who was nominated and won the election, also gives daily interviews. How did the Democratic Party elect a candidate who has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle? We know the answer.

They did it by putting the government agencies in position. They did it by giving up democracy. They did it by denouncing the opposition and by depriving American voters of their right to vote. What worries me most is not how the Democratic Party runs its internal affairs or manages its candidates.

Media

What worries me is that the Democratic Party is resorting to censorship and media control and the use of (weaponizing) of the federal agencies. When a U.S. president colludes with media companies or outright forces them to censor political speech, that's an attack on our most sacred right, freedom of speech, and that is precisely the right on which all our other constitutional rights rest.

President Biden scoffed at Vladimir Putin's 88% landslide in the Russian election, noting that Putin and his party controlled the Russian press and that Putin prevented serious opponents from appearing on the ballot.

Here in America, the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot. Our television networks exposed themselves as organs of the Democratic Party over the course of more than a year. In a campaign in which my polls were sometimes in the upper 20s, the DNC-affiliated mainstream media networks maintained a near-perfect embargo on interviews with me during this 10-month presidential campaign. In 1992, ROS Perot gave 34 interviews on mainstream networks.

In contrast, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN have given only two live interviews with me in the sixteen months since my statement combined. Instead, those networks published a continuous deluge of hit pieces with inaccurate, often vicious pejoratives and slanderous slander. Some of those same networks colluded with the DNC to keep me off the debate stage.

Representatives of those networks are now in this Chamber and I would ask you to pause for a moment to reflect on the many ways in which your institutions have abandoned this truly Sacred responsibility of the media: the duty of a free press to safeguard democracy and to always challenge the party in power.

Instead of adopting that attitude of fierce skepticism of authority, your institutions have made themselves mouthpieces of government and stenographers for the organs of power. You were not the only ones who caused the devolution of American democracy, but You could have prevented it.

The Democratic Party's censorship of social media was even more of a naked exercise of executive power. This week, a federal judge, Terry Doughty, affirmed my order against President Biden, calling the White House censorship project, quote, "The most egregious violation of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America. The 155-page decision describes in detail how President Biden and his White House, just 37 hours after taking the oath of office and swearing to uphold the Constitution, opened a portal and then invited the CIA, the FBI and CISA, which is a censorship agency.

It's the center of the censorship-industrial complex, DHS, the IRS and other agencies, they censor me and other political dissidents on social media. Even today, users who try to post my campaign videos on Facebook or YouTube get messages that this content violates community standards.

Two days after Judge Doughty issued his ruling this week, Facebook was still putting warning labels on an online petition calling on ABC to include me in the upcoming debate. They said this is against the community standards, their community standards.

From Mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles and has now joined this systematic assault on democracy. The media justifies their censorship by arguing that they want to fight misinformation, but governments and oppressors don't censor lies. They are not afraid of lies. They are afraid of the truth and they censor it.

New positioning

And I don't want this to sound like a personal complaint, because it's not. For me, it's all part of a journey, and it's a journey I've signed up for. But I have to make these observations, because I think they're crucial for us to do what we need to do as citizens in a democracy, to assess where we are in this country and what our democracy still looks like and the assumptions about U.S. leadership around the world, And do we live up to that?

Are we really still a role model for democracy in this country, or have we made some kind of joke out of it? And here's the good news: While mainstream outlets denied me a critical platform, they didn't silence my ideas, which have flourished mostly among young voters and independent voters thanks to the alternative media. Many months ago, I promised the American people that I would withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler who would change the outcome of the election but have no chance of winning.

In my heart, I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to election victory in the face of this ruthless, systematic censorship and media control. So I can't in good conscience ask my staff and volunteers to continue their long workdays, or ask my donors to keep giving if I can't honestly tell them that I have a real path to the White House.

Moreover, our polls consistently showed that, by staying on the ballot and in the battleground states, I would likely put the election in the hands of the Democrats with whom I disagree on the most existential issues, censorship, war, and chronic illness.

I want everyone to know that I'm not stopping my campaign. I'm just suspending it and not ending it. My name, my name, will remain on the ballot in most states. If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping President Trump or Vice President Harris and the exact same is true for red states. I encourage you to vote for me and if enough of you vote for me and none of the major party candidates win 270 votes, which is entirely possible. In fact, our polls today show that they are tied at 269 to 269 and it is conceivable that I will still end up in the White House in a conditional election.

But in about 10 battleground states where my presence would be a bummer, I'm going to remove my name, and I've already begun that process and I'm urging voters not to vote for me, it's with a sense of victory and not defeat that I'm suspending my campaign activities.

Not only did we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures, We have changed the national political conversation forever: chronic illness, free speech, government corruption, and breaking our addiction to war have shifted to the center of politics.

I can say to everyone who has worked so hard over the past year and a half: thank you for the good work.

First of all, there were three major causes that pushed me to enter this race, and these are the main causes that persuaded me to leave the democratic Democratic Party and run as an independent and to now give my support to President Trump.

The causes were free speech, a war in Ukraine and the war against our children.

Ukraine

I've already described some of my personal experiences and struggles with a government censorship industrial complex. I would like to say a few words about the war in Ukraine. The military-industrial complex has provided us with a familiar comic book justification, as they do in any war. In this case, it's a noble attempt to stop a supervillain, Vladimir Putin, from invading Ukraine, and then thwart his Hitler-like advance across Europe.

In fact, tiny Ukraine is a proxy in a geopolitical struggle, initiated by the ambitions of the U.S. neocons or U.S. global hegemony. I don't condemn Putin for invading Ukraine. He had other options. The war is Russia's predictable response to the reckless neocon project of expanding NATO to encircle Russia, a hostile act.

The gullible media rarely explained to the Americans that we unilaterally walked away from two Intermediate Nuclear Weapons treaties with Russia and then nuclear where every age placed missile systems in Romania and Poland. This is a hostile, hostile act the white the and that the Biden White House repeatedly rejected Russia offer to settle this war peacefully.

The war in Ukraine began in 2014 when U.S. agencies overthrew Ukraine's democratically elected government and installed a self-elected pro-Western government that began a deadly civil war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine. In 2019, America walked away from a peace treaty, the Minsk Agreement, negotiated by European countries between Russia and Ukraine.

And then, in April 2022, we wanted war. In April 2022, President Biden sent Boris Johnson to Ukraine to force President Zelensky to tear up a peace deal he and the Russians had already signed, and the Russians withdrew troops from Kyiv and Donbas and Luhansk.

And that peace deal would have brought peace to the region and would have allowed Donbas and Luhansk to remain part of Ukraine. President Biden stated that month that this goal, that his goal in the war was a regime change in Russia, his Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, at the same time explained that America's goal in the war was to exhaust the Russian military, to reduce the military's ability to fight anywhere else in the world.

These goals, of course, have nothing to do with what they told the Americans about protecting Ukraine's sovereignty. Ukraine is a victim in this war and it is a victim of the West. Since then, we have been ending Russia, and both Russia and the West.

Since then, we have torn up that agreement, forced Zelensky to tear up the agreement, squandered the flower of Ukrainian youth, as many as 600,000 Ukrainian children and more than 100,000 Russian children, all of whom we should mourn, have died, and Ukraine's infrastructure has been destroyed. The war is also a disaster for our country. We've already wasted nearly $200 billion, and these are much-needed dollars in our communities, suffering communities across our country.

The sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline and sanctions have destroyed Europe's industrial base, which is the bulwark of our national security. A strong Germany with a strong industry is a much, much stronger deterrent to Russia, and a Germany that is deindustrialized and turned into just an extension of the U.S. military base, we're pushing Russia into a disastrous alliance with China and Iran is closer to the brink of a nuclear exchange than at any time since 1962 and the neocons and the White House don't seem to care about that at all pull. Our moral authority and our economy are shattered, and the war has led to the rise of the Brics, which now threatens to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency.

This is a first-class disaster for our country. Judging by her bellicose, bellicose speech last night in Chicago, we can assume that President Harris will be an enthusiastic advocate for this and other neocon military adventures, and President Trump says he will reopen negotiations with President Putin and end the war overnight once he is president, This alone would justify my support for his campaign.

Last summer, it seemed that no candidate was willing to negotiate a quick end to the war in Ukraine, to address the chronic disease epidemic, to protect free speech and our constitutional freedoms, to eliminate corporate influence from our government, or to defy the neocons and their agenda of endless military adventurism. Yes, but now one of the two candidates has made these things his own, to the point where he has asked for me to be included in his government. I'm talking, of course, about Donald Trump.

Public health

Less than two hours after President Trump narrowly escaped assassination, Calley Means called me on my cell phone, I was in Las Vegas at the time. Calley is arguably the most important advocate for food safety, for soil regeneration, and for ending the chronic disease epidemic that is ravaging America's health and ruining our economy. Calley has the insidious corruption at the FDA and the NIH, the HHS and the USDA that caused the epidemic.

Calley worked on and off for my campaign, advising me on these topics from the beginning and these topics have been my primary focus for the last 20 years, I was delighted when Calley told me that day that he had also advised President Trump.

He told me that President Trump would like to talk to me about chronic illness and other topics and to explore avenues of cooperation. He asked me to take a call from the president. President Trump called me a few minutes later and I met with him the next day.

A few weeks later, I met with President Trump and his family members and close advisers again in Florida in a series of long, intense conversations. I was surprised to find that we agree on many important issues.

During these meetings, he proposed that we join forces as a united party. We talked about Abraham Lincoln's Team of Rivals. That arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately and furiously, if necessary, on matters on which we disagree, while working together on the existential issues on which we agree.

I was fiercely critical of many of the policies during his first administration. There are still issues and approaches on which we have serious differences of opinion. However, we are on the same page on other important issues, such as ending the wars forever, ending the teething epidemics, securing the border, protecting free speech, unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting rid of the U.S. intelligence agencies for propagating and censoring and surveilling Americans, and meddling in our elections.

After my first conversation with President Trump, I tried unsuccessfully to have similar conversations with Vice President Harris. Vice President Harris refused to meet with me or even speak to me. Suspending my candidacy is a hard decision for me, and I am convinced that the best hope is to end the war in Ukraine and end the epidemic of chronic diseases that is eroding the vitality of our nation from within, and to finally protect freedom of expression.

I feel a moral obligation to use this opportunity to save millions of American children above all else. In case some of you don't realize how serious our children's health conditions and chronic illnesses in general are, I urge you to check out Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Calley Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, who is top of her class at Stanford Medical School.

This is an issue that affects all of us far more directly and urgently than any culture war and all the other issues that we are obsessed with and that are tearing our country apart, this is the most important issue and that is why it has the potential to bring us together.

So let me tell you a little bit why I think it's so urgent today, we spend more on health care than any country on earth, twice as much as what they pay in Europe, and yet we have the worst health outcomes of any country in the world.

We rank 79th in health outcomes behind Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mongolia and other countries. No one has such a chronic burden of disease as we do. And during the Covid epidemic, we had the highest number of deaths of any country in the world. We had 16% of the Covic deaths and we only have 4.2% of the world's population. And CDC says that's because we're the sickest people on earth.

We have the highest rate of chronic disease on Earth, and the average American who died from covid diseases had 3.8 chronic diseases. So these were people with a collapsed immune system and mitochondrial dysfunction, and no other country has anything like this. Two-thirds of U.S. adults and children suffer from chronic health conditions. 50 years ago, it was less than 1%.

Oh, we went from 1% to 66% in America. 74% of Americans are now overweight or obese, and 50% of our children. 120 years ago, if someone was obese, he was sent to the circus. Case reports were literally drawn up about them. Obesity was almost unknown in Japan, the childhood obesity rate is 3%, compare that to our 50%.

Half of Americans have pre-diabetes or type two diabetes. When my uncle was president, I was a boy, juvenile diabetes did not in fact exist.

A typical pediatrician would see one case of diabetes during his entire career, a career of 40 or 50 years today, one in three children who walk through the door of his office is diabetic or pre-diabetic, and the mitochondrial condition that causes diabetes also causes Alzheimer's, which is now classified as diabetes, And it costs this country more than our military budget.

Every year there is an explosion of neurological diseases that I never saw as a child, ADD, ADHD, speech delay, language delay, Tourette's syndrome, narcolepsy, ASD, Asperger's, Autism. In the year 2000, the autism rate was one in 1500. Now, the autism rate in children is one in 36, according to CDC; No one is talking about this at the national level.

One in 22 children in California has autism and this is a crisis in which 77% of our children are too disabled to serve in the U.S. military. What is happening to our country and why is this not in the news every day?

There is no one else in the world who experiences this. This only happens in 18% of cases in America and by the way, there is no change in diagnosis, which is what the industry sometimes likes to say, there is no change in screening.

This is a change in incidents. In my generation, 70-year-old men, the autism rate is about one in 10,000. In my children's generation, it's one in 34. I repeat: in California one in 22. Why do we let this happen? Why do we let this happen to our children?

Our children are our most precious possessions. How can we let this happen to them? About 18% of American teens now have fatty liver disease. That's like one in five who only affected older alcoholics in an advanced stage as a child. Cancer rates are skyrocketing, and this applies to both young and old people: cancer rates among young adults have risen by 70-79%,

One in four American women uses antidepressants. 40% of teams have a mental health diagnosis, 15% of high school students use Adderall, and half a million children use SSRIs. What causes this suffering?

So what causes this suffering? I will mention two culprits, the first and the worst is ultra-processed food. About 70% of the diet of American children is ultra-processed, that is, industrially manufactured in a factory. These foods consist mainly of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains and seed oils.

Laboratory scientists, many of whom used to work for the cigarette industry, which bought up all the major food companies in the 1970s and 1980s, used thousands of scientists to develop chemicals, new chemicals, to make food more addictive. And these ingredients did not exist 100 years ago. Humans are not biologically adapted to eat them.

Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe, but ubiquitous in U.S. processed foods. The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicines, in our environment, pesticides, food additives, pharmaceutical drugs and toxic waste that enter every cell of our body.

This assault on our children's cells and hormones is relentless and name a problem: many of these chemicals increase estrogen levels because they are young. Children ingest so many of these endocrine disruptors. In America, puberty now occurs at the age of 10 to 13, which is six years earlier than girls entered puberty in 1900.

And no, this is not due to better nutrition. Breast cancer is also caused by estrogens and now affects one in eight women. We are poisoning all our children and adults en masse. Given the serious human cause of this tragic epidemic of chronic disease, it seems almost blunt to mention the damage it is doing to our economy, but I will say that it is crippling the country's finances.

When my uncle was president, our country spent 0 dollars on chronic diseases. Today, government health care spending is almost all for chronic disease, and it's double the military budget, and it's the fastest budget, a growing budget item in the federal budget, chronic disease costs more to the economy as a whole, costing at least $4,000,000,000,000. 5 times our military budget.

And that's a 20% brake on everything we do and everything we strive for. Or in minority communities, disproportionately many people who are concerned about DEI or about, you know, bigotry of any kind suffer, this trumps everything. We poison the poor. We are systematically poisoning minorities throughout this country.

Industry lobbyists have ensured that the majority of the food stamp lunch program, about 70% of food stamps, and 70 or 77% of school lunches are processed foods. There are no vegetables in it. There is nothing you would want to eat. We are poisoning the poorest citizens and that is why they have the most chronic diseases of all population groups in our country and the most in the world.

The same food industry has lobbied to ensure that almost all agricultural subsidies benefit staple crops that are the raw material for the processed food industry. This policy is destroying small farms and our soil. We subsidize tobacco about eight times as much as we do fruit and vegetables.

That makes no sense if we want a healthy country. The good news is that we can change all of this. We can change it very, very quickly. America can become healthy again. To do that, we need to do three things.

First, we need to eradicate corruption in our health institutions. Second, we need to change the incentives in our healthcare system. And third, we need to inspire Americans to get healthy again.

Eighty percent of NIH grants go to people with conflicts of interest. These are the people, almost all of them. Joe Biden just appointed a new panel at NIH to decide on the dietary recommendations, and they're all industry people. They are all people from the processed food companies. They determine what is healthy for Americans and what the recommendations are for the food pyramid and the recipe and what goes to our school lunch programs, what goes to the program, the Swiss program, the food stamp programs.

They are all corrupt and contradictory individuals. These agencies – the FDA, USDA, and CDC – are all controlled by large for-profit corporations. Seventy-five percent of the FDA's funding comes not from taxpayers, but from pharmaceutical companies, and pharmaceutical managers, consultants, and lobbyists walk in and out of these agencies.

With the support of President Trump, I am going to change that. We are going to staff these agencies with honest scientists and doctors who are free from industry funding. We are going to make sure that the decisions of consumers, doctors and patients are informed by unbiased science. A sick child is best for the pharmaceutical industry on American children or adults who get sick with a chronic condition, they are given medication for their entire lives.

Imagine what happens if Medicare starts paying for Ozempic, which costs $1,500 per month, and it's recommended for children as young as six years old. To offer it for the condition obesity that is completely preventable and barely existed 100 years ago, and 74% of Americans are obese.

The cost if they all took their prescription for Ozempic is $3 trillion per year. This drug is made by Novo Nordisk, the largest company in Europe. It is a Danish company and the Danish government does not recommend it. She recommends diet change to treat obesity and exercise.

And in our country, ozempic is now recommended for children from the age of six. Novo Nordisk is the largest company in Europe and pretty much all of its value is based on the projections of what it's going to sell, of the ozempic it's going to sell to America and we have the food lobbyists who have a bill before Congress today that's backed by the White House, backed by Vice President Harris and President Biden to make this happen. these $3 trillion costs that will bankrupt our country.

For a fraction of that amount, we can buy organic food for every American family three meals a day and eliminate diabetes altogether. We are going to bring healthy food back into the school lunches. We are going to stop subsidizing the worst food with our agricultural subsidies. We're going to get toxic chemicals out of our food, we're going to reform the entire food system, and for that we need new leadership in Washington, because unfortunately, both Democrats and Republicans are working with the big food producers, Big Pharma and Big Ag (big agriculture), who are among the major donors to the UN.

Vice President Harris has shown no interest in addressing this issue. Four more years of democratic rule will complete the consolidation of corporate and neocon power, and our children will be the ones who suffer the most.

I got involved in chronic illness 20 years ago, not because I chose or wanted to. It was forced on me. It was a topic that should have been central to the environmental movement. I was a central leader at the time, but it was widely ignored by all institutions, including the NGOs, that should have protected our children from toxic substances.

It was an orphaned issue and I had a soft spot for orphans. I have seen generations of children get sicker and sicker. I had 11 brothers and sisters and I had seven children of my own. I was aware of what was happening in their classrooms and with their friends, and I saw these Sick Kids, these damaged kids in that generation, almost all damaged, and no one with power seemed to care or even notice.

For 19 years, I prayed every morning that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The Chronic Illness crisis was one of the main reasons I ran for president, along with ending censorship in the war in Ukraine, is why I made the heartbreaking decision to suspend my campaign and support President Trump.

This decision is painful for me because of the difficulties it causes for my wife, my children and my friends, but I have the certainty that this is what I should have done, and that certainty gives me inner peace even in storms. If I get the chance to solve the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production, I promise that within two years we will see the chronic burden of disease drastically reduced.

We will make Americans healthy again. Within four years, America will be a healthy country. We will be stronger, more resilient, more optimistic and happier. I will not fail in this.

In conclusion

Ultimately, the future, however it turns out, lies in God's hands and in those of the American voters and those of President Trump.

If President Trump is elected and keeps his word, the massive burden of chronic diseases that is now demoralizing and bankrupting the country will disappear. This is a spiritual journey for me, I came to my decision through deep prayer, through hard logic and I asked myself: What choices do I need to make to maximize my chances of saving America's children and restoring national health?

I felt that if I refused this opportunity, it wouldn't be me. To look at myself in the mirror, knowing that I could have saved the lives of countless children and reversed the epidemic of chronic diseases in this country. I am 70 years old. I may have another ten years to be effective.

I can't imagine that President Harris, a President Harris, would allow me or anyone else to solve these terrible problems. After eight years of President Harris, any chance for me to solve the problem will forever be out of my reach.

President Trump has told me that he wants this to be his legacy. I choose to believe that he will see this through this time, his biggest donors, his best friends and all support this cause.

My participation in the Trump campaign will be a difficult sacrifice for my wife and children, but it is worth it if there is even a small chance of saving these children. In the end, the only thing that will save our country and our children is if we choose to love our children more than hate each other.

That's why I started my campaign to unite America.

My father and uncle left such a lasting mark on the character of our nation, not so much because of any particular policy they championed, but because they were able to inspire deep love for our country and to strengthen our sense of ourselves as a national community held together by ideals.

They were able to put their love into the intentions and hearts of ordinary Americans and to unite a national populist movement of Americans: blacks and whites, Hispanics, urban and rural Americans, and they inspired affection and love and high expectations and a culture of kindness that still radiates among Americans from their memory.

That is the spirit in which I conducted my campaign and that I want to bring into President Trump's campaign. Instead of vitriol and polarization, I will appeal to the values that unite us, the goals we could achieve if we didn't get at each other's throats.

The most unifying theme for all Americans is that we all love our children and if we all unite around that issue now, we can finally give them the protection, health, and future they deserve.

Thank you all very much. Thank you.