On July 16, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr writes: "When President Trump called me I was taping with an in-house videographer. I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologize to the President." Source: https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1813198830281593269 Leaked phone call video: https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1813201574518288387 ................. In Leaked Phone Call, Trump Tries To Coax Kennedy Into His Camp By Jonathan Weisman New York Times Tue, July 16, 2024 https://www.yahoo.com/news/leaked-phone-call-trump-tries-161007002.html MILWAUKEE - A leaked video of a phone call between former President Donald Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the day after the attempted assassination of Trump offered a behind-the-scenes look into the former president's efforts to coax Kennedy out of the race and into his camp. A video of Trump's call with RFK Jr. was leaked -- Trump talks about vaccines, tells RFK Jr. doing something with him would be "big," mentioned his call with Biden and said the bullet was like "the world's largest mosquito." RFK Jr apologized for the leak. -- Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) July 16, 2024 https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1813201574518288387 The video was first posted early Tuesday morning by Kennedy's eldest son, Bobby Kennedy III, and then swiftly deleted, according to screenshots of the original message and a person briefed on the matter. The younger Kennedy criticized Trump for his vice-presidential pick and said he wanted to expose his "real opinion" on vaccinations. The video provides a glimpse of the private relationship between Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who have long been friendly, though Trump has publicly criticized Kennedy during the campaign. Kennedy apologized for the leaked video almost immediately on X, the same social media site where the video first appeared Tuesday morning. "When President Trump called me I was taping with an in-house videographer," he wrote. "I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted." Over Kennedy's speaker phone, Trump, the Republican nominee, can first be heard describing scientifically baseless concerns about vaccinations -- an issue Kennedy is closely associated with -- expressing disbelief at the volume of vaccinations given to infants. "I want to do small doses," Trump said, before observing that the practice of giving multiple vaccinations at once means the shot "looks like it's meant for a horse, not uh, you know, a 10-pound or 20-pound baby." Kennedy and the organization he co-founded, Children's Health Defense, have for years promoted claims about the health risks of childhood vaccines that have repeatedly been refuted by studies. "And then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically, I've seen it too many times," Trump said.