Writer Kurt Andersen claims RFK Jr. sold him cocaine at Harvard
A former classmate at Harvard has come forward to allege RFK Jr. was a cocaine dealer at Harvard, just hours after RFK Jr. dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump.
In a piece for the Atlantic entitled, “RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer,” Kurt Andersen details an occasion at Harvard in the early 1970s when he says he bought cocaine from RFK Jr. and his brother Joe.
“As a teenager in Nebraska, I’d smoked cannabis and dropped acid before I got to Harvard in 1972. Sometime during my freshman year, I tried cocaine, enjoyed it, and later decided to procure a gram for myself. A friend told me about a kid in our class who was selling coke.
“The dealer was Bobby Kennedy. I’d never met him. I got in touch; he said sure, come over to his room in Hurlbut, his dorm, where I’d never been, a five-minute walk.”
Andersen says that RFK Jr. gave him cocaine for $40 and a plastic straw to snort it. After snorting the drug in Kennedy’s dorm, Andersen left—with the straw in his possession.
Kennedy then furiously called him to demand he return the straw, because it was “growing crystals” inside it from the residual cocaine and nasal mucus.
Andersen claims this sour ending to the deal shows Kennedy’s true character.
“His almost fetishistic obsession with a bit of plastic trash. His greedy little burst of anger cloaked in righteousness. His faith that he was cultivating precious cocaine crystals. In retrospect, it has seemed to me a tiny illustration of the child as the father of the man he became: fantastical pseudoscientific crusader, middle-aged preppy dick who takes selfies with barbecued dogs and plays pranks with roadkill bear cubs he didn’t have time to eat.”
Andersen is quite frank in the piece about his motivation for revealing this episode: RFK’s endorsement of Donald Trump for president, which took place just a few hours before Andersen’s piece was published.
In particular, Andersen says he wants to highlight the hypocrisy of RFK Jr. endorsing a man who has repeatedly claimed that drug dealers should be executed.
Kennedy has made no secrets of his past struggles with drug addiction, which began during his teens. He was arrested in 1970 in Cape Cod for marijuana possession, and later suffered a near-fatal overdose on a flight.
