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Outliers who enter the presidential derby usually broadcast their plans before running, as Trump did, forming an exploratory committee for the office in 2000, before finally running in earnest in 2016. But outside of Dwight D. Eisenhower a genuine war hero almost never does a figure without a political resume and not so much as a previous head feint toward the White House launch a serious presidential campaign out of the blue as Kennedy did in April. Some people give more forethought to picking a dressing for their salad than Kennedy seems to have given to his run for president.

But Kennedy doesnt care that hes losing because winning the White House isnt his objective. One clue that Kennedy doesnt crave the political power that comes with the presidency is that, unlike his siblings, cousins and other Kennedy offspring (Joseph P. Kennedy II, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Patrick J. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy III, Edward M. Kennedy Jr., Mark Kennedy Shriver, Bobby Shriver), he has never sought public office. The closest he has ever come to serving in a legislature was in 2000 when he briefly considered running for Daniel Patrick Moynihans open U.S. Senate seat (which Hillary Clinton slipped into) and in 2008, when he appears to have been on the New York governors shortlist to fill the seat when Clinton vacated it to become secretary of State. Or, to give him the benefit of the doubt, it could be that Kennedy has always craved power but wanted to start at the top.

What Kennedy does undeniably desire is public attention, something his presidential campaign is delivering, with critical profiles in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time, the Atlantic and a particularly damning and comprehensive one by Rebecca Traister in New York magazine. In just a couple of months, Kennedy has gone from that anti-vaccine guy to a staple of cable news coverage, making him The Top Kennedy for now, even if much of the publicity is bad. Its always been a competitive clan, so hes got to be happy that he now occupies a larger presence in the public mind than his cousin Caroline Kennedy, an ambassador to Japan and now Australia, larger than her brother John Kennedy Jr., who dominated the headlines until his accidental death in 1999. Because its been so long since his father and famous uncles died, Bobby Jr. might even have eclipsed them as The Top Kennedy among younger voters.

The political gene, which often comes bundled with the one for narcissism, never adequately thrives until fed by some form of adulation. Even the negative adulation of the recent profiles can be read as I must be doing something right because theyre all knocking me for somebody as thirsty for attention as Kennedy. Hes winning there, too.

In just a couple of months, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gone from that anti-vaccine guy to a staple of cable news coverage. | Josh Reynolds/AP Photo

Kennedys candidacy has broadened the platform for his previously banned-by-Facebook-and-Instagram outr ideas about vaccines, not to mention his views on his fathers assassination, gender dysphoria and chemicals, antidepressants and school shootings, the CIA, and the stolen 2004 election. That adds to the considerable platform he has already built on his podcasts and his bestselling screed The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. The current campaign has and will continue to expand his exposure until he concedes the nomination to Biden.

Kennedy may have spent his career as an environmental activist and litigator on the political sidelines, but hes well aware of the dividends that can be earned from running a long-shot presidential campaign. As laid out in a recent Insider article, the typical dark horse candidacy is mostly about climbing the rungs of power. Would former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg be the secretary of Transportation today if he hadnt run in 2020? Would Kamala Harris, who polled below Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for almost the entire 2020 primary campaign, and frequently did worse than Buttigieg, have been tapped as Bidens running mate if she had not run? Would Sanders possess his current clout if not for his two unexpectedly strong forays? Failed candidacies have produced book contracts, cable TV deals, paid speaking engagements, lobbying gigs and proximity to power.

The current Kennedy moment will soon be swamped by the Biden machine. But every day this final heir to Americas second greatest political dynasty spends on the hustings, he will continue rolling up winnings like an undetected card counter in Las Vegas.

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(Below the Belt) Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mary Alice Hatch and Sen Orrin Hatch meet to discuss funding for endometriosis research, in a scene from the documentary "Below the Belt," scheduled to air Wednesday, June 21, 2023, on KUED, PBS Utah.

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The documentary Below the Belt: The Last Health Taboo is full of shocking facts about endometriosis and surprising real-life stories from women who suffer from it. And there is a bit of surprise for Utahns on the political side of the story.

Not only did the late Sen. Orrin Hatch work with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, but he praised her. And hugged her.

Hatch, who retired from the Senate in 2019 and died in April 2022, championed allocating more funds to endometriosis research. As does Warren. And Hillary Rodham Clinton. And Mitt Romney, who succeeded Hatch in the Senate.

All four current and former senators are listed as executive producers of Below the Belt, which airs Wednesday at 9 p.m. on PBS/Channel 7. Thats a fairly common way to promote a documentary, and they werent actually involved in the production.

Romney and Warren co-hosted a screening of the film in Washington, D.C., in March, and Romney jokingly acknowledged there were strange bedfellows involved: It is strange to see Elizabeth Warren and Mitt Romney promoting the same thing, he said, according to The Hill.

Hatchs involvement came about because his granddaughter, Emily Hatch Manwaring, is among the one in 10 women who suffers from endometriosis. She and her mother, Mary Alice Hatch, became advocates for more government funding for research.

(According to the Mayo Clinic, endometriosis is an often painful disorder in which tissue similar to the tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus grows outside your uterus. It can cause pain sometimes severe, and fertility problems also may develop.)

Below the Belt is filled with alarming facts: Most doctors cant diagnose endometriosis, and dont know how to treat it. It takes a decade for most women to be diagnosed. Most common treatments including hysterectomies dont work. Most health insurance wont pay for the most effective treatment.

(Rick Bowmer | AP file photo) Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, gestures to the Utah House during a 2018 visit at the Utah State Capitol.

There are multiple heart-wrenching stories told by suffering women, including Hatchs granddaughter. Hatch Manwaring began experiencing severe effects of endometriosis when she was just 13. There are home movies of her growing up, dancing, water skiing, learning to drive and then she is grimacing in pain because it feels like a knife is going through my stomach.

In an interview on PBS Newshour, Below the Belt director Shannon Cohn said endometriosis advocates began working with Orrin Hatch in 2017 and that he, his granddaughter and his daughter-in-law began really pushing endometriosis forward in a meaningful way. And that after Orrin Hatchs retirement, Sen. Mitt Romney stepped in his shoes and really pushed it forward alongside Sen. Warren.

At the March screening at the Hart Senate Office Building, Warren said, We are all here tonight, in large part, in this room, because of Orrin Hatch.

Cohen said it was wonderful to see lawmakers from both sides of the aisle come together on an issue, especially in todays political climate and to see them say, What? Its not a political issue. This is a human issue.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Mitt Romney talks with reporters during a visit to the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District's Education Center, May 5, 2023.

In a phone call with his daughter-in-law that is included in the documentary, Orrin Hatch says, Ive passed more health care bills than anybody in Congress. Id hardly ever heard of this until my granddaughter explained it to me.

We need to make people aware. I mean, you know, this is a very widespread problem for an awful lot of women. Weve got to do something about this, and Im all for it. Youve got to guide me and help me, thats all.

When Mary Alice Hatch says that they need to engage other prominent members of Congress in their efforts, Orrin Hatch replies, We have some excellent people on the Democratic side. And I think Elizabeth Warren is a good one. Shes a firebrand who irritates most Republicans, but she does not irritate me. So Id be very happy to work with her. I can get that done.

Hatch is praising and promising to work with not just any Democrat, but one of the most liberal and progressive members of the U.S. Senate.

Warren asks how long it takes to get an endometriosis diagnosis, and she is shocked when Mary Alice Hatch says the average time is 10 years. And the Utah senator tells her that he has seen his granddaughter when shes doubled up and really cant stand. The pain is so intense and so terrible.

Cameras were there when the Hatches met Warren, and there were hugs all around. Hatch Manwaring hugs Warren and her grandfather. The two senators hug each other somewhat awkwardly.

Im outnumbered, Orrin Hatch says.

This is how we get real change, Warren replies.

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Right-wing allegations about Biden and Ukraine in particular usually insinuate that, while serving as vice president, the elder Biden pressured a Ukrainian prosecutor into resigning to stop an investigation into Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter sat at the time. This allegation has some factual basis: Hunter did serve on the companys board, and his father did pressure the Ukrainian government about the prosecutor in charge of corruption cases.

But it is wrong in one critical way: ThenVice President Biden pressured Ukraine to crack down harder on corruption, not go easier on it. His push came as part of a broader effort by the Obama administration and the European Union to root out corruption in the Ukrainian political and economic system. None of this was secret: Major news outlets covered Bidens trip to Ukraine in 2015 and the reason why it was happening. (By contrast, Trumps attempt to coerce Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy into smearing Hunter and his father by withholding military aid from Ukraine actually was corrupt, leading to his first impeachment in 2019.)

This reality has not deterred Trump, his allies, and other prominent Republicans from pushing the narrative that Biden was trying to protect his corrupt son. But again, their goal is not to determine whether either Biden actually did anything wrong, although they would be thrilled to find evidence to that effect. These investigations real purpose is better understood as a smear campaign against political opponents and future Democratic presidential candidates.

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We were born in the 1940s on the Dorsey dairy farm on Buckhorn Road in southern Carroll County. We rode our bikes on the dirt roads, and it was a thrill when we finally were able to pedal all the way to the top of the hill to Aunt Matties.

We have enjoyed our bikes and various trails with our children and grandchildren. Time has passed and we still live on a portion of the farm on Buckhorn Road. Judy has had to have two knee and two hip replacements, so riding a regular bike to enjoy the natural areas and countryside trails is no longer possible.

We now own and enjoy trail riding on our class 1 and 2 e-bikes. We pedal for a few seconds to give power and have the assist feature take over for a few seconds for us to recover. We only use the higher function when peddling up a steep hill. Judy is now considering an e-trike for additional stability.

We have always supported trail formation and maintenance in Carroll County. We need and request the Board of County Commissioners to allow e-bikes on the existing and future Carroll County trail system.

K. Marlene Conaway and Judy E. Gray, Winfield

Both Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump had classified information in their homes. Compare how President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden Department of Justice and FBI treated Hillary Clinton to how President Bidens same offices treated Trump.

Clinton was Obamas secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 and had a private server containing classified information and emails / in her home at Chappaqua, New York and 13 mobile devices to access these emails.

Clinton received a congressional subpoena from the House Select Committee on Benghazi on March 4, 2015 to turn over her emails. Three weeks later, she turned over 30,000 emails, but her IT specialist, Paul Combetta, used BleachBit software to delete 31,000 e-mails, and Clintons aide, Justin Cooper, destroyed two of her mobile devices with a hammer; the others were never found. In July 2015 the FBI started investigating Clintons handling of classified information.

Former President Bill Clinton met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on June 27, 2016 on the tarmac of Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. On July 2, the FBI interviewed, Hillary Clinton and her chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, who was a witness if not subject of the investigation.

On July 5, 5 FBI Director James Comey set the precedent, when he exonerated Hillary Clinton of any criminal charges, saying the FBI found no evidence of intentional misconduct, although she and her aides were extremely careless handling highly classified information.

July 2016 also saw the Obama/Biden FBI, without any credible evidence to legally justify an investigation, lie to the FISA court to started operation Crossfire Hurricane -to spy on Trumps campaign and launch the Russia collusion hoax.

In September 2016, the New York Police Department confirmed they were investigating U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner for sexting a teenage girl and found emails they believed relevant to the investigation of tens of thousands of Hillary Clinton on his laptop and other devices. Weiner, at the time, was married to Huma Abedin, Clintons deputy chief of staff.

No action was taken until Oct. 28 when Comey told Congress the FBI would investigate these emails. On Nov. 6, Comey told Congress they didnt change his conclusion.

Although the Department of Justice had been communicating with Trump about his classified documents, on Aug. 8, 2022, armed FBI agents, with guns drawn, raided Trumps home at Mar-a-Lago and denied his lawyers access to their search while they seize and photographed documents, then released photos to the media. On June 8 this year, the Department of Justice indicted Trump for mishandling classified documents for violating the Espionage Act, obstruction and false statements.

The Constitution guarantees equal justice under the law. Did Trump and Clinton receive equal justice?

Carl Burdette, Westminster

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Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, June 19-25. Details and times are subject to change.

BLACK POP: CELEBRATING THE POWER OF BLACK CULTURE 8 p.m. on E! The N.B.A. star Stephen Curry is an executive producer and the actress La La Anthony the narrator of this four-part docu-series exploring the influence of Black celebrities and entertainers on pop culture. With a spotlight on Black icons including Muhammad Ali, Serena Williams and Spike Lee, the series demonstrates how figures like these have shaped music, film and sports and American culture at large.

JUNETEENTH: A GLOBAL CELEBRATION FOR FREEDOM 8 p.m. on CNN and OWN. The second iteration of this commemorative celebration of Black culture and survival aims to educate and uplift viewers. The presentation includes preshow coverage of Black trailblazers and creators (beginning at 7 p.m.), and performances from artists like Miguel, Kirk Franklin, SWV, Davido, Coi Leray and Jodeci. The three-hour special will be streamed live from the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.

BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) 6 p.m. on AMC. Set in 1985, this Oscar-nominated film turned cult classic follows the teenage Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) after he is accidentally sent back in time, to the year 1955, and encounters his parents as high schoolers who havent fallen in love yet. After inadvertently causing his mother to fall for him instead, Marty must find a way to secure his future existence by bringing his parents together while also figuring out how to get back to the year 1985. In less resourceful hands, the idea might quickly have worn thin, Janet Maslin wrote in her review of the film for The New York Times. But the films director, Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, The Polar Express"), she writes, is able both to keep the story moving and to keep it from going too far, concluding that one of the most appealing things about Back to the Future is its way of putting nostalgia gently in perspective.

LA FIRE & RESCUE 8 p.m. on NBC. This new docu-series from the producers of the fire and rescue squad drama Chicago Fire tells the real-life stories of members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Through footage of rescues and interviews with firefighters, the series documents the lived experiences of those working on the front lines of Californias (and the nations) most populous county.

CHINAS CORPORATE SPY WAR 10 p.m. on CNBC. Featuring interviews with government officials and lawmakers, including the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, and the U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, as well as a number of intelligence experts, this hourlong documentary explores the world of economic espionage, focusing on Chinas campaign to steal trade secrets from some of the biggest businesses in the United States. Reported by Eamon Javers, a veteran Washington correspondent and author of a book on corporate spying, the documentary argues that the campaign is more malicious than a desire for information in order to compete with American companies maintaining that its rooted in Chinas wish to destroy key businesses in its pursuit of global economic domination.

BELOW THE BELT: THE LAST HEALTH TABOO 10 p.m. on PBS. Four women ranging in age and background share their stories in this feature-length documentary about the struggles of patients with endometriosis, a chronic condition that the World Health Organization has said affects 10 percent of women and girls. Hillary Clinton is one of the executive producers of the film, which explores how patients often fight to have their symptoms believed, diagnosed and treated in a broken healthcare system.

TRIPPIN WITH ANTHONY ANDERSON AND MAMA DORIS 10 p.m. on E! In this eight-episode mini-series, the Emmy Award-nominated actor Anthony Anderson (Black-ish, Law & Order) takes his mother, Doris Hancox, on a six-week vacation through England, France and Italy. The mother-son duo navigate new cultures, and their clashing personalities, in a series of adventures like walking in African Fashion Week and hunting for truffle as their relationship deepens.

ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE 10 p.m. on PBS. This Peabody Award-winning series about contemporary visual art follows a group of 12 artists who share their thoughts and creative processes while painting, designing and sculpting pieces of artwork inspired by the current moment. The second episode of Season 11 which premiered in April focuses on the artists Anicka Yi, Tauba Auerbach, Hank Willis Thomas, and the Guerrilla Girls as they explore the concepts of truth and historical record through art.

ON THE WATERFRONT (1954) 8 p.m. on TCM. Inspired by a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles by Malcolm Johnson on terrorism and racketeering on New Yorks waterfront, written for The New York Sun in 1948, this Academy Award-winning crime drama focuses on union violence and corruption among a group of longshoremen in Hoboken, N.J. The film stars Marlon Brando (who won Best Actor for his role) as Terry Malloy, a boxer turned dock worker who becomes embroiled in the murder of his colleague Joey (Ben Wagner). With the rest of the longshoreman afraid to speak out after rumors spread that Joey was killed because he planned to testify against their corrupt boss and the union, the film follows Brandos Malloy as he wrestles with how to move forward. A review in The Times described the drama as an uncommonly powerful, exciting and imaginative use of the screen by gifted professionals.

2023 BET AWARDS 8 p.m. on BET. Streaming live from Los Angeles, the BET Awards an annual ceremony that celebrates the work of Black artists and athletes will commemorate hip-hops 50th anniversary with a lineup of hip-hop performances spanning decades and styles. Featured artists include Fat Joe, Soulja Boy, DJ Unk, E-40, and Lil Uzi Vert, among many others.

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