Mr Sommer says supporters cheer and interact with Mr Fusca when they see him and ask him if he is really JFK Jr. Others carried Trump JFK Jr 2020 flags or wore his likeness on their shirts, shouting “He’s alive”. 1999 The merger of two major recording labels, Universal and Polygram, causes upheaval in the recording industry. 1998 Legendary crooner Frank Sinatra dies of a heart attack at age 82. The latest tragedy to befall a family apparently haunted by misfortune made headlines around the world.įor his supposed return at a 4th of July rally in 2019, some supporters carried JFK Jr facemasks. Janet Jackson becomes the highest-paid musician in history when she signs an 80-million deal with Virgin Records. Kennedy crashed the Piper Saratoga plane he was flying – with his wife and sister-in-law as passengers – into the Atlantic near Martha’s Vineyard on 16 July, 1999. ‘He’d clearly have the most extravagant winter White House.’”

‘I think you should be asking those questions of Donald,’ Kennedy said, according to Berman. Trying to deflect the presidential chatter, Kennedy noted that the Trump estate was far more glamorous than a Kennedy family compound a few miles away.

“As frequently happened to Kennedy at his events, talk soon turned to whether he could envision himself running for president. The closest quote fact-checkers from the Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact found was from a story in The New York Post in November 2016 from Michael Berman, co-founder of George magazine, when Mr Trump and Kennedy schmoozed at Mar-a-Lago. The two were friends, and the photo of them together used in the post was real, from a New York Knicks game in March 1999, three months before the June 1999 issue the quote claimed to be from. Rolling Stone writer EJ Dickson continued pulling the thread and found the idea gained popularity after George W Bush campaign staffer turned investigative journalist Liz Crokin, formerly of The Chicago Tribune and National Inquirer, began tweeting and talking about the theory in 2018. If someone were to come out and say, ‘I think JFK Jr was still alive’ - so yeah they find it embarrassing.”

“I think it’s just so farcical on its face that they’re kind of embarrassed by it, if someone comes out and says I think world elites sometimes abuse their power to abuse children - that doesn’t sound that crazy. “There is this funny dynamic in QAnon both with JFK Jr and other stuff where they say, ‘Oh I believe that world elites drink children’s blood and all this kind of stuff, but ‘WOAH JFK Jr, that’s the crazy one’. Mr Sommer says that for many QAnon believers, this theory is a step too far. The supposed evidence: Mr Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on 16 July, the 19th anniversary of Kennedy’s fatal plane crash.

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