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Why did Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter-in-law quit the Trump team? Ex-CIA official cited in explosive gold scandal

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, daughter-in-law of the United States Surgeon General Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And a former CIA officer reveals why she resigned from her role at the CIA Trump administrationpointing to what she called egregious misconduct and poor oversight within the intelligence community.

Foxx Kennedy also dismissed speculation that she resigned over disagreements with President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. (X/@amaryllisfox)

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Fox Kennedy said she was increasingly uncomfortable with handling the matter. taxpayer– Funding resources, especially after allegations surfaced about the movement of gold bullion tied to a major federal investigation.

“I cannot continue to sign checks. I would be complicit,” she told the publication, adding that the intelligence community’s “unsupervised flow of money and gold” raised serious constitutional concerns.

Resigned after CIA gold bar case

She left her post after the arrest of senior CIA official David Rush, the Irish Star reported. According to the Irish Star, more than 300 gold bars worth more than $40 million were found at his home in Virginia during an FBI raid.

Fox Kennedy said the case pointed to institutional problems within U.S. intelligence agencies. While she praised some intelligence operations as “excellent” and worthy of public support, she also claimed that some parts of the system had become “broken and corrupt.”

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She claimed that certain activities involved domestic political operations that “no American would tolerate.”

However, the CIA rejected suggestions of financial secrecy or lack of accountability. A CIA spokesperson said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal that the agency “keeps its oversight committees fully updated on agency resources and expenditures.”

Praise for Ratcliffe and Gabbard

Even as she criticized the intelligence agencies, Foxx Kennedy praised CIA Director John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and acting successor Bill Pulte, saying they were trying to end the “weaponization” of federal agencies.

She also referred to an investigation launched under Ratcliffe that allegedly uncovered “decades of fraud and misconduct” across multiple government departments, comments that were interpreted as referring to the Rush case.

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Denies Iran policy differences

Foxx Kennedy also dismissed speculation that she resigned over disagreements with President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, particularly on Iran.

She defended Operation Epic Fury, saying it was aimed at preventing a larger future conflict with Tehran “with minimal casualties and no ground troops.”

“My concern is not about the president’s foreign policy,” she said. “This is about the political weaponization of our American security services.”

She further warned that secretive influence within Washington remained entrenched, calling control of the capital a “trillion-dollar prize.”

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