Trump says RFK Jr.'s campaign is failing after independent candidate criticized his COVID response

Former President Donald Trump slammed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Saturday after Kennedy took a shot at Trump's record regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“Don’t waste any Republican or Conservative votes on Junior,’” Trump posted on TRUTH Social. “He’s one of the most Liberal Lunatics ever to run for office. He caused massive high energy pricing in New York and New England. He just admitted that he was actually OK with the Vaccine.”

He later added that the Democrat-turned-independent presidential candidate's campaign was "falling apart."

Trump is slated to speak at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday while Kennedy Jr. spoke on Friday, where he criticized Trump. 

“President Trump presided over the greatest restriction on individual liberties this country has ever known,” Kennedy Jr. said. 

“I think he had the right instinct when he came into office. He was initially very reluctant to impose lockdowns… He caved in,” he added. “It all started with the social media and the mainstream media apparently without any government prompting began censoring any speech that departed from the government’s orthodoxies.”

Kennedy had previously challenged former President Donald Trump to debate at the convention, but it is not slated to occur.