His independent White House campaign has fizzled, but the flow of bizarre stories of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s unorthodox handling of the carcasses of wild mammals has experienced no similar suspension.

An environmental group is calling for a federal investigation into the former presidential candidate for an episode in which he allegedly severed the head of a washed-up whale with a chainsaw – and drove home with it strapped to his car’s roof.

The episode has parallels with another extraordinary tale reported earlier in August in which Kennedy confessed to dumping a dead bear cub in New York’s Central Park and attempted to make it look like the animal was killed by a bicyclist.

The latest grisly revelation, about the whale head, is not particularly new – it stems from a 2012 interview Kennedy’s daughter Kick gave to Town & Country magazine, in which she talks about a visit to other family members of the political dynasty in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, more than two decades prior.

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    Can someone explain his voice? I don’t want to be the bad guy, so rather than pilling on the obvious…

    Why does he sound like he smoked a dick 5 min before his interviews?

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      That information is very widely and readily available with a basic web search. His voice was fine until (I forget) years ago when a weird illness damaged his vocal cords.

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        Cool it’s all out there… but you forgot it… but it’s all good and we all get a downvote. Cool cool cool.

        Anyone else want to mention what’s going on with his craggy bullshit? Why it’s so GD abrasive but we’re all supposed to just accept it?

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        He has spasmodic dysphonia. It’s the same condition that former NPR interviewer Diane Rehm had has (she’s still with us at 87, good for you Diane). His is a lot more severe than hers to my ears.