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On Tuesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked people to ease up on his wife, Cheryl Hines, after his recent endorsement of Donald Trump while revealing that she was the one who encouraged him to meet with the GOP nominee initially.

Kennedy clarified to TMZ Live that while Hines does not support Trump, it was she who advised him to take the call from the Trump camp, which came shortly after the July 13 assassination attempt.

“I said, ‘I don’t think so,’ ” RFK Jr. said on “The Tucker Carlson Show” earlier this week. “Part of this was that I thought this was a nonstarter with Cheryl.”

But RFK Jr. then called his wife to ask her advice, and he said she told him to “hear them out, out of compassion,” he told Carlson.

“It was an emotional night for our country. It was an emotional night for everyone,” he told Carlson.

Hines also attended the meeting, he said, “to make sure that there were no hasty decisions made.”

“It’s a really difficult issue for Cheryl,” RFK Jr. told TMZ. “It’s the opposite of what she would want to do. She went along with it because she loves me and she wanted to be supportive of me. But it was not something that she ever encouraged.”

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The endorsement, however, drew negative responses online, including some directed at Hines. For example,  “West Wing” actor Bradley Whitford blasting the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress.

“Hey @CherylHines, way to stay silent while your lunatic husband throws his support behind the adjudicated rapist who brags about stripping women of their fundamental rights,” Whitford wrote on Saturday. “Gutsy. Great example for the kids. Profile in courage.”

“It’s a template for bullying,” RFK Jr. told TMZ. “Instead of challenging me, he’s attacking my wife. Who would do that? What kind of person, what kind of man, would do that? Like many people who point fingers and accuse other people of bullying women, that’s exactly what he was doing there.”

Kennedy said on Tuesday that Trump has tasked him with helping pick people who will help run a new administration should the 45th president become the 47th president.

During an interview with indy journalist Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News star asked Kennedy what he would be doing “from now until election day” after endorsing Trump. Kennedy said, “I’m gonna work to get him elected, and, you know, I’m working with the campaign. We’re working on policy issues together.”

“I’ve been asked to go on to the transition team and, you know, to help pick the pick who will be running the government, and I’m looking forward to that,” before he added: “I’m gonna fight. I don’t know what would happen to me if we lose.”

“What happens, if he loses, to you?” Carlson pressed, to which Kennedy replied, “I never really think about that. What I think is, okay, here’s what I gotta do today, and you know, get up every day and say, ‘Reporting for duty, sir,’ and then go do that.”

He added: “You know, nothing’s a crisis, everything’s a task, right? So that’s what I’m gonna be. Kind of a happy warrior. I know what I have to do, so I’m gonna do it.”

In the same interview, Kennedy told Carlson that although he would be interested in serving as Trump’s CIA director, he believes he would never secure Senate confirmation for the position.

After Carlson asked whether he would take the position, Kennedy responded, “Yes, I would, but I would never get Senate confirmation. As you know, the intelligence agencies are protected by very, very powerful committees in the Senate and the House that are all read into the project, and the people who serve on those committees are people who would, you know, they would not– they’re safeguarding that directorship, and I would be very, very dangerous for those committees.”

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