Less than three months ago, then-presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., accused Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of scamming American workers, appointing lobbyists and war-hawks throughout his administration, inflaming racial tensions at home and political tensions abroad and stepping on the neck of small businesses while enriching the wealthy during the height of the COVID crisis.

"If you think a second Trump term would be any different, you are engaging in wishful thinking," Kennedy wrote on social media in May.

On Friday, Kennedy stood beside Trump on a stage in Glendale, Arizona, telling thousands of people that he thinks a second Trump term would be different.

Kennedy was given a hero’s welcome to Trump’s Phoenix-area rally on Friday, entering to pyrotechnics with the backing of the Foo Fighters’ "My Hero," blaring through arena speakers.

Trump, he said, will be a president who will get America out of wars, rebuild the middle class, protect America’s freedoms, "get the chemicals out of our food" and free regulatory agencies from "corporate corruption."

He was introduced as having called Trump after the assassination attempt on Trump’s life in Pennsylvania last month. Trump said Kennedy told the former president that he knows "first-hand the risks incurred by leaders who stand up to the corrupt political establishment."

Kennedy’s father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated on the campaign trail in 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan, who told a reporter that it was based in Kennedy’s support of sending military jets to Israel. Kennedy’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine and defector to and from the Soviet Union who authorities believe previously tried to assassinate a retired Army major general.

"He lost his father and uncle in service to our country, and Bobby himself was subject to repeated threats to his safety during the course of his campaign, while being denied protection by the Harris-Biden administration," Trump said, putting an emphasis on his Democratic presidential opponent, Kamala Harris. "This is a tribute in honor of Bobby: I am announcing tonight that upon my election, I will establish a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts, and they will be tasked with releasing all the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy."

The commission, he said, will also conduct a “rigorous review” of the attempt on Trump’s life.

Trump said that he believes that Kennedy’s backing will have a “huge influence,” on the campaign. “We’re leading now, but I think he’s going to have a huge influence…much bigger than you’d see in the polls,” Trump said.

In his first major rally after the DNC’s conclusion on Thursday, Trump largely confined his criticisms to Harris (whom he criticized for saying "thank you" repeatedly before accepting the Democratic nomination) and former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, whom he called "nasty people."

The former president also griped about his advisers, whom Trump said recommended that he “stick to policy, don’t stick to personality.”

“And if I say something just slightly out of order, like ‘she didn’t do a very good job last night’…that’s the end of your political career,” he said.

Notably, Trump also spent a few minutes graciously greeting Republican allies at the event, including former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

"There was nobody like him. He understood the border better than anybody, and he ran it fairly, very fair, but he ran it strong and they respected him. They didn’t even try," Trump said.

Maricopa County is not a border county, and Arpaio had no jurisdiction over the Arizona-Mexico border at any point during his tenure as sheriff. However, Arpaio — like Trump — has long had an obsession with immigration. And like Trump, Arpaio has been subject to scores of lawsuits throughout his lifetime.

According to the Arizona Republic, Arpaio’s civil lawsuits have cost Maricopa County taxpayers more than $140 million in legal expenses. And earlier this year, the Associated Press reported that the cost for overhauling the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, in response to a federal racial profiling verdict adjudicated in 2013, is likely to reach $314 million by next year. Arpaio was unseated as sheriff seven years ago.

In July 2017, Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt of court, and pardoned in short order by then-President Trump.

"You are a legend, and you did a job like nobody else," Trump said Friday.