Trump said RFK Jr. could do “pretty much anything he wants” in public health in a second term
From mass deportations to the complete erosion of reproductive rights, there are many dozens of reasons deeply afraid Donald Trump return to the White House. Another one you can add to the list? In fact, he appears to be bringing up the infamous anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. power over the nation’s health.
Speaking to reporters on Election Day, Trump said of the former third-party candidate, “Let me tell you, he’s a great guy, RFK. In my opinion, he will do pretty much whatever he wants. He wants health for women, men and children. I happen to agree with a lot of what he said.”
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Trump’s comments came days after Kennedy’s speak during a livestream in which Trump pledged to give him “control” of many federal health agencies in his second term, telling viewers: “The key I think — you know, that President What President Trump promised me—is control of the public health agencies, which is HHS and its subagencies—CDC, FDA, NIH, and a number of others—and then USDA, which is—you know, the key to making America healthy. Because we have to get rid of seed oils and we have to get rid of pesticide-intensive agriculture.”
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If you’re unfamiliar with Kennedy’s “health” work, you might not understand why putting him in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services is arguably one of the scariest things Trump has ever done . Among other things, Kennedy is the one the biggest anti-vaxxers on the planet and was accused raises concerns about vaccines in light of a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people; To that end, he used to implies that Anne Frank, she of Holocaust fame, had it easier than what anti-vaxxers have to go through. Kennedy also repeatedly, suggestion Environmental chemicals can cause children to become gay and transgender; frantic declared that HIV does not cause AIDS; And declare last year: “Covid-19 targets whites and blacks. The people with the best immunity are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
In addition to dangerous public health misinformation, Kennedy admitted staged an elaborate bear killing scene in Central Park because he didn’t have time to eat the bear, and said in his 2012 divorce deposition that a worm “entered my brain and ate some of it and died.”
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