RFK Jr, known for his anti-vax views, says Trump promised him control of the CDC
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Robert F Kennedy Jr says Donald Trump has promised him “control” over many health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Kennedy Jr told fans on Monday that Trump would put him in charge of the Department of Health and Agriculture if he won a second term, adding that he would make his Make America Healthy Again agenda a reality. which comes first.
In August, the 70-year-old suspended his independent presidential campaign and endorsed the billionaire Republican. He once ran in the Democratic primary before switching to independent.
“President Trump has promised me … control of public health agencies, namely HHS and its agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH, and several others, and the USDA, which … America it’s healthy,” said Kennedy Jr. “Because we have to get off seed oil, and we have to get off pesticide-free agriculture.”
At his rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Trump said he would let Kennedy Jr. “walk” on several issues related to health, food and medicine.
“I am going to leave him to worry about his health. I’m going to let him get up for dinner. I will let him be medicated,” Trump said.
“The only thing I don’t think I’ll let him get close to is the liquid gold we have under our feet,” he added.
After Kennedy Jr endorsed Trump in August, the former president said he would put Kennedy on a panel to look at the rise in chronic diseases.
Kennedy Jr is part of Trump’s transition team and has served as a surrogate for the Republican candidate.
He has also been one of the leading purveyors of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, making false claims about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and criticizing US health and agriculture policy during his campaign. of the White House.
Last year, Kennedy Jr pushed the baseless conspiracy theory that Covid-19 was “targeted at white and black people,” adding that “the most vulnerable people are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
He also added that he did not mean to suggest that the virus was “intentionally created.”
At a rally against Covid-19 orders in January 2022, Kennedy Jr compared US vaccination policies to the actions of the authoritarian government, suggesting that Anne Frank was better off hiding from Nazis.
“Even with Hitler in Germany (sic), you could, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank,” Kennedy Jr said at the Lincoln Memorial at the time, in follow CNN.
“I visited East Germany in 1962 with my father and met people who climbed the wall and survived, so it was possible. Many died, that’s true, but it could happen,” he added.
What Kennedy Jr failed to mention was that six million Jews, including Frank, were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. A young man named Frank hid in an attic in the Netherlands, not Germany, before being arrested and sent to a concentration camp, where he later died.
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