From mass deportations to the complete erosion of reproductive rights, there are dozens of reasons to deeply fear Donald Trump return to the White House. Another one you can add to the list? The fact that he will apparently give a boost to notorious anti-vaxxers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. power over the health of the nation.
Speaking to reporters on Election Day, Trump said of the former third-party candidate: “Let me tell you, he's a great guy, RFK. He'll pretty much do whatever he wants as far as I'm concerned. He wants health for women, for men, for children. I happen to agree with a lot of things he says.
Trump's comments come days after Kennedy said during a live broadcast that Trump was committed to giving him “control” of several federal health agencies in a second term, telling viewers: “The key that I think – you know, that President Trump promised me – is oversight of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies – CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others – and and then also the USDA, which is – which, you know, is the key to making America healthy. Because we need to move away from seed oils and we need to move away from pesticide-intensive agriculture.
If you're not familiar with Kennedy's work on “health,” you may not understand why putting him in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services might be one of the most scariest things Trump has ever done. Among other things, Kennedy is one of the biggest anti-vaxxers on the planet and has been accused of stoking fears about vaccines on the eve of a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people; To that end, he once suggested that Anne Frank of Holocaust fame had it easy compared to what anti-vaxxers are experiencing. Kennedy also repeatedly suggested that chemicals in the environment could turn children gay and trans; he wildly claimed that HIV does not cause AIDS; and said last year: “COVID-19 is aimed at attacking Caucasians and Black people. The most immune people are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. »
Aside from his dangerous public health misinformation, Kennedy also admitted to staging an elaborate bear killing scene in Central Park because he didn't have time to eat the bear's flesh, and had said in a 2012 divorce deposition that a worm “got into my brain and I ate part of it, and then I died.”
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