From mass deportations to the total erosion of reproductive rights, there are dozens of reasons to deeply fear Donald Trump returning to the White House. Another one you can add to the list? The fact that he’s apparently going to give notorious anti-vaxxer 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’s gonna do pretty much what 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 the things he says.”
Trump’s comments come days after Kennedy said during a livestream that Trump had pledged to give him “control” of multiple federal health agencies in a second term, telling viewers: “The key that I think—you know, that President Trump has promised me—is control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its subagencies—CDC, FDA, NIH, and a few others—and then also the USDA, which is—which, you know, is key to making America healthy. Because we’ve got to get off of seed oils, and we’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.”
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