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BumRushDaShow

(143,374 posts)
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 03:49 AM Nov 1

RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says

Source: ABC News/AP

October 31, 2024, 5:35 PM


PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A co-chair of Donald Trump's transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.

Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy's debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.

While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture.

The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/rfk-jr-federal-health-data-show-vaccines-unsafe-115372110

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mgardener

(1,900 posts)
1. Trump's secretary of Ed
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 06:20 AM
Nov 1

Betsy DeVos, was not an educator and had no education degree. She had a business degree.
So I could totally see Trump appt Bobby Kennedy.

Harker

(15,076 posts)
5. She did great damage in her efforts to destroy the Dept. of Education.
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 08:32 AM
Nov 1

Kennedy would likely be a disaster for public health.

GiqueCee

(1,417 posts)
11. This malevolent disgrace to the Kennedy name...
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 01:55 PM
Nov 1

... is a despicable turd with the moral compass of a rabid hyena. He couldn't stand living in his father's shadow, and couldn't get enough attention as an environmental lawyer, so he became so self-destructive that he is determined to take as many people down with him as possible with his malice and deceit.
THAT is what he'll be remembered for. If he's remembered at all. Better that all memory of him be erased.

wolfie001

(3,766 posts)
12. And diphtheria, whooping cough and polio?
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 06:11 PM
Nov 1

So much crazy with worm-brain. I wonder if he sided with Alex Jones and his "Contrails" conspiracy?

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