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Wed Jan 29, 2025, 10:43 PM Jan 29

Elizabeth Warren Exposes RFK Jr. - WSJ Editorial

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday to root out corruption between industry and government. Yet the man who wants to be the nation’s Secretary of Health and Human Services refused to rule out personally making money from lawsuits against drug makers. This ought to be disqualifying.

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Mr. Kennedy’s disclosures show that he has received more than $2.5 million from law firms that have sued drug and vaccine makers. He also has a financial stake in a pending lawsuit against human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine maker Merck. Mr. Kennedy’s trial-lawyer ties and financial interests in litigation against drug makers pose a clear conflict of interest.

Ms. Warren asked RFK Jr. to commit to not “suing the drug companies, and taking your rake out of that, while you are Secretary and for four years after.” He refused. “You’re asking me to not sue drug companies, and I am not going to agree to that,” he said. Why not?

Ms. Warren went on to detail that “there’s a lot of ways that you can influence those future lawsuits, and pending lawsuits, while you are Secretary of HHS.” They include publishing his antivaccine views “on U.S. government letterhead, something a jury might be impressed by.” He could change side effects that appear on vaccine labels.

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We never thought we’d hear this, but Ms. Warren has an excellent point that Mr. Kennedy, as HHS Secretary, could have the ability to “kill off access to vaccines and make millions of dollars while he does it.” This ought to trouble Republican Senators who profess to care about good government and public health.

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Elizabeth Warren Exposes RFK Jr. - WSJ Editorial (Original Post) question everything Jan 29 OP
Every new thing I learn about this guy is just one more thing that turns my stomach. calimary Jan 29 #1

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1. Every new thing I learn about this guy is just one more thing that turns my stomach.
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 10:51 PM
Jan 29

I swear, RFK Jr grows more reprehensible by the day! What a slap in the face to honest, serious, credible, and dedicated health officials across America.

THIS is what the donald thinks of YOU (and of ALL the rest of us, too).

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