Possible RFK Jr. role in a Trump administration
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“I’m going to let him go wild on health,” former President Donald Trump promised Sunday at his rally at Madison Square Garden. “I’m going to get him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines.”
Trump was talking about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former political rival who Trump has increasingly been promising will take a health role in his administration if he’s elected to a second term.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/30/health/rfk-jr-health-policy/index.html
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Well Biden said something insensitive in his latest interview and Harris wasn’t properly vetted, so…
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Am I supposed to be opposed to Kennedy being involved in a potential Trump administration?
I don't know. What do you think about Kennedy's ideas about health and medicine?
I like to evaluate people based on their expertise. I'm not sure he's the right guy for a job overhauling the medical system.
What his political affiliation is never crossed my mind.
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Kennedy is an anti science, anti vax kook.
I’m not in favor of kooks in positions of power.
YMMV.
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Speaking of kooks, what's your take on Musk having a significant role in the administration?
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Kennedy is right about some things and wrong about others.
His position on Palestine is bought and paid for.
He went on Jimmy Dore's show (I'm a fan of Jimmy Dore), Jimmy asked him questions about Israel and Palestine. Jimmy showed him deference by not debating him after asking his questions and then Max Blumenthal responded to the interview with an analysis of it that proved Kennedy's ignorance (almost certainly feigned i.m.o.) as clear as day.
He's not in the same league as his father or uncle.
They must be rolling over in their graves.
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Words fail.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s personal attorney previously lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the approval of the polio vaccine, highlighting an influential Kennedy ally who, sources tell ABC News, has been helping interview candidates for top health jobs in the incoming Trump administration.
Aaron Siri, a partner at the law firm Siri & Glimstad, has long fought against the widespread prevalence of vaccines. He has also filed petitions seeking to pause the distribution of other vaccines, including Hepatitis B, and to revoke the emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines.
The polio petition was made on behalf of one of Siri's clients, the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a group founded by Del Bigtree, another close Kennedy ally who also has been involved in health-related transition matters, according to sources.
"Petitioner requests that the FDA withdraw or suspend the approval for [the polio vaccine] for infants, toddlers, and children until a properly controlled and properly powered double-blind trial of sufficient duration is conducted to assess the safety of this product," Siri wrote.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jrs-lawyer-top-ally-asked-fda-revoke/story?id=116769906
Would love for these anti-polio vaxxers to talk to Ayuba. I met him a number of years ago when he stayed at my neighbor's house on a Rotary visit. She was active in the Rotary vaccination program in Nigeria and also in India, traveling multiple times to both countries to administer the polio vaccine.
https://www.afro.who.int/news/neglect-inspiration-ayuba-gufwans-story
