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Anti-abortion doctor known for role in Terri Schiavo case tapped to head CDC
Matthew Chapman
November 22, 2024
FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board, retired U. S. Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman (R), talks to U.S. Congressman Dave Weldon (L), R-FL, as they examine pieces of debris from the spacecraft in the RLV Hanger at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 17, 2003. REUTERS/Charles W Luzier/File Photo
Trump made yet another medical appointment on Friday evening with the selection of former Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL) to head up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"In addition to being a Medical Doctor for 40 years, and an Army Veteran, Dave has been a respected conservative leader on fiscal and social issues, and served on the Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee, working for Accountability on HHS and CDC Policy and Budgeting," stated Trump on his Truth Social platform. "Dave also served in a leading role in Government Oversight and Reform Committee Hearings, addressing issues within HHS and CDC. Dave has successfully worked with the CDC to enact a ban on patents for human embryos."
Weldon is a stringently anti-abortion activist, who when he served in Congress was involved in legislation to legally protect anti-abortion doctors and restrict the way doctors can perform the procedure.
He is also well known for his role in the Terri Schiavo controversy, where after a Florida woman suffered brain death, Congress attempted to intervene against her husband's right to terminate life support. Weldon in particular used his credentials as a doctor to dispute Schiavo's diagnosis.
The CDC played a critically important role in trying to maintain public safety at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is year to year a frontline agency monitoring disease outbreaks and potential pandemics as they develop.
This comes after Trump announced several other appointments to key health positions, including a Fox News regular to serve as surgeon general, and, most controversially, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Matthew Chapman
November 22, 2024
FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board, retired U. S. Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman (R), talks to U.S. Congressman Dave Weldon (L), R-FL, as they examine pieces of debris from the spacecraft in the RLV Hanger at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 17, 2003. REUTERS/Charles W Luzier/File Photo
Trump made yet another medical appointment on Friday evening with the selection of former Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL) to head up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"In addition to being a Medical Doctor for 40 years, and an Army Veteran, Dave has been a respected conservative leader on fiscal and social issues, and served on the Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee, working for Accountability on HHS and CDC Policy and Budgeting," stated Trump on his Truth Social platform. "Dave also served in a leading role in Government Oversight and Reform Committee Hearings, addressing issues within HHS and CDC. Dave has successfully worked with the CDC to enact a ban on patents for human embryos."
Weldon is a stringently anti-abortion activist, who when he served in Congress was involved in legislation to legally protect anti-abortion doctors and restrict the way doctors can perform the procedure.
He is also well known for his role in the Terri Schiavo controversy, where after a Florida woman suffered brain death, Congress attempted to intervene against her husband's right to terminate life support. Weldon in particular used his credentials as a doctor to dispute Schiavo's diagnosis.
The CDC played a critically important role in trying to maintain public safety at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is year to year a frontline agency monitoring disease outbreaks and potential pandemics as they develop.
This comes after Trump announced several other appointments to key health positions, including a Fox News regular to serve as surgeon general, and, most controversially, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Trump taps another Fox News contributor — this time for surgeon general
Matthew Chapman
November 22, 2024
Trump taps another Fox News contributor — this time for surgeon general
Matthew Chapman
November 22, 2024
RAW STORY
Donald Trump picked yet another Fox News alum for his administration on Friday — this time for the role of U.S. surgeon general.
Specifically, reported Politico, Trump has tapped Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, who is "a Fox News medical contributor and serves as a medical director at CityMD, a network of urgent care centers in New York and New Jersey."
“Dr. Nesheiwat is a fierce advocate and strong communicator for preventive medicine and public health,” Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social platform. “She is committed to ensuring that Americans have access to affordable, quality healthcare, and believes in empowering individuals to take charge of their health to live longer, healthier lives.”
This comes as Trump has nominated other Fox News regulars to prominent roles, one of the most significant being Pete Hegseth to head up the Department of Defense.
That nomination is currently in limbo as revelations emerge about sexual assault allegations against him.
It also comes as Trump has tapped conspiracy theorist and former environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite his long history of attacking the efficacy of vaccines.
Donald Trump picked yet another Fox News alum for his administration on Friday — this time for the role of U.S. surgeon general.
Specifically, reported Politico, Trump has tapped Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, who is "a Fox News medical contributor and serves as a medical director at CityMD, a network of urgent care centers in New York and New Jersey."
“Dr. Nesheiwat is a fierce advocate and strong communicator for preventive medicine and public health,” Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social platform. “She is committed to ensuring that Americans have access to affordable, quality healthcare, and believes in empowering individuals to take charge of their health to live longer, healthier lives.”
This comes as Trump has nominated other Fox News regulars to prominent roles, one of the most significant being Pete Hegseth to head up the Department of Defense.
That nomination is currently in limbo as revelations emerge about sexual assault allegations against him.
It also comes as Trump has tapped conspiracy theorist and former environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite his long history of attacking the efficacy of vaccines.
Trump's New Attorney General Pick: A Corporate Lobbyist Who Did Wall Street's Bidding
"We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to let corporate wrongdoers off the hook," said one consumer advocate.
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland.
(Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson
Nov 22, 2024
COMMON DREAMS
President-elect Donald Trump's choice to succeed Matt Gaetz as his nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Justice is a registered lobbyist who has worked on behalf of Amazon, Uber, and other corporate giants.
Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, has lobbied for the same firm as Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff pick, according to Senate filings. Bondi also reportedly has ties to the lawyer who represented Trump confidant Elon Musk and Tesla in a federal securities fraud case.
Bondi, who helped represent Trump during his first impeachment trial and took part in the effort to reverse the results of the 2020 election, currently serves as chair of the Center for Litigation at the America First Policy Institute, a far-right think tank that's playing a central role in the presidential transition and in crafting Trump's agenda.
Trump's selection of Bondi to lead the Justice Department prompted renewed scrutiny of her record as Florida's top prosecutor, particularly her favorable treatment of big banks and other firms implicated in the foreclosure crisis.
The American Prospect's David Dayen, the author of an acclaimed book on Wall Street foreclosure fraud, noted Friday that Bondi's victory in Florida's 2010 attorney general election was aided in part by donations from Lender Processing Services and other firms that were facing investigations launched by the office of Bondi's predecessor.
In 2011, Dayen recounted, Bondi fired two attorneys in Florida's Economic Crimes division, June Clarkson and Theresa Edwards, after freezing them out of a national probe of foreclosure fraud despite their extensive knowledge of the issue.
"There's a lot out there about Bondi, including her soliciting a $25,000 contribution from Trump and subsequently scotching an investigation into his fake university, while lying about how many complaints from former students at the university she received," Dayen wrote. "She also became a lobbyist with Trump-whisperer Brian Ballard after her stint as attorney general of Florida ended, seeking sweetheart treatment for clients like Amazon, GM, and Uber."
"But the firing of Clarkson and Edwards, which is detailed further in my 2016 book Chain of Title, is the most emblematic example of Bondi's extreme willingness to do the bidding of anyone who pays her," Dayen added. "The conversion of corporate donations into protection for that corporation, even if it meant firing her own staff, was done without so much as the bat of an eyelash."
"We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to serve as a Trump loyalist and attack dog at the expense of the department's independence and integrity."
Robert Weissman, co-president of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, pointed to Bondi's failed legal push to overturn the Affordable Care Act as further evidence that she is "a manifestly unqualified candidate for attorney general."
"Not being Matt Gaetz does not qualify you to be attorney general of the United States," said Weissman. "We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to let corporate wrongdoers off the hook. As Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi sued to overturn the Affordable Care Act, sued to block the ACA ban on health insurance companies price gouging people with preexisting conditions, and opposed efforts to reduce homeowners' mortgage loans in negotiations with financial institutions that had engaged in fraud and misconduct."
"We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to spread false claims about voter fraud and to undermine the Department of Justice's historic commitment to protecting voting rights," he added. "Bondi echoed Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud after the 2020 election and has brought lawsuits to restrict voting access.
"We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to serve as a Trump loyalist and attack dog at the expense of the department's independence and integrity," Weissman continued. "In short, we should expect an Attorney General Bondi to lead a Department of Injustice. Americans deserve better."
"We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to let corporate wrongdoers off the hook," said one consumer advocate.
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland.
(Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Jake Johnson
Nov 22, 2024
COMMON DREAMS
President-elect Donald Trump's choice to succeed Matt Gaetz as his nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Justice is a registered lobbyist who has worked on behalf of Amazon, Uber, and other corporate giants.
Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, has lobbied for the same firm as Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff pick, according to Senate filings. Bondi also reportedly has ties to the lawyer who represented Trump confidant Elon Musk and Tesla in a federal securities fraud case.
Bondi, who helped represent Trump during his first impeachment trial and took part in the effort to reverse the results of the 2020 election, currently serves as chair of the Center for Litigation at the America First Policy Institute, a far-right think tank that's playing a central role in the presidential transition and in crafting Trump's agenda.
Trump's selection of Bondi to lead the Justice Department prompted renewed scrutiny of her record as Florida's top prosecutor, particularly her favorable treatment of big banks and other firms implicated in the foreclosure crisis.
The American Prospect's David Dayen, the author of an acclaimed book on Wall Street foreclosure fraud, noted Friday that Bondi's victory in Florida's 2010 attorney general election was aided in part by donations from Lender Processing Services and other firms that were facing investigations launched by the office of Bondi's predecessor.
In 2011, Dayen recounted, Bondi fired two attorneys in Florida's Economic Crimes division, June Clarkson and Theresa Edwards, after freezing them out of a national probe of foreclosure fraud despite their extensive knowledge of the issue.
"There's a lot out there about Bondi, including her soliciting a $25,000 contribution from Trump and subsequently scotching an investigation into his fake university, while lying about how many complaints from former students at the university she received," Dayen wrote. "She also became a lobbyist with Trump-whisperer Brian Ballard after her stint as attorney general of Florida ended, seeking sweetheart treatment for clients like Amazon, GM, and Uber."
"But the firing of Clarkson and Edwards, which is detailed further in my 2016 book Chain of Title, is the most emblematic example of Bondi's extreme willingness to do the bidding of anyone who pays her," Dayen added. "The conversion of corporate donations into protection for that corporation, even if it meant firing her own staff, was done without so much as the bat of an eyelash."
"We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to serve as a Trump loyalist and attack dog at the expense of the department's independence and integrity."
Robert Weissman, co-president of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, pointed to Bondi's failed legal push to overturn the Affordable Care Act as further evidence that she is "a manifestly unqualified candidate for attorney general."
"Not being Matt Gaetz does not qualify you to be attorney general of the United States," said Weissman. "We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to let corporate wrongdoers off the hook. As Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi sued to overturn the Affordable Care Act, sued to block the ACA ban on health insurance companies price gouging people with preexisting conditions, and opposed efforts to reduce homeowners' mortgage loans in negotiations with financial institutions that had engaged in fraud and misconduct."
"We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to spread false claims about voter fraud and to undermine the Department of Justice's historic commitment to protecting voting rights," he added. "Bondi echoed Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud after the 2020 election and has brought lawsuits to restrict voting access.
"We should expect an Attorney General Bondi to serve as a Trump loyalist and attack dog at the expense of the department's independence and integrity," Weissman continued. "In short, we should expect an Attorney General Bondi to lead a Department of Injustice. Americans deserve better."
'Aggressive cost cutter': Trump taps key Project 2025 figure for major government agency
Erik De La Garza
November 22, 2024
Erik De La Garza
November 22, 2024
RAW STORY
A computer shows a Project 2025 screen. (Bella1105/ Shutterstock)
Russell Vought, a co-author of the highly controversial “Project 2025” initiative, has been nominated to be the country’s next director of the Office of Management and Budget – a position he’s held before.
President-elect Donald Trump made the pick Friday as part of his rollout of his economic team just hours after naming Wall Street insider Scott Bessent to lead the Treasury Department. Vought’s nomination would return him to the powerful agency that he ran during Trump’s first term, where he would be tasked with setting budget priorities, managing agencies and executing the incoming president’s campaign promises to slash government regulations.
“I am very pleased to nominate Russell Thurlow Vought, from the Great State of Virginia, as the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB),” Trump said in a social media post Friday. “He did an excellent job serving in this role in my First Term – We cut four Regulations for every new Regulation, and it was a Great Success!
Trump added that Vought was an “aggressive cost cutter and deregulator who will help us implement our America First Agenda across all Agencies.”
“Russ knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State and end Weaponized Government, and he will help us return Self Governance to the People,” Trump wrote. “We will restore fiscal sanity to our Nation, and unleash the American People to new levels of Prosperity and Ingenuity. I look forward to working with you again, Russ. Congratulations. Together, we will Make America Great Again!”
CNN’s Erin Burnett noted on air while breaking news of Trump’s latest cabinet selection that Vought was a main architect of Project 2025, which Trump disavowed during his campaign.
“But Russell Vought is one of the main architects of it, and he has been picked by Trump to head the Office of Management and Budget," she told viewers.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) said Trump clearly wants Vought in a key role to move forward on priorities laid on in the Project 2025 agenda.
“He is putting the architect of Project 2025 in a central position to enact the agenda of Project 2025," Crow told Burnett Friday “And that's everything from federal abortion bans, to weaponizing the military for his culture war, and gutting Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid – all the things that are explicit in that program are articulated by Mr. Vought and he wants him in a key role to effectuate it.”
A computer shows a Project 2025 screen. (Bella1105/ Shutterstock)
Russell Vought, a co-author of the highly controversial “Project 2025” initiative, has been nominated to be the country’s next director of the Office of Management and Budget – a position he’s held before.
President-elect Donald Trump made the pick Friday as part of his rollout of his economic team just hours after naming Wall Street insider Scott Bessent to lead the Treasury Department. Vought’s nomination would return him to the powerful agency that he ran during Trump’s first term, where he would be tasked with setting budget priorities, managing agencies and executing the incoming president’s campaign promises to slash government regulations.
“I am very pleased to nominate Russell Thurlow Vought, from the Great State of Virginia, as the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB),” Trump said in a social media post Friday. “He did an excellent job serving in this role in my First Term – We cut four Regulations for every new Regulation, and it was a Great Success!
Trump added that Vought was an “aggressive cost cutter and deregulator who will help us implement our America First Agenda across all Agencies.”
“Russ knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State and end Weaponized Government, and he will help us return Self Governance to the People,” Trump wrote. “We will restore fiscal sanity to our Nation, and unleash the American People to new levels of Prosperity and Ingenuity. I look forward to working with you again, Russ. Congratulations. Together, we will Make America Great Again!”
CNN’s Erin Burnett noted on air while breaking news of Trump’s latest cabinet selection that Vought was a main architect of Project 2025, which Trump disavowed during his campaign.
“But Russell Vought is one of the main architects of it, and he has been picked by Trump to head the Office of Management and Budget," she told viewers.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) said Trump clearly wants Vought in a key role to move forward on priorities laid on in the Project 2025 agenda.
“He is putting the architect of Project 2025 in a central position to enact the agenda of Project 2025," Crow told Burnett Friday “And that's everything from federal abortion bans, to weaponizing the military for his culture war, and gutting Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid – all the things that are explicit in that program are articulated by Mr. Vought and he wants him in a key role to effectuate it.”
RFK Jr. planning major changes to Medicare: report
Matthew Chapman
November 21, 2024
Sarah K. Burris
November 20, 2024
The video, revealed by The Bulwark on Tuesday, shows Kennedy — President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services — talking about the pandemic, and that "a lot of it feels very planned to me."
Also read: RFK Jr. earns millions from conservative and anti-vax companies: disclosure
“Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned from the outset. It’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me,” Kennedy told the press while he was opening a new chapter of his group, the Children's Health Defense, which has promoted vaccine conspiracies in online ads, according to The Washington Post.
“I don’t know. I will tell you this: If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them," he said.
Tapper came back from the video clip to say, "Okay, so I can tell you the answer to that. I have enough evidence, and that's insane. That's not what happened. Horrible."
He turned to Trump supporter and Republican strategist David Urban to point out that Kennedy "isn't even a Republican" and ask why his party is standing behind him.
Urban and Kate Bedingfield, former White House communications director for Joe Biden, began talking over each other in an attempt to talk about Kennedy.
Bedingfield and Tapper both pointed out to Urban that Kennedy was saying that about Trump, who was president at the time.
Urban said he found a meme funny because Trump is nominating Democrats such as Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Kennedy and others.
See the video below or at the link here.
- YouTubeyoutu.be
Matthew Chapman
November 21, 2024
RAW STORY
FILE PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump greet each other at a campaign event sponsored by conservative group Turning Point USA, in Duluth, Georgia, U.S., October 23, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, is best known for his conspiracy theories about vaccines, COVID-19, and AIDS — but those are not the only ideas he has for overhauling the federal government. In particular, according to The Washington Post, he wants to make a significant technical overhaul to the way Medicare works.
Specifically, according to the report, he wants to audit and overhaul how medical billing codes work for the national insurance program for America's seniors — an idea that even many Democrats have pushed for years.
Medical coding in the United States "tends to reward health-care providers for surgeries and other costly procedures. It has been accused of steering physicians to become specialists because they will be paid more, while financial incentives are different in other countries, where more physicians go into primary care — and health outcomes are better," wrote Dan Diamond, national health reporter for the Post.
"Medicare’s billing codes are shaped by the American Medical Association, which represents more than 250,000 physicians. The lobbying group oversees a panel of several dozen physicians — known as the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee, more commonly referred to as the RUC — who study the resources needed for each medical service and issue recommendations to the federal government," the report continued.
However, the RUC's advice has "historically been skewed by misleading estimates of how physicians spend their time, according to a 2013 Washington Post investigation," which has raised concerns about corruption from everyone from former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
This comes at the same time that Trump has tapped TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, a thoracic surgeon infamous for downplaying the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing unsupported dietary supplements, to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
While there appears to be some level of bipartisan agreement on the medical coding issue, some conservatives are expressing alarm at the fact that Kennedy, who used to be a Democrat, has wildly unpredictable views on GOP orthodoxy. The National Review recently blasted the pick in light of Kennedy's longtime support of abortion rights.
'That's insane': CNN's Jake Tapper stunned as he mocks RFK's 'plandemic' conspiracy theory
FILE PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump greet each other at a campaign event sponsored by conservative group Turning Point USA, in Duluth, Georgia, U.S., October 23, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, is best known for his conspiracy theories about vaccines, COVID-19, and AIDS — but those are not the only ideas he has for overhauling the federal government. In particular, according to The Washington Post, he wants to make a significant technical overhaul to the way Medicare works.
Specifically, according to the report, he wants to audit and overhaul how medical billing codes work for the national insurance program for America's seniors — an idea that even many Democrats have pushed for years.
Medical coding in the United States "tends to reward health-care providers for surgeries and other costly procedures. It has been accused of steering physicians to become specialists because they will be paid more, while financial incentives are different in other countries, where more physicians go into primary care — and health outcomes are better," wrote Dan Diamond, national health reporter for the Post.
"Medicare’s billing codes are shaped by the American Medical Association, which represents more than 250,000 physicians. The lobbying group oversees a panel of several dozen physicians — known as the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee, more commonly referred to as the RUC — who study the resources needed for each medical service and issue recommendations to the federal government," the report continued.
However, the RUC's advice has "historically been skewed by misleading estimates of how physicians spend their time, according to a 2013 Washington Post investigation," which has raised concerns about corruption from everyone from former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
This comes at the same time that Trump has tapped TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, a thoracic surgeon infamous for downplaying the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing unsupported dietary supplements, to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
While there appears to be some level of bipartisan agreement on the medical coding issue, some conservatives are expressing alarm at the fact that Kennedy, who used to be a Democrat, has wildly unpredictable views on GOP orthodoxy. The National Review recently blasted the pick in light of Kennedy's longtime support of abortion rights.
'That's insane': CNN's Jake Tapper stunned as he mocks RFK's 'plandemic' conspiracy theory
Sarah K. Burris
November 20, 2024
RAW STORY
CNN's Jake Tapper (Photo: Screen capture CNN video)
The normally straight-faced CNN host Jake Tapper couldn't hold back his skepticism after airing a newly unearthed video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggesting the U.S. government secretly orchestrated the COVID-19 pandemic.
CNN's Jake Tapper (Photo: Screen capture CNN video)
The normally straight-faced CNN host Jake Tapper couldn't hold back his skepticism after airing a newly unearthed video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggesting the U.S. government secretly orchestrated the COVID-19 pandemic.
The video, revealed by The Bulwark on Tuesday, shows Kennedy — President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services — talking about the pandemic, and that "a lot of it feels very planned to me."
Also read: RFK Jr. earns millions from conservative and anti-vax companies: disclosure
“Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned from the outset. It’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me,” Kennedy told the press while he was opening a new chapter of his group, the Children's Health Defense, which has promoted vaccine conspiracies in online ads, according to The Washington Post.
“I don’t know. I will tell you this: If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them," he said.
Tapper came back from the video clip to say, "Okay, so I can tell you the answer to that. I have enough evidence, and that's insane. That's not what happened. Horrible."
He turned to Trump supporter and Republican strategist David Urban to point out that Kennedy "isn't even a Republican" and ask why his party is standing behind him.
Urban and Kate Bedingfield, former White House communications director for Joe Biden, began talking over each other in an attempt to talk about Kennedy.
Bedingfield and Tapper both pointed out to Urban that Kennedy was saying that about Trump, who was president at the time.
Urban said he found a meme funny because Trump is nominating Democrats such as Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Kennedy and others.
See the video below or at the link here.
- YouTubeyoutu.be
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