TRUMP'S HEALTH CZAR
MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard gets in RFK Jr.'s face over vaccine plansBE AFRAID, VERY AFRAID
Sarah K. Burris
Kennedy has spent years opposing vaccines, according to many reports. But when he spoke to Hillyard, he promised to ensure they were accessible to anyone who wanted them.
As FactCheck.org wrote, "Kennedy insists he’s not ‘anti-vaccine,’ but many of his debunked arguments are straight from the anti-vaccine playbook, which he and his nonprofit have helped write.”
Trump announced during a Nevada rally last week that Kennedy was "going to work on health and women's health."
Also Read: RFK Jr. earns millions from conservative and anti-vax companies: disclosure
"Would that include COVID vaccines that are currently on the market?" asked the reporter.
Kenndy hedged, saying he wanted the "best science" for vaccines, and Hillyard seized on the moment.
"As part of that, during the pandemic, the height of the pandemic, you were questioning the FDA and calling them out for approving the emergency authorization of the COVID vaccines. If you had been in charge of the FDA at that time, would you have blocked the authorization of the COVID vaccines?"
Kennedy claimed that he argued that vaccines wouldn't stop transmission.
"They were saying you need to take this vaccine in order to protect. I knew in May 2020 that the vaccines were not going to protect against transmission. I was reading the studies," Kennedy said.
The government had claimed that the vaccine would lessen the severity of the illness if transmitted and reduce the number of people dying in hospitals.
Hillyard challenged whether RFK would have allowed the vaccine, and Kenndy dodged again, saying he would have been "honest."
"You wouldn't have blocked it?" Hillyard hammered.
"I wouldn't directly block it," Kennedy said. "I would have made sure we had the best science. There was no effort to do that at that time."
So Hillyard asked why the American people should have confidence that he would ensure a vaccine was available in the future in a similar situation. He also grilled Kennedy on which agencies he would eliminate, a question that comes from the politician's campaign pledge to close down the Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control.
Watch the interview below or at the link here.
Sarah K. Burris
RAW STORY
November 6, 2024
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
MSNBC's political reporter Vaughn Hillyard challenged Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tuesday after he claimed that he didn't want to eliminate vaccines.
November 6, 2024
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
MSNBC's political reporter Vaughn Hillyard challenged Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tuesday after he claimed that he didn't want to eliminate vaccines.
Kennedy has spent years opposing vaccines, according to many reports. But when he spoke to Hillyard, he promised to ensure they were accessible to anyone who wanted them.
As FactCheck.org wrote, "Kennedy insists he’s not ‘anti-vaccine,’ but many of his debunked arguments are straight from the anti-vaccine playbook, which he and his nonprofit have helped write.”
Trump announced during a Nevada rally last week that Kennedy was "going to work on health and women's health."
Also Read: RFK Jr. earns millions from conservative and anti-vax companies: disclosure
"Would that include COVID vaccines that are currently on the market?" asked the reporter.
Kenndy hedged, saying he wanted the "best science" for vaccines, and Hillyard seized on the moment.
"As part of that, during the pandemic, the height of the pandemic, you were questioning the FDA and calling them out for approving the emergency authorization of the COVID vaccines. If you had been in charge of the FDA at that time, would you have blocked the authorization of the COVID vaccines?"
Kennedy claimed that he argued that vaccines wouldn't stop transmission.
"They were saying you need to take this vaccine in order to protect. I knew in May 2020 that the vaccines were not going to protect against transmission. I was reading the studies," Kennedy said.
The government had claimed that the vaccine would lessen the severity of the illness if transmitted and reduce the number of people dying in hospitals.
Hillyard challenged whether RFK would have allowed the vaccine, and Kenndy dodged again, saying he would have been "honest."
"You wouldn't have blocked it?" Hillyard hammered.
"I wouldn't directly block it," Kennedy said. "I would have made sure we had the best science. There was no effort to do that at that time."
So Hillyard asked why the American people should have confidence that he would ensure a vaccine was available in the future in a similar situation. He also grilled Kennedy on which agencies he would eliminate, a question that comes from the politician's campaign pledge to close down the Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control.
Watch the interview below or at the link here.
Potential Trump cabinet member gives first insights into his health priorities
Brad Reed
Brad Reed
RAW STORY
November 6, 2024
Sick child with the measles (Shutterstock)
Former left-wing conspiracy theorist turned Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has big plans now that the twice-impeached former president is now heading back to the White House.
NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that Kennedy told him during an interview on Wednesday that the new Trump administration "will recommend getting fluoride out of drinking water" and will also provide consumers with more "information" about vaccines.
Kennedy has for decades pushed baseless theories linking vaccines to autism, despite the fact that multiple studies have found no such link.
According to the Mayo Clinic, "a small study in 1998 suggested a link between vaccinations and autism spectrum disorder," although "the study was reviewed further and retracted" and "the author's medical license was revoked due to falsified information."
Additionally, fluoridation of water has been credited with vastly reducing cavities in children.
Kennedy was long a fringe figure in Democratic politics who pushed false conspiracy theories about former President George W. Bush stealing the 2004 election from rival John Kerry.
November 6, 2024
Sick child with the measles (Shutterstock)
Former left-wing conspiracy theorist turned Trump ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has big plans now that the twice-impeached former president is now heading back to the White House.
NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that Kennedy told him during an interview on Wednesday that the new Trump administration "will recommend getting fluoride out of drinking water" and will also provide consumers with more "information" about vaccines.
Kennedy has for decades pushed baseless theories linking vaccines to autism, despite the fact that multiple studies have found no such link.
According to the Mayo Clinic, "a small study in 1998 suggested a link between vaccinations and autism spectrum disorder," although "the study was reviewed further and retracted" and "the author's medical license was revoked due to falsified information."
Additionally, fluoridation of water has been credited with vastly reducing cavities in children.
Kennedy was long a fringe figure in Democratic politics who pushed false conspiracy theories about former President George W. Bush stealing the 2004 election from rival John Kerry.
RFK Jr. discusses fluoride, vaccines as he says he's ready to take role with Trump administration
By Mike Heuer
By Mike Heuer
Nov. 6, 2024 /
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a House Judiciary hearing on the federal government on July 20, 2023, in Washington, D.C., and on Wednesday said he will join President-elect Donald Trump's team in some capacity and focus on health issues. File Photo by Jemal Countess/UPI | License Photo
Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to have a role within President-elect Donald Trump's administration and says fluoridated water and vaccines are priorities.
"President Trump has given me three instructions," Kennedy told NPR host Steve Inskeep during a phone interview on Wednesday.
"He wants the corruption and conflicts out of the regulatory agencies," Kennedy said. "He wants to return the agencies to the gold standard [of] empirically based, evidence-based science and medicine that they were once famous for.
"And he wants to end the chronic disease epidemic with measurable impacts on a diminishment of chronic disease within two years."
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a House Judiciary hearing on the federal government on July 20, 2023, in Washington, D.C., and on Wednesday said he will join President-elect Donald Trump's team in some capacity and focus on health issues. File Photo by Jemal Countess/UPI | License Photo
Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to have a role within President-elect Donald Trump's administration and says fluoridated water and vaccines are priorities.
"President Trump has given me three instructions," Kennedy told NPR host Steve Inskeep during a phone interview on Wednesday.
"He wants the corruption and conflicts out of the regulatory agencies," Kennedy said. "He wants to return the agencies to the gold standard [of] empirically based, evidence-based science and medicine that they were once famous for.
"And he wants to end the chronic disease epidemic with measurable impacts on a diminishment of chronic disease within two years."
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Kennedy said Trump's new administration immediately will recommend state and local governments cease adding fluoride to local water supplies.
He said a federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama on Oct. 4 ruled the Environmental Protection Agency hasn't done health and safety studies regarding the effects of fluoride in public water supplies.
"One of the findings ... was that at this level, fluoride is almost certainly causing neurological development," Kennedy said, "and loss of IQ in our children as well as arthritis, bone breakage, thyroid problems, bone cancer and a number of other diseases."
He said adding fluoride to water "made sense in the 1940s" but no longer does because it's added to toothpaste.
Kennedy cited Austria and Germany removing fluoride from their respective water supplies and said both nations have about the same or lower cavity rates than the United States.
Kennedy also said he will "immediately" begin work to ensure proper research is done on vaccines to better ensure "vaccine safety."
"We're not going to take vaccines away from anybody," Kennedy said. "We are going to make sure that Americans have good information right now."
He said the "science on vaccine safety" is lacking and it's important to ensure "scientific studies are done to enable people to make informed decisions regarding vaccinations for themselves and their children."
Inskeep asked Kennedy about his famous family's liberal ties and his former status as a Democrat, which Kennedy renounced and became a Republican earlier this year.
"You're now joining an administration that appears to be dominated by a handful of billionaires -- Elon Musk, John Paulson [and] Trump himself," Inskeep said. "How do you view what somebody might see as an extreme concentration of wealth and power that's coming here?"
"The Republican Party now only controls 30% of the wealth in our country," Kennedy responded. "The Democratic Party controls 70%, and this is really a metamorphosis that took place because of Donald Trump."
Trump chased billionaires out of the GOP and the Republican Party "now is the party of labor unions [and] and the party of working people," Kennedy said.
The GOP "is the party of the American poor," he added. "And those are the people who voted for Donald Trump. Those are the people that he's going to keep those promises to."
Kennedy said every presidential administration, including the Biden administration, has billionaires funding it, which is why the Biden and Harris campaigns outraised Trump by a two-to-one margin.
"If you want to worry about billionaires in government,you should have been asking that questions for the past four years," Kennedy said. "That is something that I've been concerned about my whole life."
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Kennedy said Trump's new administration immediately will recommend state and local governments cease adding fluoride to local water supplies.
He said a federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama on Oct. 4 ruled the Environmental Protection Agency hasn't done health and safety studies regarding the effects of fluoride in public water supplies.
"One of the findings ... was that at this level, fluoride is almost certainly causing neurological development," Kennedy said, "and loss of IQ in our children as well as arthritis, bone breakage, thyroid problems, bone cancer and a number of other diseases."
He said adding fluoride to water "made sense in the 1940s" but no longer does because it's added to toothpaste.
Kennedy cited Austria and Germany removing fluoride from their respective water supplies and said both nations have about the same or lower cavity rates than the United States.
Kennedy also said he will "immediately" begin work to ensure proper research is done on vaccines to better ensure "vaccine safety."
"We're not going to take vaccines away from anybody," Kennedy said. "We are going to make sure that Americans have good information right now."
He said the "science on vaccine safety" is lacking and it's important to ensure "scientific studies are done to enable people to make informed decisions regarding vaccinations for themselves and their children."
Inskeep asked Kennedy about his famous family's liberal ties and his former status as a Democrat, which Kennedy renounced and became a Republican earlier this year.
"You're now joining an administration that appears to be dominated by a handful of billionaires -- Elon Musk, John Paulson [and] Trump himself," Inskeep said. "How do you view what somebody might see as an extreme concentration of wealth and power that's coming here?"
"The Republican Party now only controls 30% of the wealth in our country," Kennedy responded. "The Democratic Party controls 70%, and this is really a metamorphosis that took place because of Donald Trump."
Trump chased billionaires out of the GOP and the Republican Party "now is the party of labor unions [and] and the party of working people," Kennedy said.
The GOP "is the party of the American poor," he added. "And those are the people who voted for Donald Trump. Those are the people that he's going to keep those promises to."
Kennedy said every presidential administration, including the Biden administration, has billionaires funding it, which is why the Biden and Harris campaigns outraised Trump by a two-to-one margin.
"If you want to worry about billionaires in government,you should have been asking that questions for the past four years," Kennedy said. "That is something that I've been concerned about my whole life."
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