Before winning the presidential election, Donald Trump announced that he would be open to some of the controversial stances of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on public health, including views on vaccine safety.
Kennedy, the founder, chairman of the board and chief legal counsel for Children's Health Defense, a non-profit organization that seeks to end childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure, has long advocated against certain vaccines. Kennedy claimed that 60 percent of Americans today have chronic health issues, compared to just six percent when his uncle, John F. Kennedy, was president.
He also noted that nearly 77 percent of American boys are ineligible for military service because chronic health issues and diabetes rates among children have surged, with one in three classified as diabetic or pre-diabetic. Autism rates, too, have spiked from one in 10,000 in Kennedy's generation to one in 34 children today. Kennedy linked all these health issues to vaccines administered to children.
In line with this, NBC News asked Trump in a phone interview on Nov. 3 if he would consider Kennedy and his perspective on vaccines if elected.
"Well, I'm going to talk to [Kennedy] and talk to other people, and I'll make a decision, but he's a very talented guy and has strong views," Trump said. The former president did not specify the exact position Kennedy might hold, but sources close to the Trump campaign have indicated that Kennedy would focus on health-related initiatives, particularly on "chronic childhood disease."
Trump even hinted at a campaign event in Arizona that Kennedy "could do anything he wants" and reiterated his confidence in him.
Trump asked RFK Jr. to clean up corruption, end conflicts of interest in federal health agencies
Before Trump's interview, Kennedy had already revealed in a separate interview with NewsNation that Trump asked him to lead a major reorganization of federal health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and some of the agencies within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) if Trump wins on Nov. 5.
"He's asked me to clean up the corruption, number one," Kennedy said. "Number two, end the conflicts of interest."
During the interview, Kennedy clarified that the focus of his mandates would be on returning the health agencies to a foundation of "gold-standard, empirically based, evidence-based medicine." Kennedy also explained that the problem is particularly acute at the FDA, which "gets 50 percent of its budget from Big Pharma" and the NIH, which "collects royalties" when pharmaceutical companies sell products developed with NIH assistance.
He then described this excessive influence of corporate interests on U.S. regulatory agencies as "the biggest threat to American democracy."
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