An anti-vaccine at the head of the American health system. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health, as the president-elect himself announced in Truth Social.
“I am pleased to announce the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS),” Trump said: “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the complex industrial food and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to health and social services. engage in deception and misinformation regarding public health. The safety and health of all Americans is the most important role of any administration, and HHS will play an important role in helping ensure that everyone is protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and food additives that contributed to this situation. Health crisis in this country. Kennedy will restore these agencies to scientific standards and transparency to end the chronic disease epidemic and make America great and healthy again!
The nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, who has a long anti-vaccine history, felt rejected by the Democratic Party, to which his father, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, also belonged, and campaigned for Donald Trump after withdrawing. his independent candidacy in the American presidential election.
Ignored by his party and the mainstream media in the United States, he began participating in far-right media spaces, such as Fox News, the channel that raised the mogul, as well as ultra-conservative podcasts. like Steve Bannon. (The War Room), Alex Jones (Infowars), Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan, among others.
In July, he was the protagonist of a media scandal with the leak of a recording in which he claimed that the coronavirus was “ethnically directed” to save Jews and Chinese. This isn’t the first conspiracy theory RFK Jr. has bought into. In June, he said on conservative Joe Rogan’s podcast, the nation’s most listened to, that Wi-Fi radio frequency signals caused cancer and “brain leaks.”
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He also did not hesitate to participate in the podcast of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist, transphobe and misogynist who is successful with young people, where he echoed a conspiracy theory according to which chemicals present in water transform children into transsexuals. On top of all that, he has said in the past that vaccines cause autism, that HIV was made so pharmaceutical companies can get rich selling drugs, and that 5G is a surveillance tool.
In another recent interviewwas convinced and concerned that the US government and big tech companies are monitoring and controlling citizens through technology and artificial intelligence, especially if “you do anything that has to do with dissent or disobedience to orders of the government.
