An anti-vaccine at the head of US healthcare. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the US Department of Health, as announced by the president-elect himself in Truth Social.
“I am delighted to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS),” Trump said: “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and corporate pharmaceutical companies that have dedicated themselves to deception and misinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a large role in helping ensure that everyone will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and food additives. that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this country. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to scientific standards and transparency to end the chronic disease epidemic, and to make America great and healthy again!”
The nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, who has a long anti-vaccine history, felt repudiated by the Democratic Party, to which his father, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, also belonged, and has been campaigning for Donald Trump after withdraw his independent candidacy for the US presidential election.
Ignored by his party and by the leading media in the US, he began to participate in far-right media spaces, such as Fox News, the network that elevated the magnate, as well as in the podcasts of ultra-conservatives such as Steve Bannon (The War Room ), Alex Jones (Infowars), Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan, among others.
In July, he was involved in a media scandal with the leak of a recording in which he claimed that the coronavirus was “ethnically targeted” to save the Jews and the Chinese. It is not the first conspiracy theory that RFK Jr. joined. In June He stated on conservative Joe Rogan’s podcastthe most listened to in the country, that Wi-Fi radio frequency signals cause cancer and “brain leaks.”
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He also had no qualms about participate in Jordan Peterson’s podcasta Canadian psychologist, transphobe and misogynist who is successful among young people, where he echoed a conspiracy theory that claims that chemicals in the water supply turn children into transsexuals. In addition to all this, in the past he has said that vaccines cause autism, that HIV was manufactured so that pharmaceutical companies could get rich selling medicines, and that 5G is a surveillance tool.
In another recent interviewwas convinced and concerned that the US Government and big technology companies monitor and control citizens through technology and artificial intelligence, especially if “you are doing something that has to do with dissenting or disobeying the orders of the Government.” ”.
Source: www.eldiario.es