The editorial board of the New York Submit is admonishing President-elect Trump over his nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the division of Well being and Human Providers.
The Submit known as Kennedy’s views on well being “a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.”
“He told us with full conviction that all America’s chronic health problems began in one year in the 1980s when a dozen bad things happened,” the Submit wrote of an interview it carried out with Kennedy as he was mounting an impartial presidential bid.
“Convincing to the gullible conspiracy-hungry crowd on Twitter, but not to the rest of us,” the newspaper mentioned. “In fact, we came out thinking he’s nuts on a lot of fronts.”
Kennedy, who dropped out of the race this summer season and endorsed Trump, has drawn widespread backlash for his feedback on vaccines, the coronavirus pandemic and different issues of public well being.
Trump has touted Kennedy’s concepts, and vowed the previous Democrat will assist the president “Make America Healthy Again.”
The president-elect “won on promises to fix the economy, the border and soaring global disorder; his team needs to focus on delivering change on those fronts — not spend energy either having to defend crackpot theories or trying to control RFK Jr.’s mouth,” the Submit wrote.
“We fear the worm that he claims ate some of his brain some years ago is contagious and there’s been an outbreak at Mar-a-Lago,” it mentioned.
