Former President Trump stated Thursday he would have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. work on “health and women’s health” and have a look at the nation’s meals provide, the most recent indication that the previous impartial presidential candidate might be given a large portfolio in a possible Trump administration.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. we have. And he’s going to work on health and women’s health and all of the different reasons, because we’re not really a wealthy or a healthy country,” Trump stated at a marketing campaign rally in Nevada.
“I told Bobby, ‘I want you to take care of health, I want you to look at the food and the food supply and what we put on the food and all sorts of — you can look at, but let me handle the oil and gas, Bobby,'” Trump added.
Kennedy, who has led an initiative for the Trump marketing campaign dubbed “Make America Healthy Again,” has lengthy drawn criticism for his anti-vaccine feedback. He has spoken in regards to the proliferation of processed meals and components, and he has labored as an environmental lawyer.
Medical consultants have raised issues about Kennedy’s potential affect in a future Trump administration.
Kennedy stated Monday that Trump had promised him “control” of public well being companies, together with the Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS) and the Division of Agriculture (USDA), ought to he win a second time period.
Howard Lutnick, a co-chair of Trump’s transition crew, stated in a CNN interview on Wednesday that Kennedy wouldn’t have a job main these companies, however as an alternative can be given federal knowledge on vaccines so he might show they’re “not safe.”
Kennedy has denied being towards vaccines outright however has lengthy peddled debunked conspiracy theories about them. At a congressional listening to final 12 months, he denied telling individuals to keep away from getting vaccinated, however two years earlier he stated on a podcast that he frequently tells strangers to not vaccinate their infants. And on CNN in December, he denied saying no vaccines are “safe and effective,” regardless of having stated precisely that in an interview final July.
