Former President Trump stated Thursday he would have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. work on “well being and girls’s well being” and have a look at the nation’s meals provide, the most recent indication that the previous impartial presidential candidate may very well be given a large portfolio in a possible Trump administration.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now we have. And he’s going to work on well being and girls’s well being and the entire completely different causes, as a result of we’re not likely a rich or a wholesome nation,” Trump stated at a marketing campaign rally in Nevada.
“I advised Bobby, ‘I would like you to handle well being, I would like you to have a look at the meals and the meals provide and what we placed on the meals and all kinds of — you’ll be able to have a look at, however let me deal with the oil and gasoline, Bobby,'” Trump added.
Kennedy, who has led an initiative for the Trump marketing campaign dubbed “Make America Wholesome Once more,” 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 “management” of public well being businesses, together with the Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) and the Division of Agriculture (USDA), ought to he win a second time period.
Howard Lutnick, a co-chair of Trump’s transition workforce, stated in a CNN interview on Wednesday that Kennedy wouldn’t have a job main these businesses, however as a substitute could be given federal knowledge on vaccines so he may show they’re “not protected.”
Kennedy has denied being towards vaccines outright however has lengthy peddled debunked conspiracy theories about them. At a congressional listening to final yr, he denied telling folks to keep away from getting vaccinated, however two years earlier he stated on a podcast that he recurrently tells strangers to not vaccinate their infants. And on CNN in December, he denied saying no vaccines are “protected and efficient,” regardless of having stated precisely that in an interview final July.
