RFK Jr. is already preparing to take over federal health agencies

Should Donald Trump win the November election, vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may gain more power and control over health and food policy than the cabinet secretaries of a possible future president.

According to Thursday’s report With Washington Post., Kennedy has been meeting with Trump’s transition team to discuss his future in a second Trump administration. Sources who spoke to Lent to say that Kennedy was asked to be White House czar – a position that would put him directly in contact with Trump and over the president’s cabinet.

Trump’s plans for Kennedy to take over the nation’s health agencies were something of a problem, given that it could be difficult for the conspiracy theorist to survive the required Senate vote needed to ratify executive branch agency nominations. But he could avoid that by taking on an oversight role in the White House

Sources also said Lent that Kennedy is already making preliminary plans in case he is brought into the Trump White House. “The president asked me to clean up corruption and conflict in agencies and end the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy said. Lent on Wednesday. “He wants measurable results within two years and restoring these agencies’ long traditions of evidence-based science and medicine to the highest standards.”

Kennedy was reportedly preparing 30/60/9 day plans for the period following Trump’s potential inauguration, while also preparing lists of potential medical personnel. These include siblings health care fraudsters Casey and Calley Means, former Trump Covid-19 adviser Marty Makary, and former Trump CDC director Robert Redfield. ​​

Earlier this week, Kennedy boasted that “President Trump promised me control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and several others… and then the USDA as well.” During Thursday’s Trump rally he told the audience that in addition to having enormous control over public health agencies, Kennedy would also be concerned with “women’s health.”

On Sunday, Trump told supporters at a rally at Madison Square Garden that he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and drugs.

Kennedy – an environmental lawyer by profession – has limited medical or public health qualifications. His appeal to Republicans centers largely around vaccine conspiracies. He is one of the most prominent advocates of false claims vaccinations cause autism spectrum disorders and suggested that vaccine research is responsible for diseases such as AIDS, Spanish flu and Lyme disease.

On Wednesday, Trump’s transition co-chair, Howard Lutnick explained that Kennedy’s beliefs about vaccinations were a major factor in any role he might play in the Trump administration.

“I spent two and a half hours with Bobby Kennedy Jr. this week.” – Lutnick told CNN. “He explained that when he was born we had three vaccines and autism was one in 10,000. Now a baby is born with 76 vaccines because in 1986 they gave up responsibility for vaccines. And here’s the best part: They started paying people at NIH, right? They pay them part of the money to vaccine companies.”

Lutnick insisted that Kennedy wanted to personally review the “data” on the vaccines to prove that they were in fact safe. “He says, ‘If you give me the data – I just want the data – I will take it and show you that it is not safe and that if you impose product liability, companies will immediately withdraw these vaccines from the market.’

But Kennedy’s plans go far beyond vaccines. Last week he wrote on Xformerly Twitter that “the FDA’s war on public health will soon end.”

“This includes aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunlight, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything that improves human health and cannot be patented by Pharma,” he added. “If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Save your records and 2. Pack your bags.”

Very few of the issues mentioned in Kennedy’s tirade are “suppressed.” Rather, Kennedy and a growing faction of the right believe that criticizing efforts to present pseudoscientific health trends as established science amounts to a form of censorship and repression. “I don’t think he understands the American health care system,” said former Obama health adviser Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel. Lent. “We saw these people arguing, but not very effectively.”

On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris discussed the potentially unprecedented influence that could be granted to Kennedy. “Trump has indicated that the person responsible for the health care of the American people will be RFK Jr., who regularly promotes junk science and crazy conspiracy theories,” she said. reporters from Madison, Wisconsin. “He once expressed support for a national abortion ban. This is exactly the last person in America who should be setting health care policy for American families and children.”