Kennedy named umbrella agencies that he would preside over in some form, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“The key that I think I am – you know, that President Trump has promised me is – is control of the public health agencies, namely HHS and its subagencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA, which – you know, is the key to making America healthy. Because we need to get rid of seed oils, we need to get rid of pesticide-intensive agriculture,” Kennedy said.
Trump, the Republican nominee, has said he is considering Kennedy, who is currently campaigning for him, for a role in health care. He ominously told a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday that he would let Kennedy “go crazy on the meds‘ in a potential second Trump White House.
Kennedy’s reputation as a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist would not bode well for a role in the CDC, which issued guidance during the pandemic.
Kennedy last year advanced a baseless conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to attack white and black people, while “the people most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” (He later said that he did not mean to suggest that it was ‘intentionally’ designed that way.)
He too wrongly claimed” that evidence “confirms” that the COVID-19 shot is “the deadliest vaccine ever created.”
Trump and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris are just days away from their Nov. 5 showdown for the presidency.
JS has contacted Trump’s office for comment.