Newfound Trump ally and notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr. claimed that former President Donald Trump wants him to select the leaders of key public health agencies should he win the upcoming presidential election.
Kennedy Jr., who abandoned his independent bid for the presidency to join Trump’s transition team in late August, alongside fellow ex-Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, told MAGA commentator Tucker Carlson that in a future administration, he would be tasked with purging “corrupt influences” from the agencies to “drain the swamp.”
Kennedy Jr.’s fringe views on health and vaccinations are well documented, even coming up in a recorded call with Trump before he decided to switch to the Republican campaign.
Agencies named by Kennedy Jr. during a Wisconsin stop on Carlson’s live tour Tuesday included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Kennedy Jr. told the host: “President Trump has asked me specifically to do two things. One, to help unravel the capture of the agencies by corrupt influence. In other words, to drain the swamp. And, you know, I had to say something about President Trump.”
Continuing, he praised the Republican nominee for his skepticism during the covid pandemic: “President Trump has many extraordinary gifts, and one of them is that he has very, very good instincts. And when he came out the first time, you remember, he was very against the lockdowns, publicly. He was for hydroxychloroquine. He was for alternative medicines. He was against the mass. But he was surrounded by bureaucrats and knowledgeable experts who ultimately pushed back on those assumptions and got us into some policies that, I think, were really bad for our country. He’s not going to do that again.”
He added: “So I think that, and he’s asked me to do that, and he’s asked me to help him end the childhood disease, chronic disease epidemic, and make Americans healthy again.”
The crowd applauded as Carlson asked him to expand on how he would seek to achieve those goals.
Kennedy Jr. replied: “That’s unclear because there’s no… You know, at this point, like I said, I’m on the transition committee and there is no… I don’t have a post for myself that’s picked out. I know that I’m going to be deeply involved in helping to choose the people who can run FDA and NIH and CDC in a way that restores public health rather than…”
Interrupting, the host laughed out loud and gleefully mused that those currently running the agencies “must be dying.”
“Can you imagine if you’re at FDA or NIH and Bobby Kennedy all of a sudden… I mean, they must be dying. They must dying,” Carlson exclaimed.
Kennedy Jr. added: “But I’ll bring in people to run those agencies like Calley Means, like [Dr.] Casey Means.”
Dr. Casey Means, a trained physician, and Calley Means, an ex-lobbyist for the pharmaceutical and food industries, who are brother and sister, are outspoken critics of “Big Pharma” and promote lifestyle change as a means of fighting chronic disease.
Carlson laughed again at the prospect: “You think they’re gonna… I mean, they have nightmares about that.”
“Yeah, they should. Yeah, and they should,” Kennedy Jr. replied.
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