RFK Jr. says Trump promised control of several health agencies, campaign demurs

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed erstwhile President Trump has promised to springiness him power of respective agencies overseeing wellness successful a aboriginal administration, but a run spokesperson demurred Wednesday and said thing has been decided.

The anti-vaccine activist, who ended his autarkic statesmanlike run and endorsed Trump successful August, said successful a recently unearthed video that Trump has vowed to springiness him oversight of the Health and Human Services and Agriculture departments.

“Trump has promised maine … power of the nationalist wellness agencies… which, you know, is cardinal to making America healthy,” Kennedy said successful a video sent to his supporters.

“I basal acceptable to assistance him escaped the nationalist wellness agencies of their pervasive conflicts and corruption and reconstruct their contented of gold-standard, evidence-based science,” Kennedy added successful a statement.

RFK Jr. ticked disconnected the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration arsenic organizations that helium would oversee if Trump beats Vice President Kamala Harris successful the hotly contested contention for the White House.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump told his rally astatine Madison Square that he intended to fto RFK Jr. “go chaotic connected medicines” if helium wins backmost power.

RFK Jr. has besides been named to a slot connected the Trump modulation team, though it’s not truly wide however overmuch powerfulness that would springiness him.

Trump run spokesperson Steven Cheung said Wednesday that no promises person been made astir furniture positions oregon bureau heads.

“Discussions of who volition service successful a 2nd Trump Administration is premature,” Cheung said.

Kennedy, the lad of slain statesmanlike campaigner Robert F. Kennedy, is possibly the nation’s astir salient vaccine skeptic.

He has dispersed outlandish conspiracy theories astir the COVID-19 vaccines which astir nationalist wellness experts recognition with saving the lives of millions of people worldwide.

Kennedy, who has been ostracized by respective members of his storied Democratic family, is a person of the alleged “medical state movement,” which broadly opposes vaccine mandates similar the ones that necessitate schoolhouse children to beryllium immunized.

Former President Donald Trump welcomes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the signifier astatine a Turning Point Action run rally astatine the Gas South Arena connected October 23, 2024 successful Duluth, Georgia. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump championed the COVID vaccines and erstwhile bragged that his Operation Warp Speed vaccine improvement programme saved millions of lives. But helium has changed his tune to bespeak the wide anti-vaxxer sentiment among his right-wing MAGA supporters.

Public wellness experts accidental Kennedy would beryllium a disastrous prime to pb immoderate national bureau but peculiarly ones that oversee life-saving vaccines.

Even Dr. Jerome Adams, Trump’s erstwhile surgeon general, warned against giving RFK Jr. immoderate important nationalist wellness role, particularly 1 related to vaccines.

“I would counsel Republicans (against going) backwards connected 1 of the fig 1 nationalist wellness achievements made successful the past 50 to 75 years successful this country,” Adams said Monday astatine a league of the American Public Health Association