The New York Post editorial board issued a sharp rebuke against President-elect Donald Trump’s most controversial nominee…
On Thursday, Trump nominated former presidential challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) triggering a range of responses. (RELATED: Trump To Nominate RFK Jr. As Head Of Health And Human Services: Report)
The Post called Kennedy’s views on health “a head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.”
“He told us with full conviction that all America’s chronic health problems began in one year in the 1980s when a dozen bad things happened,” the Post wrote of an interview it conducted with Kennedy as he was mounting an independent presidential bid.
“Convincing to the gullible conspiracy-hungry crowd on Twitter, but not to the rest of us,” the newspaper said. “In fact, we came out thinking he’s nuts on a lot of fronts.”
Kennedy, who dropped out of the race this summer and endorsed Trump, has drawn widespread backlash for his comments on vaccines, the coronavirus pandemic and other matters of public health.
The president-elect “won on promises to fix the economy, the border and soaring global disorder; his team needs to focus on delivering change on those fronts — not spend energy either having to defend crackpot theories or trying to control RFK Jr.’s mouth,” the Post wrote.
“We fear the worm that he claims ate some of his brain some years ago is contagious and there’s been an outbreak at Mar-a-Lago,” it said.
Pundit George Conway, an outspoken Republican critic of President-elect Trump, said the recent Cabinet picks are “truly as bad as you can imagine.”
He singled out the nominations of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, Tulsi Gabbard as national intelligence director and former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as U.S. attorney general.
“These three picks are truly as bad as you can imagine. If you were actively trying to do harm to the country, to destroy the country, these are the kinds of people, if not the people, you would pick,” Conway told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday.
When asked about whether Republicans will “defy Trump” on any of his choices, Conway seemed hesitant to say either way.
“I can’t say that with confidence. I wouldn’t bet that all three of them would go through, but I don’t think you can lose money betting on the spinelessness of Republican senators,” Conway said. (RELATED: Behind The Scenes: The Dark Plot Targeting Matt Gaetz Revealed)
Kathleen Sebelius, who served as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary during the Obama administration, said having RFK Jr. leading the department is “very frightening” for Americans.
“To have someone coming into a scientific agency that is a vaccine skeptic and may well undo decades of public health work, I think, is terrifying for the American public who rely on HHS from cradle to grave for resources, for information, for public health, for oversight of our food and medicines,” Sebelius told CNN’s John Berman.
“That, to me, is a very frightening aspect for the American public,” she added.
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Fox needs to condemn ALL the cabinet picks, even — and especially — the one for which they own former employee, Pete Hegseth, has been named. But it’s highly unlikey that that craven organization will do that.
Don’t be an idiot. Many of FOX News persons are republicans who state their thoughts which they are entitled.
I will say for a 72 year old man that has never had a vaccine or any other kind of big Pharma crap to and including aspirin, I am healthier than 95% of people half my age that have trusted that meds and genetically altered food and the chemicals that are put in the food are supposedly ok for you. Meanwhile since the sixties every disease known to man has increased because of all the chemicals put in food, and the obesity in America is out of control. Say what you will RFK is not very far off. You can get the same food in Europe that has none of the bullshit ingredients we have. They are also much healthier. I’ll go with RFK at least he cares.
What is scarier is allowing our FDA to be controlled by the Big Pharma companies they are supposed to protect us from. What is scary, is not RFKJr.
but people in government like Fauci who pushed experimental gene therapy after seeing the failed clinical trails data (Yes this has now come out via FOIA requests).
Hey Kate, how many senior citizens died alone in hospital beds due to your lockdowns. How many businesses were shuttered, how many folks unemployed? (But not Pelousy’s hairdresser.)Oh, so qualified.
You leftist MSM need to support all of the nominations!!! They will truly work for the citizens of America and the Oligarchy that is hiding in the DNC closet!!! The Dem-o-rats have been screwing us over for decades and I’m sick of it!!!
American public that relies on HHS from cradle to grave? That got me. Glad she’s out.
Undo years of Public Health work? Really?
Our government (Biden) signed an international agreement, pledging to reduce the Earth’s population by 80% by 2030!
Does that sound like our “health” is a concern of this government? Could they be willfully destroying our health, to comply with the agreement, AND to make Big Pharma rich in the process?
There’s plenty of evidence that mRNA technology is a bioweapon! There have been so many instances of “Died Suddenly,” everyone but the news media understands. The COVID JAB was a eugenics experiment, not a preventative or cure for anything!
Vaccines will do the job slowly and quietly.
Hardly anyone will even know it’s a
holocaust.
Thank you to this paper for eliminating any doubt that they will continue to send Americans to the showers, as instructed by their Deep State masters!
No foreign national should have any controlling interest over any US Media company. Murdock has never been and is not currently a US Citizen and holds control over several US Media Companies.This should be stopped. One of the problems we are having inthe US today in my opinion is that we have way too many foreign complanies pulling us in diffrent directions in various ways. When our Commerace Department allowed foreign nations to come in and take control of our national companies we gave away the farm. Companies in service industry, fuel, restraunts, supplies, and others are owned by our enemies and people that criticize us we need to disengranchise them with either boycotts or govenment action.
Let Trump pick his people. No one said shit about bidens dei picks
It’s his opinion. So what? He’s never run the country. Does he have a say. Say why their bad for the country. Be direct, be transparent, be critical, but explain ones position with examples, logic and truth. How will they destroy the country. The country has been hurt gravely by CDC, FDA, big pharma as well as many healthcare organizations. What will RFK do that’s so terrible. WHAT?
How hypocritical but typical of this washed up media forum. These idiots slandering RFK Jr who so far has been right about the Covid vaccine, all the deaths from heart and pulmonary complications. The Big Pharma push for profit vaccines to children so they cant attend school without the profitable jab and LOTS of them! No regard to what these chemicals do to their young bodies…. The American people have given a mandate for change. Over 70 million of us. What part of that doesn’t the leftie cronies and their bought and paid for media get? Real change. So stop with the arm chair quarterbacking and let the new President and his team get to work.
I am 100 percent in agreement with RFK. I am a researcher, writer, commentator, and author. My major studies are law, health issues, gardening/farming, and various technical matters. And I can tell you plainly that before RFK came on the scene, I firmly believed that the FDA needs to be removed because of the corruption by Big Pharma. Many of those who work for the FDA are former executives of Big Pharma, so where do you think the bias is going to lie? Big Pharma is the single largest contributor to all medical schools worldwide… again, where do you think the bias is going to lie? All one needs to do is examine what Europe is doing with their foods, and discover that many Americans who visit Europe and eat their foods are feeling much better, compared to when they return to the crap we are forced to eat and feeling worse. What we need more than anything, is to bring health issues back to all the grade schools, just like when I was a child back in the 1960s.