RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination

Robert F. Kennedy Jr speaks before then Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign event, Sept. 27, 2024 in Walker, Mich. Picture: AP Photo/Carlos Osorio
Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr as US secretary of health and human services has prompted widespread criticisms towards Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist who has embraced a slew of other debunked health-related conspiracy theories.
In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump claimed that Americans have been “crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies” and that Kennedy “will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”