Robert F. Kennedy, appointed by Trump to health, swears “not to be antivaccin” and says “support his anti-abortion policies”

For a big oral, Robert Kennedy did not make great mystery. Faced with a very acquired Senate for the cause of Trump, he released his truths. “Newspaper articles claimed that I was antivaccin or against any other industry, while I am not and that I am for security,” he assured members of the finance committee of the Chamber high of the congress during a tense hearing.

“You say one thing and then tell another. Today you deny under oath to be against vaccines, but during an interview with a podcast in July 2023, you said, I quote: No vaccine is safe and effective “Reported to him the Democratic senator Ron Wyden.

Robert Kennedy Jr. has made the relay of numerous conspiracy theories in recent years on COVVI-19 vaccines as on alleged ties between vaccination and autism.

“Alarm signals”

Due to these past positions, the appointment of RFK Jr. arouses the great concern of scientists and health professionals at a time when the circulation of avian flu virus in the United States revives fears of a pandemic.

“His positioning on many health issues goes against established scientific knowledge, and these are important alarm signals,” insisted before the Syra Madad hearing, epidemiologist and member of the Harvard Belfer Center, with AFP.

The former Democrat, recently joined Donald Trump, also promotes unpasteurized milk, so dreaded by health agencies, and calls for stopping the addition of fluorine in running water, a practice considered as a large Health success in the fight against dental cavities, but which divides the scientific community.

If he was confirmed to the post of Minister of Health, the nephew of the murdered president JFK, aged 71, would take the lead of a federal agency employing more than 80,000 people and in charge of the health of more than 340 million ‘inhabitants of the country.

His criticisms of American health agencies, which he accuses of corruption, also fears a large reshuffle of the ministry if he came to be confirmed.

Anti-abortion

The one who was an independent candidate for the last American presidential election, before joining Donald Trump, could face the opposition of senators from the two camps, responsible for confirming it at his post.

The conservative association founded by the former vice-president of Donald Trump, Mike Pence, called on parliamentarians to reject his candidacy because of his positions, which she considers “pro-abortion”.

Robert Kennedy Jr., who had contradictory remarks on the subject, notably defending the idea that women should be able to abort all their pregnancy, however assured Wednesday that he would put himself behind the advice of Donald Trump.

“I agree with President Trump to say that each abortion is a tragedy,” he said, saying that the billionaire had asked him to reassess the security of Miffepristone, a pill that combined with a Another cachet is used in drug abortion in the United States.

The septuagenarian could however obtain the support of certain Democratic senators thanks to his commitment to the fight against pesticides and for a healthy food. RFK Jr. promised to “put an end to the epidemic of chronic diseases” and to tackle the problem of obesity.

Apart from his positions, it is also his personality that is debated after a series of shattering revelations. Accroi to heroin in her youth, the elusive member of the Kennedy dynasty said last year that he had abandoned the corpse of a pooh in Central Park in New York and had to have a worm from her brain.

On the eve of her hearing, her cousin Caroline Kennedy enjoined the senators in a letter to reject the appointment of the one she describes as “predator”. “He liked to show how he put babies chickens and mice in a mixer robot to feed his hawks,” she reports in this text.