The New York Post Uses Trump’s Own Words Against ‘Radical Left Lunatic’ RFK Jr.: ‘No Republican Can Vote for This Guy’

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The New York Post used President Donald Trump’s own words against his nominee to serve as secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a scathing new editorial.

The Post kicked off its cases against Kennedy by repeating the one Trump made against him less than a year ago.

“I lived with RFK Jr. in New York and watched him convince Governor Cuomo to make Environmental moves that were outright NASTY,” wrote Trump on Truth Social back in April 2024.

“I’d even take Biden over Junior, because our Country would last a year or two longer prior to collapse,” he continued, before calling him “an Extreme Environmentalist who makes the Green New Scammers look Conservative, a Big Time Taxer and Open Border Advocate,” as well as “Radical Left Lunatic.”

“No Republican can vote for this guy,” he added.

“Mr. President, you were right,” agreed the Post. “The president and his team insist that RFK Jr. has been fitted with a policy straitjacket — that certain areas such as vaccines and objecting to energy strategy are off-limits. But in truth, the only straitjacket suitable for RFK Jr. is a real one.”

The center-right paper went on to slam Kennedy for being “a deeply damaged serial womanizer who once had a brain worm, left a dead bear in Central Park and hasn’t met a conspiracy theory he didn’t love,” before really going in on his anti-vaccine views.

“The Senate can save President Trump here from someone who will become a millstone around him and his agenda. This is a choice born of a political pact of which they were not a part. We sincerely believe Trump would live to regret a Secretary Kennedy. We know the United States would,” concluded the editorial. “So, senators, listen to Donald Trump — from April 2024. This is the wrong man in the wrong job. Send him packing.”

Kennedy is set to appear before two Senate committees for confirmation hearings later this week.

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