Hillary Clinton Warns RFK’s ‘Crackpot’ Ideas Will ‘Cost Lives’
Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday that Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had “confused” many Americans with his “crackpot” ideas, blasting his attempts at “dismantling” public health as “very destructive” and “anti-science.”
Clinton’s tirade comes just two days after Kennedy stood beside Trump to announce an alleged link between use of the common painkiller medication Tylenol while pregnant with autism in newborn children
Kennedy tenure, so far, has been marked by cuts to mRNA vaccine research and a mass exodus of staff from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that have been protested by Health & Human Services (HHS) workers and experts alike – including his predecessors.
Clinton appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe for a ranging interview on Wednesday in which she talked about the work of the Clinton Health Access Initiative before pivoting to lambast the Trump administration’s direction on health policy:
We’re doing a series of working groups, and in those working groups are experts, not just from the United States but all over, and one of the biggest concerns is what we are doing in our own country to put our own people’s health at risk: dismantling public health, listening to literally crackpot ideas about what’s happening.
The Democrat then noted that in 1800 U.S. life expectancy was 35 and is now 78, before rounding directly on Kennedy:
When I hear people like, you know, Kennedy and others talking about getting back to a time when we aren’t vaccinating, we’re drinking raw milk – yeah! And people didn’t live. I mean, this is so crazy, it’s so wrongheaded, it’s so shortsighted, and it’s going to cause deaths. We just saw two children die from whooping cough. We saw the deaths from measles.
Acknowledging that scientific processes needed to be “tested” she continued to accuse the Trump administration of trying to “turn the clock back” on medical progress:
These guys want to literally turn the clock back. And, you know, when I see what is likely to happen because people are being confused – when your president says something, when Kennedy who’s the secretary of HHS says something, what are you supposed to believe? When you fire experts who’ve spent their entire life studying something that I want to know about. I have three grandchildren. I want to make sure they’re healthy.
People are confused, and too many Americans are listening to this, you know, very destructive, anti-science tirade that we’re hearing from this administration. And it’s going to cost lives. It already is costing lives.
Watch above via MSNBC.
