‘He Lies!’ Protestors Disrupt RFK Jr’s Opening Statement As He Claims He’s Not Anti-Vaccine
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, was interrupted by protestors during his opening statement on Wednesday as he sought to dispel many of the doubts surrounding his nomination.
Kennedy has long been a controversial figure in U.S. politics and has been widely viewed as being one of the most high-profile critics of vaccine use in the United States, an accusation Kennedy rebuffed in his opening statement.
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Finance, Kenned said, “I promised President Trump that if confirmed, I will do everything in my power to put the health of Americans back on track.”
“And I have been greatly heartened to discover a deep level of care among members of this committee to both Democrats and Republicans. I came away from our conversations confident that we can put aside our divisions for the sake of a healthier America,” he continued, adding:
For a long time, the nation has been locked in a divisive health care debate about who pays. When health care costs reached 20%, there are no good options, only bad ones. Shifting the burden around between government and corporations and insurers and providers and families is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Our country will sink beneath a sea of desperation and debt. If we don’t change the course and ask why are health care costs so high in the first place, the obvious answer is chronic disease.
He continued and switched gears toward addressing his many critics, saying, “Before I conclude, I want to make sure the committee is clear about a few things. News reports have claimed that I’m anti-vaccine or any industry. I am neither. I am pro-safety.”
At this point a protest shouted, “He lies!” The protestor continued to shout and disrupt the hearing for several more seconds before being removed and Kennedy was quickly back to his remarks.
“I am pro safety. I worked for years to raise awareness about the mercury and toxic chemicals in fish. And nobody called me anti-fish. And I believe that vaccines play a critical role in health care. All of my kids are vaccinated. I’ve read many books on vaccines. My first book in 2014. The first line of it is ‘I am not anti-vaccine.’ And the last line is ‘I am not a vaccine’ nor am the enemy of food producers. American farms are the bedrock of our culture, of our politics, of our national security,” he continued.
CNN put together a report on Wednesday detailing some of Kennedy’s more bombastic anti-vaccine statements. Kennedy “argued vaccines make people ‘lose IQ’ and said the vaccine ‘dominant narrative’ has ‘little proof,’” wrote CNN while linking to each public statement.
In 2019 Kennedy said, “Nobody can tell you what the risk profile for any vaccine is. So anybody who says they’re safe and effective is not telling the truth because they can’t tell you that based on science.”
Trump’s HHS pick has also wildly claimed that vaccine makers intentionally work to put the most dangerous toxins possible in vaccines, “They literally went on a search throughout the world looking for the most toxic things that they could find in order to add them to the vaccine.”
Kennedy’s past history of conspiratorial public statements extends beyond vaccines as well. Kennedy has long been a lightning rod of controversy for wild claims, including that chemicals in the water turn children trans, Russia had weaponized WiFi radiation to cause cancer, and that the U.S. worked to develop “ethnic bioweapons.”
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