Former impartial presidential candidate and antivaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that former President Trump desires him to decide on leaders for key public well being companies if he wins the election in November.
Kennedy instructed conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that underneath a second Trump time period, he can be answerable for eliminating “corrupt influences” from companies, Mediaite first reported.
“President Trump has requested me particularly to do two issues. One, to assist unravel the seize of the companies by corrupt affect. In different phrases, to empty the swamp. And, you understand, I needed to say one thing about President Trump,” Kennedy instructed Carlson.
Kennedy named the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC), the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) as potential companies throughout a Tuesday cease in Wisconsin on Carlson’s stay tour.
Kennedy and Trump beforehand talked about conspiracy theories associated to the toxicity of childhood vaccines in a video posted to social media earlier this yr, The Hill reported.
In a separate interview with Carlson final month, Kennedy stated that Trump requested him to serve on his transition staff if the previous president serves a second time period.
Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt known as discussions about who will serve in a second Trump administration “untimely.”
“President Trump introduced a Trump Vance transition management group to provoke the method of making ready for what comes after the election. However formal discussions of who will serve in a second Trump Administration is untimely. President Trump will select one of the best folks for his Cupboard to undo all of the injury that Kamala Harris has finished to our nation,” she stated.
Democrats and the general public well being neighborhood sounded the alarm earlier this month about the potential for Kennedy changing into the Well being and Human Providers secretary in a second Trump time period. On the time, The Hill reported that Trump had not stated what, if any, Cupboard place he would supply Kennedy.
