Trump Threatens to Ban Vaccines

Throughout a call with NBC News over the weekend, former president Donald Trump revealed that famed conspiracy nut and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would play “a giant function within the administration” if he have been to be elected on Tuesday.

Trump additionally did not rule out banning vaccines, one thing Kennedy Jr. had previously vowed to do — an unhinged and extremely harmful plan that flies within the face of widespread sense and scientific proof.

Much more surprisingly, the transfer would come regardless of the Trump administration’s early efforts to speed up the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine, which ultimately paid off in one of many administration’s signature accomplishments.

“Effectively, I’m going to speak to [Kennedy] and speak to different folks, and I’ll decide, however he’s a really proficient man and has sturdy views,” Trump stated of the person who bafflingly confessed to dumping a dead bear in Central Park earlier this 12 months.

Make no mistake, Kennedy Jr. is the furthest one might get from being a “proficient man.” The previous presidential candidate, who dropped out to publicly endorse Trump, has repeatedly made simply debunked claims such because the conspiracy principle that vaccines cause autism.

His opposition to vaccines made him a outstanding voice throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, regardless of being woefully misinformed on the topic and repeatedly leaning into nutty conspiracy theories.

“There’s no vaccine that’s secure and efficient,” Kennedy Jr. told Lex Fridman throughout a 2023 podcast episode.

Kennedy Jr. has gone so far as to say that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese language folks, an incorrect and racist remark that ought to totally discredit something he has to say on the subject.

He has additionally referred to as for a ban on fluoride in the water supply, saying it causes most cancers. That is regardless of there being no scientific evidence linking the 2. In truth, fluoride in each ingesting water and toothpaste has been demonstrated to stop cavities and strengthen tooth.

Naturally, that type of unhinged pseudoscience is catnip for a former president who once suggested we should inject ourselves with bleach to struggle off COVID.

“Effectively, I haven’t talked to him about it but, however it sounds OK to me,” Trump instructed NBC, referring to Kennedy’s vow to ban fluoride. “You already know, it’s potential.”

Kennedy Jr. revealed last week that Trump promised him “management” of the US Division of Well being and Human Providers and the US Division of Agriculture, foreshadowing a terrifying future for healthcare within the nation if Trump is elected.

Trump, nevertheless, has remained imprecise about Kennedy Jr.’s future function — although he did vow that he’ll “go wild on the medicines.”

Briefly, Trump’s feedback could also be pure pandering within the days main as much as the presidential election. As his fuzzy language suggests, there is a good likelihood the previous president has completely no plan on the subject of vaccine coverage anyway.

However even being keen to maintain the concept of banning vaccines on the desk, regardless of a mountain of proof that doing so can be extremely harmful, ought to have everyone petrified of a future with Trump again within the White Home.

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