Tag: RFK Jr.

RFK Jr. Pulls $500 Million in Vaccine Development Projects

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$500 million

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted,” the AP reports. “The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, Covid-19 and H5N1 infections.”

Shapiro: Let’s Not Reward Congressional Bullsh*t on Vaccines

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“It is dangerous to me that politicians are being rewarded for spewing absolute bullshit when it comes to vaccines. What they’re doing is incredibly dangerous for public health. I think we have a responsibility to not reward them politically and to stand up against what they are pushing out there.”

— Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), quoted by Rolling Stone.

Nobel Laureates Band Together Against RFK Jr.

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75

“More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services,” the New York Times reports. “The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice.”

Trump Paid $100,000 for RFK Jr.’s Capitulation and Endorsement

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$100,000

“Weeks after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race in August and endorsed Donald Trump, the Trump campaign paid a California law firm that lists Kennedy among its lawyers,” NBC News reports. “The Trump campaign — now known as Never Surrender Inc. — disbursed $100,000 to ‘JW Howard Attorneys’ on Sept. 13, just three weeks after Kennedy bowed out of the race and backed Trump, FEC records show. Financial data for Trump’s campaign, which was converted to a leadership PAC, appears in FEC filings under the new Never Surrender name.”

RFK Jr.: COVID Was a ‘Plandemic’

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“Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned from the outset, it’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me. I don’t know. I will tell you this: If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them.”

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quoted by The Bulwark in August 2020.

RFK Jr. Not Sure What His VP Pick Is Doing

Buck Banks

“I ran into her yesterday.”

“Almost exactly a month after introducing Nicole Shanahan as his vice-presidential pick in a carefully choreographed Bay Area extravaganza, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. still seemed a bit unclear on exactly how his running mate was spending her time,” the Washington Post reports. “He offered some vague reassurances that the woman he had recently chosen to potentially sit just a heartbeat from the presidency was ‘working on every issue’ and ‘doing a lot of podcasts’ — and that while he couldn’t say ‘exactly what her schedule is,’ he was ‘very happy with what she’s doing.’”