Democratic senators introduced the fireplace to a Wednesday affirmation listening to that may assist decide whether or not or not infamous anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will change into Donald Trump’s secretary of well being and human providers.
New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan wiped the ground with Kennedy throughout his look earlier than the Senate Finance Committee. She began by drilling him on all of his loopy vaccine claims earlier than skewering his brazen flip-flop on reproductive rights.
“So, Mr. Kennedy, I’m confused. You have clearly stated in the past that bodily autonomy is one of your core values,” Hassan said. “The question is, do you stand for that value or not? When was it that you decided to sell out the values you’ve had your whole life in order to be given power by President Trump?”
Whereas Kennedy tried his hardest to sidestep the query, Hassan was not having any of it.
“So what you’re telling us, just to be clear, because my time is limited, is that regardless of what you believe, regardless of what values you have, if President Trump tells you to do something, you’re going to do it,” she summarized.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont stated he and Kennedy appeared to agree concerning the corruption of our well being care system, however then backed Kennedy right into a nook when he requested the fake well being crusader a easy query: Is well being care a human proper?
“In the way that free speech is a human right?” Kennedy responded, earlier than trying to squirm out of it. Sanders completed Kennedy off by calling out the anti-vaccine child onesies his so-called well being advocacy group is hawking on-line.
Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota held Kennedy’s toes to the fireplace concerning the many occasions he has misinformed the general public a couple of supposed hyperlink between antidepressants and college shootings.
Quite a few research have debunked the misinformation on psychological well being that RFK Jr. and the GOP have relied on to be able to stall and undermine makes an attempt at gun security laws. In fact, there may be proof that faculty shootings result in extra younger folks requiring antidepressant therapies after they’ve survived the phobia.
Elizabeth Warren’s capability to stroll Kennedy proper into exposing himself as yet one more Trumpy grifter was a grasp class in itself. The senator from Massachusetts received into it with the nominee when he tried to wriggle out of committing to not revenue off of his place if he’s confirmed as Trump’s choose to steer the Division of Well being and Human Companies.