Calling Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “predator” who is addicted to power, Caroline Kennedy urged the U.S. Senate in a Tuesday letter to reject the nomination of her cousin to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary.
In a letter to Senators, Ms. Kennedy, who previously served as a U.S. ambassador to Australia and Japan and is the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, etched a damning sketch of her cousin, the latest condemnation Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has received from members of his own, prominent Democratic family.
Several denounced her cousin’s bid for the presidency last year. The letter, obtained by The Associated Press, was first reported by The Washington Post.
Ms. Kennedy said in the letter that her cousin’s views on vaccines are disqualifying. She offered senators personal details from their lives growing up together that she said pose an even greater concern.
She described her cousin’s basement, garage and dorm as being an epicenter for drug use, where he would also put baby chickens and mice in blenders to feed to his hawks.
“It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence,” she wrote. She also read the letter in a video recording, sharing it on social media. Attempts to reach Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for comment were not immediately successful.
He has openly talked about his heroin use and he pleaded guilty for bringing it on an airplane in 1984.
Kennedy now “preys on the desperation of parents of sick children,” she told senators, noting that he has vaccinated his own children while discouraging others from vaccinating theirs.
She also pointed out that Kennedy plans to still profit off a lawsuit against pharmaceutical company Merck over Gardasil, its human papillomavirus vaccine that prevents cervical cancer. Last year, he made over $850,000 from the arrangement.
“In other words, he is willing to enrich himself by denying access to a vaccine that can prevent almost all forms of cervical cancer and which has been safely administered to millions of boys and girls,” she wrote. She had previously not spoken about his candidacy or nomination for health secretary.
Her father was assassinated in 1963 when she was a young girl. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968 during his presidential campaign event.
“Unlike Bobby, I try not to speak for my father – but I am certain that he and my uncle Bobby, who gave their lives in public services, and my uncle Teddy, who devoted his Senate career to improving health care, would be disgusted,” Ms. Kennedy wrote.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday in his bid to become Trump’s health secretary. Another hearing for his nomination will be held on Wednesday in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee, the panel his uncle, Ted Kennedy, once chaired.
(AP)
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Unsane.
The outcome of a trauma caused by suddenly losing a parent at a young age Is being sceptical of others Including relatives.
The Torah world can boast many ba’alei tshuvah. Why can and should we not extend that same commendable status to others in the world at large who have sincerely repented? If RFK Jr. admitted his guilt and has not repeated the offenses, then let the guilt be transferred to his accusers. How about that!
That whole Kennedy family is messed up in many ways including their known perverse fetishes and I’m sure RFKjr has his share of plentiful baggage.
That being said, America is one of the sickest nations metabolically, highest with autism spectrum and autoimmune diseases while outspending everyone on Health Care. Time for some radical change because whatever we tried until now has not worked. The people have spoken.
to choose wellness: RFK jr. is up for big and powerful political position. how do YOU know he has sincerely repented?
She talks about her uncle Teddy. Teddy was a murderer.
@choosewellesss because he’s still peddling the same lies that killed children in Samoa (Google this if you don’t know what I’m talking about).
The problem that I see is the fact that any complaint made about this candidate applies multiple times more to such people as Fauci and his colleagues. For example, the complaint here is that allegedly Kennedy received referral fees while a private citizens. Well, Fauci and company, while employed by the government health agencies, received huge monetary compensation from the very drugs they were suppose to be monitoring. During Congressional questioning, when asking for details about the money (and this is on video) Fauci responded with words to the effect “that is something you will never know”. So the real point as I see it is that no matter how “bad” they make this candidate Kennedy to be, the alternatives were simply much, much worse.
JPA, the USA is not “one of the sickest nations”. It is merely the nation that is rich enough to have a large class of doctors and lawyers who are busy diagnosing every little thing so people can sue and get benefits and “compensation”. In other countries people are sicker, but get fewer diagnoses, have no chance of getting a big payout, and just get on with their lives.