Former President Donald Trump on Sunday night again said he would give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. broad access in his administration, even as Kennedy over the weekend offered more controversial policy proposals.
“I told a great guy, RFK Jr., Bobby — I said, ‘Bobby, you work on women’s health, you work on health, you work on what we eat. You work on pesticides. You work on everything,’” Trump said at a rally in Macon, Georgia.
Kennedy, who Trump has suggested would oversee a health portfolio in a potential future administration, wrote in a social media post Saturday that Trump’s administration would “advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water,” claiming it was tied to numerous medical conditions. On Sunday, Trump said the proposal “sounds OK to me.”
Asked about Kennedy’s comments, Trump campaign senior adviser Danielle Alvarez told CNN, “While President Trump has received a variety of policy ideas, he is focused on Tuesday’s election.”
Kennedy has a long history of sharing baseless conspiracy theories about the impacts of man-made chemicals in the environment. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer before entering politics, has repeatedly suggested that chemicals in the environment could be making children gay or transgender.
Howard Lutnick, co-chair of the Trump-Vance transition team, said last week that Kennedy is “not getting a job for (the Department of Health and Human Services),” contrary to a claim the activist made Tuesday, when he said Trump promised to give him “control” of several public health agencies, HHS among them.
Source: CNN