Donald Trump claimed Thursday that Robert F. Kennedy, maybe probably the most well-known anti-vaxxer on this planet, is pretending to be in opposition to vaccines for political achieve, and that if elected, his “radical left” household will take over the nation and trigger it to break down.
Yes, in arguably one among his most absurd movies up to now, Trump laid out the explanations Republicans ought to vote for him and never the third-party candidate, chief amongst them being that Kennedy’s place on vaccines is seemingly a yearslong con. “RFK Jr. is a Democrat plant, a radical-left liberal who’s been put in place in order to help crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the United States, get reelected,” Trump says within the video. Appealing to conservatives who’re drawn to Kennedy’s harmful views on vaccines, Trump declares: “For those of you that want to vote [for him] because you think he’s an anti-vaxxer, he’s not really an anti-vaxxer, that’s only his political moment.… RFK’s views on vaccines are fake, as is everything else about his candidacy. Don’t think you’re going to vote for him and feel good.”
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In truth, Kennedy has devoted years to spreading anti-vaccine misinformation. As early as 2005, he wrote an article that was revealed in Rolling Stone and Salon, known as “Deadly Immunity,” wherein he alleged that the federal government had lined up a hyperlink between vaccines and autism. (Rolling Stone and Salon later retracted the piece, and the Salon editor who labored on it mentioned that after it went up, “we were besieged by scientists and advocates showing how Kennedy had misunderstood, incorrectly cited, and perhaps even falsified data…. It was the worst mistake of my career. I probably should have been fired.”) Kennedy has additionally claimed Anne Frank had it straightforward in comparison with what anti-vaxxers undergo. He wrote a ahead for a ebook that claimed COVID-19 vaccines brought about sudden deaths amongst wholesome younger folks, and featured on its cowl a 12-year-old who’d by no means obtained the COVID-19 vaccine and died on account of a malformed blood vessel in his mind. He has been blamed for stoking fears about vaccines within the run-up to a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 70 folks. The aforementioned is however a teeny, tiny pattern of the work that Kennedy has put into his anti-vaccine campaign.
Elsewhere within the video, Trump declares: “A lot of people think that Junior is a conservative—he’s not. He’s more liberal than anybody running on the Democrat side. A vote for Junior would essentially be a wasted protest vote that could swing either way but would only swing against the Democrats if Republicans knew the true story about him.… The fact is he is a radical-left person, so Republicans, get it out of your mind that you’re going to vote for this guy because he’s a conservative.” He additionally claims Kennedy’s household has mentioned they “will not let him to be a Republican,” as if that’s truly one thing RFK Jr. has been making an attempt to do.
Speaking of the Kennedy clan at massive, Trump ends his video by stating, “I’d even take Biden over Junior because our country would last about a year or two longer than it would with Junior, it would collapse almost immediately. And his family—a radical left, a crazy left, a bunch of lunatics—would take over and our country would die very quickly.”