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The Issue: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. possibly leading the Department of Health and Human Services.
Americans owe The Post gratitude for lambasting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, as a deranged publicity hound (“Senators, vote ‘nay’ to a Health hazard like RFK,” Editorial, Jan. 28).
Kennedy has already harmed our country by spreading lies and misinformation about a vaccine that has been clinically vetted and used worldwide for generations.
For him to have suggested the polio vaccine is ineffective or dangerous is an outrage.
This vaccine eradicated polio in the US in the 1950s and ultimately worldwide — perhaps no vaccine has been more effective.
The American public deserves a highly qualified nominee for Health and Human Services.
Why Trump nominated Kennedy for such a crucial role is a mystery, given that he once called him a “radical left lunatic” and “completely incoherent about our nation’s health.”
The Senate must block RFK’s nomination.
Gerard Rosenthal
Manhattan
I fail to see the harm of having RFK lead the charge of making America healthy again.
Apparently, past HHS secretaries have failed miserably in the position — if the amount of obese people walking around is any indication.
Although some of RFK’s past remarks are concerning, I would prefer that Kennedy at least be given a chance to clarify them in the hearings.
I trust Trump’s judgment and respect RFK’s commitment in the face of unfair castigation by his family and the press.
Don Whitman
Cross River
So Trump previously called RFK “a radical left loser,” but now he wants him to be head of Health and Human Services for our country?
He only promised him this position because he wanted whatever voters RFK had.
That’s the only reason he became chummy with him: typical Trump.
RFK is crazy and his ideas are dangerous to the health of the people in this country.
Most of his own family have said as much about him.
I am a senior and not so concerned about myself, but I fear for my children and my grandchildren.
This position is too important to the health of this nation to give to this lunatic.
Kennedy’s father and uncle must be rolling over in their graves.
Michele DeStefano
Totowa, NJ
Only lunacy can explain how you could possibly call RFK Jr. “dangerous.”
Kennedy is only a danger to the corrupt bureaucrats in Washington who have sold Americans down the river in favor of their friends in the pharmaceutical industry and the big food conglomerates.
Kennedy has repeatedly said that he’s not anti-vaccine: He wants safe vaccines, and so do Americans.
Only a lunatic would vote “nay” on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
Margaret Menge
Bloomington, Ind.
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RFK Jr. will be a perfect addition to Donald Trump’s “thug-ocracy” Cabinet (“RFK Jr. anti-vax stance a ‘$cam,’ ” Jan. 29).
The core of this group includes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with his obsessive focus on “lethality,” border czar Tom Homan with his everything “is on the table” for immigrants and potential Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy, who mandates vaccines for his own children but won’t mandate them for other children.
Numerous physicians have called RFK Jr. “dangerous” and 77 Nobel Laureates recently said he has politicized science.
So it must be his early heroin criminality and his recent lust for contingency money from lawsuits that so attracts the eye of the president.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
It is obvious from the vitriol of The Post’s attacks on RFK, Jr. that no one at this paper has ever read any of Kennedy’s books.
The critics seem to believe being healthy requires taking endless amounts of pharmaceuticals drugs, that plastic in our food and water supply are wonderful and that toxic and addictive food is a treat, especially for children.
How sad.
Francis Rushford
Brooklyn
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