CNN Kaitlan Collins rips RFK Jr. 'lies' after Trump HHS Pick

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins the president-elect torn apart Donald Trump’s selection by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services with a series of damaging clips.

Trump is making headlines this week with cabinet choices that are causing outrage. The selection of former Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to become Trump’s attorney general was fulfilled of almost universal shock Wednesday. Trump has picked Fox News host Piet Hegseth lead the Ministry of Defense and former representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) as his nominee for Director of National Intelligence.

But he wasn’t done yet. On Thursday evening, Trump made good on a campaign promise by calling RFK Jr. to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs Go wild on health – or rather, HHS.

On Sunday evening edition from CNN The Source with Kaitlan CollinsCollins opened her show by telling viewers that mentioning RFK Jr. a vaccine skeptic is ‘really putting it lightly’ – and provided that video evidence in support of her criticism:

KAITLAN COLLINS: Moments ago, President-elect Donald Trump just wrapped up his remarks, speaking at his Mar-a-Lago Club, where the room is filled with some of the people he just appointed to his new Cabinet, including One of his latest and most controversial picks is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom Trump has chosen as the nation’s health secretary despite the fact that the vaccine skeptic has no medical degree or public health experience.

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DONALD TRUMP: Today I nominated him for, I think, if you like health and if you like people living long, that’s the most important position. RFK Jr.

And I just watched the news reports. People like you, Bobby. Don’t get too popular, Bobby. Don’t. (LAUGHTER)

TRUMP: You know, you’ve reached about this level now. We want you to come up with things and ideas that you’ve been talking about for a long time.

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COLLINS: With that choice, Trump eliminates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the sprawling Department of Health and Human Services.

If confirmed by the Senate, and that’s still a question tonight, Kennedy would oversee agencies like the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, the CDC, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the operations of the Affordable Care Act , which provides health care for millions of Americans, to name just a few of the responsibilities he would have.

And when you say that RFK Jr. is a vaccine skeptic, that is putting it very lightly. He has on many occasions advanced conspiracy theories and lied about science.

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ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., TRUMP’S HEALTH SECRETARY PICK: Small, infinitesimal amounts of merchandise – mercury, parts per billion, will cause serious neurological damage in children. It comes from our own vaccine.

COVID-19 is intended to attack white and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.

The ability of these chemicals that we are now raining down on our children to cause these very profound sexual changes in them is something that we need to think about as a society.

Even in Hitler’s Germany you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did.

Today, the mechanisms are being put in place to ensure that none of us can run and none of us can hide. They use 5G to collect our data and monitor our behavior.

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COLLINS: Needless to say, that’s not true.

But to tell you how we got here tonight. RFK Jr. had, of course, been fighting his own presidential race. He later dropped out to help pave Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes, and later formed a close relationship with the Republican candidate, who during the campaign promised to let Kennedy loose on health policy if he won. Now Kennedy could get that chance.

Just a few days ago we heard from RFK that massive layoffs were being threatened at the FDA. He posted that “the FDA’s war on public health is about to end… Save your data and… Pack your bags,” he said.

Tonight he struck a slightly different tone, saying, “I look forward to working with the more than 80,000 employees of HHS to free the agencies… so they can pursue their mission of making Americans the healthiest people on earth once again.” to make. .”