Leaked video: Trump caught trying to recruit RFK Jr. by echoing his vaccine conspiracy theories

A leaked video shows a phone conversation between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump in which the Republican candidate expressed shared concerns about vaccines.

RFK Jr.’s son posted and then deleted the video in which Trump appears to repeat his past claims that childhood vaccines can be dangerous to babies, a belief that, in addition to being false, plays directly into RFK Jr.’s conspiracy theory that such vaccines can lead to autism, Axios reported.

Trump told Kennedy he would “love” for him to “do something” with his campaign because “it would be so good for you and so important to you.”

“There’s something wrong with this whole system. And it’s the doctors, as you can see,” Trump told Kennedy about vaccines.

Expressing concern specifically about infants, Trump continued: “When you give a baby, Bobby, a vaccine that has 38 different vaccines in it, and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a 10- or 20-pound baby.”

He added: “And then you see the baby start to change dramatically all of a sudden. I’ve seen it too many times. And then you hear it has no impact.”

Trump met with Kennedy on Monday, just days after his assassination attempt, to drum up support for the independent candidate, Politico reported, though Kennedy’s campaign denied he would drop out of the race.

“We’re going to win,” Trump told the independent presidential candidate in the phone call.

After the video was made public, RFK Jr. reached out to X to apologize to the former president.

“When President Trump called me, I was recording with an in-house videographer,” he wrote. “I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was released. I apologize to the President.”