Voters Deem RFK Jr Bankrupt of Credibility: Public Health Project Newsletter

Trump Press Secretary Katie Zacharia lasted only five days under the weight of her serious credibility issues. Meanwhile, RFK Jr remains a darling of Donald Trump’s despite a new Axios-Ipsos poll ironically finding only 1 in 4 people trust any health information from the U.S. health secretary, while even fewer voters believe his policies made the country healthier.

Is Kennedy making any effort to win back public trust? Of course not. He’s onto his next schemes to manufacture misinformation against vaccines in the middle of a deadly measles crisis, which now exceeds 4,000 cases, with 6 dead.

RFK Jr’s Deadly Anti-Vax Agenda Infecting Other Department’s Decision Making: Politico reports Secretary Kennedy’s “anti-vaccine views were a major factor in shelving an Agriculture Department avian flu response plan … USDA gave conditional approval for a vaccine as egg prices spiked last year, but Kennedy publicly disavowed the idea of inoculating birds and instead proposed letting the virus “run through” the national flock.” Never mind the dozens of human cases of A(H5) bird flu reported since February 2024.

Susan Collins Likes What She Sees: Regrets over voting to confirm RFK Jr, Senator Collins has none despite week after week of controversy, corruption, and public health crises made worse by his contempt of science.

Corruption Watch: The Washington Post obtained the secret list of major donors to Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, including $7.5 million from Big Tobacco interests. We noted these generous contributions came as Trump has been pushing his FDA help get harmful fruit flavored vapes into the hands of children and cultivate the next generation of nicotine addicts – a boon for industry profits and Trump’s own stock portfolio.

Trump FDA Pick Even More Anti-Vax Than She Let On to Senators: Heidi Overton’s known anti-vax record was disqualifying enough. Now Semafor reveals Trump’s nominee to the lead the FDA “played a larger role in driving the process to” roll back the CDC’s child vaccine schedule. What say Senate HELP Chairman Bill Cassidy who keeps condemning the anti-vax views of Trump nominees and then votes for them anyway.

Womanizers Gotta Look Out for Each Other: Politico reports RFK Jr. is proudly “standing by Russell Brand as the actor goes on trial in London on multiple charges of rape and sexual assault involving six women.” Kennedy just can’t quit his partner in the MAHA grift even after cracking jokes about his rape charges at the anti-vax convention they did together.

Quote of the Week: Reporter to RFK Jr.: “Mr. Secretary, do you believe that five deaths, potentially six, from measles in the state of Pennsylvania…” // Staffer: “We’re also not going to talk about measles.” Reporter: “He’s the highest-ranking health official in the country. He can answer that question. He’s a Cabinet secretary.”

Ribeye For Me, Not For Thee: Multi-millionaire RFK Jr. says: “People can go to the grocery store and not get the ribeye to save money.” // Q: “Do you have a favorite cut of steak?” // RFK Jr: “If I had to choose a favorite, it’s a ribeye.” As we’ve been saying all along, Kennedy’s food rhetoric is all sizzle and no steak.

Bald Faced Lie of the Week: RFK Jr. “We’re not cutting people from Medicaid or Medicare or Obamacare or medical coverage.” That’s certainly news to 8 million people going on 15 million.

Uplifting News of the Week: The Instagram account of Children’s Health Defense – the #1 anti-vax misinformation group in the nation founded by RFK Jr – has been suspended.

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