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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told supporters on Monday that if former President Donald Trump wins re-election, he will give him “control” of several public health agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He said he promised to give. November term.
Kennedy, who suspended his independent presidential campaign and endorsed Trump in August, said at a livestreamed organizing event that Trump would oversee the former president’s vast public health portfolio if he returned to the White House. He said he had told them, adding that he would give priority. His challenge was to “make America healthy.”
“The key, I think, is, you know, what President Trump promised me, is to take control of the public health agencies, HHS and its sub-agencies, the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, and several other agencies. The USDA, as you know, is also key to a healthy America, President Kennedy said, according to a video of the event obtained by CNN.
CNN has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
Trump previously told CNN he would consider appointing Kennedy to a potential second administration role. Following Mr. Kennedy’s endorsement in August, Mr. Trump pledged to include Mr. Kennedy on a committee investigating the rise in chronic disease diagnoses if he returned to the White House. Kennedy was a member of Trump’s transition team and has been campaigning on Trump’s behalf in key battleground states since withdrawing from the presidential race.
On Sunday, President Trump told a campaign rally in New York that if Kennedy wins in November, he intends to make him “crazy about food” and “crazy about medicine.”
Kennedy is one of the leading proponents of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories in the United States. He has centered his presidential campaign on false attacks on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and sharp criticism of public health and agricultural policy.
CNN’s Kate Sullivan contributed to this report.
