In August Robert F Kennedy Jr quit his independent campaign for the presidency to support Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump has selected Robert F Kennedy Jr, an environmental lawyer turned anti-vaccination activist as head of Health and Human Services (HHS). The man who suspended his bid for the independent presidency in August and backed Trump says he will focus on combating chronic illnesses. Its OK to say that on some issues he is quite unique among previous HHS leaders, especially vaccines. Mr Kennedy travels in anti-vaccine mandate circles often.
These agencies will be returned to gold standard scientific research and beacons of transparency by Kennedy, in order to stop chronic disease and Make America Great and Healthy Again! Trump said.
Who is Robert F Kennedy Jr?
Robert F Kennedy jr. was born on January 17 1954 in Washington D.C. He is the third born in a family of ten children to Robert F Kennedy the former Us Attorney General and Ethel Skakel Kennedy and grandson to former President of USA John F Kennedy. His father and uncle were both murdered during the 1960s.
He completed his education from the prestigious Harvard University, but he was equally a part of the London School of Economics and was awarded law degree from the University of Virginia. He also earned a Master of Laws in environmental law from the Pace University School of Law Graduate program where he Founded and directed ELI at the Law School and concurrently he taught Environmental Law for over three decades.
In the 1980s, Mr Kennedy established the Waterkeeper Alliance: an environmentalist Non Governmental Organisation, which he served as the chairman, and the attorney. For his efforts to clean up New York’s Hudson River, as well as the formation of over 300 similar groups around the globe, Riverkeeper justifiably earned him the nickname of “Hero for the Planet” from TIME Magazine. He also was responsible for the New York City watershed agreement, which is seen today as best practice of sustainable development.
Mr Kennedy established Children’s Health Defense to advance their health problems and toxic introductions – as chairman and lead counsel. At the same time, he has been promoting misinformation on everything from mandatory vaccination to vaccine-induced autism and racially targeted COVID-19 shots. It was not only during the Covid-19 pandemic that Mr Kennedy started spearheading campaigns against vaccines and working with anti-vaccine organizations.
His organisation has also offered defamation claims against some media houses for what he alleges as bias against anti-vaccine position. Research which looks at the spread of misinformation found that his Twitter account was heavily used to spread the misinformation on vaccines. Kennedy has also dined with anti vaccine activists and distributed anti vaccine pamphlets had, despite scientific evidenced that vaccines are safe and are necessary to prevent the spread of diseases.
Some victories in Mr Kennedy’s court include; Product contamination litigation against Monsanto in 2018 and DuPont in 2019 the latter forming the basis of the Dark Waters film. He has also adopted Indigenous people from North and South America.
Kennedy is a two-time New York Times best-selling author whose works include the books; Crimes Against Nature (2005) and The Real Anthony Fauci (2021). He has also written children related books on American history and Saint Francis of Assisi.
Robert F Kennedy Jr is married to Cheryl Hines, a Hollywood actress and, together they have seven children, though Kennedy Jr has been married twice before.