(The hill) – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that former President Trump promised him “control” of public health agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, if he wins a second term next week a video viewed by The Hill.
“The key that…President Trump promised me is — “Control of the public health agencies, the HHS and its subagencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and several others, and then also the USDA, which is… the key to America’s health,” Kennedy said in the video. “Because we have to say goodbye to seed oils, and we have to say goodbye to pesticide-intensive agriculture.”
Kennedy suspended his own long-term presidential campaign in August and endorsed Trump. In his endorsement, Kennedy promised that if given “the chance to address the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production…within two years the burden of chronic disease will increase dramatically.”
Kennedy is now part of Trump’s transition team and has become a deputy in the election campaign. He told voters that the 45th president will “make America whole again.”
Kennedy, a long-time supplier of Anti-vaccine news The founder of the anti-vaccination group Children’s Health Defense has been speaking increasingly forcefully in recent months about children’s health and solving the problems of chronic childhood illnesses.
The independent Democrat has been lobbying Trump for a role in his potential next administration. HHS oversees 13 different agencies, and Kennedy has long argued that they are in dire need of reform.
Trump said he would install Kennedy on a blackboard that would “explore the decades-long increase in chronic health problems, including autoimmune diseases, autism, obesity, infertility and more.”
While an election campaign event Trump said Sunday in New York City that he would “go wild for food” and “go wild for drugs” over Kennedy if he wins in November.
The Trump campaign did not dispute that former President Kennedy had promised control. Trump has promised that Kennedy would play a role in his administration, but gave no specifics.
“No formal Cabinet and staffing decisions have been made, but President Trump has said he will work with passionate voices like RFK Jr. to make America fit again by providing families with protected food and ending the chronic disease epidemic, that is afflicting our children.” Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, said in a statement.
