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(NewsNation) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Republican nominee Donald Trump asked him to reorganize national wellness agencies similar the Food and Drug Administration oregon Centers for Disease Control and Prevention if helium wins the 2024 statesmanlike election.
"He's asked maine to cleanable up the corruption fig one," Kennedy said during a municipality hall Wednesday with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo. "Number two, extremity the conflicts of interest, instrumentality those agencies to their affluent contented of golden standard, empirically-based, evidence-based science, evidence-based medicine, and to extremity the chronic illness epidemic successful this country."
Kennedy ran arsenic an Independent successful the predetermination earlier dropping retired and endorsing Trump.
Trump said Sunday astatine a rally that helium would fto Kennedy "go wild" connected issues related to food, medicine and wellness if elected to different term. The event, which took spot astatine New York's Madison Square Garden, was widely criticized for racist and crude comments made by immoderate speakers.
Kennedy in the past has disseminated mendacious information astir wellness topics specified arsenic vaccines, and is known for spreading conspiracy theories arsenic well. Because of this, NewsNation spouse The Hill reports that aesculapian experts person raised concerns astir Kennedy’s imaginable power successful a aboriginal Trump administration.
Noting that immoderate radical telephone Kennedy an "extremist," Cuomo asked him astir those who accidental they are acrophobic astir what the erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner would bash erstwhile fixed the powerfulness of a authorities position.
"I'm not a doctor, I'm not a scientist," Kennedy answered, though added that he's written "five best-selling books connected nationalist health" and, arsenic a lawyer, "litigated connected wellness issues for 40 years."
What his occupation would beryllium successful the Trump administration, Kennedy said, is to code corruption, not enforce his idiosyncratic beliefs connected the American people.
"I've sued astir each of these agencies. I've sued FDA, CDC, NIH, FCC, USDA, astir each these agencies," Kennedy said. "When you litigate against these agencies, you get a PhD successful in successful firm seizure and however to unravel it."
