During a segment on CNN this Thursday, host Jake Tapper tore into Donald Trump and his plans to make RFK Jr. an important campaign surrogate.
Donald Trump's campaign for the presidency is quite controversial. And the reason for that is that he is willing to promote remarkably unqualified people for critical positions. The Republican has recently hinted that he would place conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the head of the country's medicine.
The topic has become more important in the last few days as Trump has talked about promoting Kennedy Jr. During a panel discussion about the potential damage the scion of one of the country's most famous political families. Tapper began the segment by saying:
"President Trump has promised me is as control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its subagencies, CDC, FDA and NIH and a few others, and also the USDA, which is which, you know, is key to making America healthy."
The host continued, “Just a reminder, RFK Jr has no medical license and has made wildly inaccurate claims about all sorts of medicines, including childhood vaccines. And frankly, this is what he said. It’s kind of a deranged remark about coronavirus."
Playing a clip, Tapper continued:
"In fact, Covid-19, there’s an argument that it is ethnically targeting Covid-19, that certain races, disproportionately Covid-19, is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.
“I mean, there aren’t even words to describe what hackery that is wildly inaccurate. Plenty of Chinese people, plenty of Ashkenazi Jews died because of the coronavirus. Actual medical professionals are sounding the alarm about RFK Jr playing any sort of role in health care within this country,