Trump Nominates Anti-Vaxxer RFK Jr. As Health Secretary

Days before the election, Donald Trump’s transition team co-chair Howard Lutnick was asked on CNN if there was a possibility that vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would serve as the Health and Human Services secretary if Trump were elected. “No,” Lutnick said. “Of course not.”

But in the week after the election — following several nominations that seemed extreme to many lawmakers in Trump’s own party — the president-elect announced on Thursday that Kennedy would be his nominee for HHS. “The Safety and Health of all........

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