Latching onto RFK Jr. is Donald Trump’s way of edging back into the news cycle after weeks of being sidelined by the Democrats. Never mind that Kennedy is a fringe player whose polls cratered before he allegedly traded his endorsement for a Cabinet post should Trump win.

Now Trump has put him on his transition team “to help pick the people who will be running the government,” Kennedy said in an interview posted on X. He joins another presidential wannabe, former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, as honorary co-chairs.

These odd bedfellows go back to at least 2016 when, according to RFK Jr., Trump promised to create a “vaccine commission” to study the safety and efficacy of vaccines and appoint him as the chair. This was long before COVID-19 when the animating concern was the link between childhood vaccines and autism, which has since been debunked while remaining core to anti-vaxxers like Kennedy.

At the Friday rally celebrating RFK Jr.’s endorsement, the Kennedy sibling (he’s one of 11) led the crowd in a MAGA-style chant to “Make America Healthy Again” while Trump, a lover of fast food, looked on at what he’d created. Trump’s right-wing populism doesn’t align with Kennedy’s left-wing suspicion of corporate power, but Trump is so enamored of his new sycophant’s storied name and faux celebrity that there is talk of putting him on the........

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