Last night, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden discussed RFK Jr.’s upcoming confirmation hearing on MSNBC, saying that Democrats will bring “the receipts” on his dangerous anti-vaccine positions and the threat he would pose to Americans’ health care as Secretary of HHS. According to Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo, RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearing could take place during the last week of January.
For years, Kennedy has fueled disinformation and conspiracy theories about vaccinations that have had deadly consequences. He has been a leading anti-vaccine voice for decades, spreading false information about vaccines and autism that led to a full-blown measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, primarily infants and children. However, on his whirlwind media tour across Capitol Hill, he has claimed that he’s “never been anti-vaccine.” But we have the receipts:
Watch Protect Our Care’s video on RFK Jr.’s comments here.
- “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” [Lex Fridman Podcast #388, ‘Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning’, 7/6/23, VIDEO]
- “Our job is to resist and to talk about it to everybody…I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, ‘Better not get him vaccinated.’ And he heard that from me. If he hears it from 10 other people, maybe he won’t do it…” [The Way Forward with Alec Zeck, ‘HFfH: The State of Health Freedom with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’, 9/3/21, AUDIO]
- “I do believe that autism comes from vaccines.” [Fox News, ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’, 7/10/23, VIDEO]
- “They’re trying to get at your baby. And force him to take their vaccines. And give him a lifetime dependency.” [Speech, Texans for Vaccine Choice Rally in Austin, Texas, 5/4/19]
- “They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone. This is a holocaust, what this is doing to our country.” [Speech, ‘Trace Amounts’ Screening in Sacramento, California, 4/7/15]
- “The COVID shots are a crime against humanity.” [Robert F. Kennedy Jr., X, 12/12/22]
- “The digitalized economy? We get rid of cash and coins. We give you a chip. We put all your money in your chip. If you refuse a vaccine, we turn off the chip and you starve!” [RFK Jr., Instagram via Forbes, 8/15/20]
- “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” [The New York Post, 7/23/23]
- “[5G] causes cancer. It causes DNA dysfunction. It penetrates the blood-brain barrier. It’s making our children stupider and sicker.” [The Globe and Mail (Canada), 11/11/20]
- “I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health.” [The Joe Rogan Experience, ‘#1999 – Robert Kennedy, Jr.’ 6/15/23, AUDIO]
- “We’re going to give drug development and infectious disease a break. A little break, a little bit of a break for about eight years.” [TikTok Town Hall, 6/20/24, VIDEO]