Yesterday, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) pledged his support for RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, denying his long, documented history of opposing all vaccinations and spreading dangerous misinformation.
SHOT: Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) Recently Announced His Support For RFK Jr., Stating That He Is, “Not Anti-Vaccine.” After meeting with Kennedy, Sen. Cornyn posted, “Look[ing] forward to working with him, and I intend to support his nomination. Cornyn justified throwing his support behind Kennedy by ignoring his anti-vaccine views: “He told me he is not anti-vaccine, he is pro vaccine safety, which strikes me as a rational position to take
CHASER: In His Own Words: Eight RFK Jr. Quotes Showing He’s A Dangerous, Unhinged Anti-Vaxxer:
- “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]