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During the first round of the Senate confirmation sessions on Wednesday, Robert F Kennedy Junior, the choice of President Donald Trump to the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, appeared, unlike the past.
The legislators of the Senate Financial Committee disturbed Kennedy on his previous positions and comments on topics ranging from abortion to vaccines to fire in schools.
Kennedy, who sometimes appeared, was constantly playing with the controversial things he said previously in podcasts, conferences or television interviews, although Senators transferred him directly.
On several occasions, legislators asked Kennedy to win his previous health stances in its potential HHS. Every time, he said that his statements were worse or that he had never made these statements.
Here are six examples:
1. Kennedy refuted the allegations as a “anti -vaccine” that ignores years of activity
Describing the appearance of Kennedy on the 2023 podcast, Senator Ron Widan said that Kennedy was interrogating the safety of the vaccine and said: “There is no safe and effective vaccine.”
Kennedy said that the comment was “part of” a larger conversation with the Bodcast Lexi Friedman, where Friedman asked him to name “any vaccines you think is good.” Kennedy said that Friedman boycotted him before he could stir a more accurate point.
In that interview, Kennedy said: “I think some of the living virus vaccines may avoid more problems than they cause. There is no vaccine, as you know, safe and effective.”
Kennedy also said during the session that he is not hostile to the meeting, but “a supporter of safety.”
He has long argued that vaccines caused autism, despite many studies that contradict this. Kennedy also said, falsely, that childhood vaccines are not a safety test.
In 2018, Kennedy founded the defense of children’s health, a legal advocacy group that sought stories about “injured” children by toxins and environmental vaccines. This organization has supported and submitted lawsuits to challenge vaccination requirements, among other cases.
2. The changing abortion position of Kennedy
Many Senators said that Kennedy has turned against his position on abortion.
“A year and a half ago, I went to New Hampshire … and talked about (how the government should not tell the woman what she could do with her body. This is her choice,” Senator Bernie Sanders said. When Trump asked you to become a HHS secretary. “
Kennedy replied: “I think, and I always thought that every abortion is a tragedy.”
Kennedy’s position has turned abortion over the years.
In an interview with WMUR in New Hampshire in New Hampshire, Kennedy described himself as a “supportive option” and said he believed that “the worst solution is whether the government is involved in the decisions that should belong to a woman.”
In August 2023, Kennedy said in another interview that he would support the ban of federal abortion after 15 weeks or 21 weeks of pregnancy. The statement walked after hours because he said he was “misunderstood” the question.
He gave contradictory answers again in May 2024. During an interview with PodCaster Steee, a former ESPN host, Kennedy said he opposes any governmental restrictions on abortion “even if it was a full period.” Hours later, Kennedy walked this statement, too, wrote on X that “miscarriage should be legally up to a certain number of weeks, and then restricted.”
Since May 2024, Kennedy said he supports abortion until the fetus (which is usually about 24 weeks of pregnancy) and changed his position because he was “ready to listen.”
During his hearing, Kennedy said that countries should control abortion, reflecting Trump’s view.
3. Kennedy compared the center of the center of diseases control of Nazi death camps
Senator Rafael Warrnok said Kennedy previously compared the American centers to combat and prevent diseases (CDC) to Nazi death camps.
“Do you stand by the phrases that I have made in the past, or do you back down from these previous phrases?” Warrok request.
Kennedy said, “Senator, I don’t think I have ever compared the center of diseases control and Nazi death camps,” Kennedy said.
“I never said,” Kennedy added.
During a 2013 autism conference, Kennedy compared the childhood vaccine program at the Holocaust Disease Control Center. He was asked why the Center for Disease Control was not recognized by autism. “For me, this is like Nazi death camps, what happened to these children,” Kennedy said about the high number of children with autism. “I can’t tell you why someone does something like this. I can’t tell you why the ordinary Germans shared the Holocaust.”
Warroc also said that Kennedy compared the center of diseases control with sexual aggressors in the Catholic Church.
At the 2019 conference, Kennedy claimed that CDC HID is harmful to children’s vaccination programs and compared this while covering up sexual assault on children in the Catholic Church.
“The institution, CDC and the vaccine program are more important than children who are supposed to protect,” Kennedy said, according to NBC News reports. “This is the same reason for the children’s scandal in the Catholic Church, because people were able to persuade themselves that the institution, the church, was more important than these boys and young girls who were raped.”
4. Kennedy said “tremendous circumstantial evidence” linking fire to schools with antidepressants
Senator Tina Smith told Minnesota that Kennedy blamed the shooting of schools for antidepressants, “and he asked if he still believed it.
Kennedy replied: “I don’t think anyone can answer this question, and I did not answer this question,” on the pretext that his previous notes have worsened. He said that what he intended is that any possible connection between antidepressants and shooting in schools “must be studied, along with the other potential perpetrators.”
This is not the way he formulated in the 2023 live broadcast with the owner of X Elon Musk.
Kennedy claimed that there is “tremendous circumstantial evidence” that medications contributed to the shooting of schools. Certified with selective serotonin absorption inhibitors (SSRIS), which is a category of antidepressants and benzodiazepines, and medications are often used to treat anxiety. He said that there were no good studies on the role of psychological drugs in school launches and that he had been studied “years ago.”
Politifact experts told Politifact that there is no causal relationship between antidepressants and fire. About 13 percent of adult population uses antidepressants, and experts say if there is a link, they expect to increase the rates of violence. Studies on shooting at American schools show that most of the strikers have not used psychiatry, which have an anti -player effect.
5. Kennedy said that pesticide pesticides in water supply contribute to “sexual dyslexia” in children
Senator Michael Bennett, Colorado, Kennedy asked: “Have you said that exposure to pesticides makes children sexually converted?”
Kennedy replied, “No, I never said it.”
Kennedy did not use these exact words in the Bodcast 2023 interview, but he said: “I think many of the problems we see in children, especially children, may be unknown how much this comes from chemical exposure, including many sexual impaired defects We see him.
“Sexual movement defect” is not a medical term. Difficulty is the experience of distress that can occur when a person’s sexual identity does not match her gender, and is common in transgender people.
Kennedy said in 2023 that a study found that exposure to Tarazine herbal pesticides in water caused the development of some male frogs of female sexual organs and become infertility.
Herbal pesticide is commonly used in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency organizes the permitted amount of drinking water and evaluating the potential risks of environmental and human health.
There are important biological differences between humans and frogs, and no scientific studies in humans have been associated with exposure to tartarin. Atrazine, in some studies, has been linked to the disadvantages of cths and other reproductive health problems.
6. Kennedy falsely claimed that Covid-19 was aiming to attack the “Caucasus and Black”
Bennett also asked Kennedy if he once said that Kovid 19 was “a genetic, genetic, genetic weapon targeting black and eggs, but he did not save the Jews from Ashkenaz and the Chinese people.” (Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of the Jewish people who lived in Central or Eastern Europe.) Kennedy said that he “did not say that he was intentional.”
During his talk about vital weapons at the July 2023 dinner in New York City, Kennedy said: “There is an argument that it is targeted.
Politifact classified this allegation as a liar. Although there is still a discussion about the assets of Covid-19, there is no evidence that he was a deliberate ethnic registrar designed to spare or target some races or races.
Most of the variations in Covid-19 infection and death stems from social, economic and health inequality.
