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In the confirmation of Wednesday, the Democratic Senator confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for comments on controversy that he had gone in the past. And over and over again, President Donald Trump’s candidate, Ministry of Health and Welfare, said he was not convinced that he had said that or he was not convinced.
So CNN reviewed his comments in context -listening to his interview with his interview and listening to one of his books. Kennedy found at least one case where the denial on Wednesday was accurate, but did some comments that he refused or claimed that he did not remember whether he made it.
See the six exchanges that Kennedy had with the members of the Senate Finance Committee.
Senator Michael Bennett in Colorado said to Kennedy, “I asked me (quote) if I wrote it in your book. Yes, no, Kennedy?”
Kennedy replied, “I don’t understand.”
First fact: Kennedy wrote it in a 2021 book.
The sentence quoted by Benet has appeared in Kennedy’s book called “The Real Anthony Fauci”. Kennedy is based on the fact that the number of people diagnosed with AIDS in Africa was incorporated to enrich the people who earn money to help the organization fight illness on the continent. It was part of the conspiracy section.
The book reveals that Kennedy did not claim that the sick science itself was different among Westerners among Africans. Rather, he claimed that it was different from statistics on the population statistics of AIDS with African AIDS (for example, most of the Africans who were diagnosed with illness). Population statistics of people with AIDS in western countries.
Georgia’s Senator Rafael Warnock said that Kennedy compared the work of the US Disease Control Prevention Center in the “Nazi Death Camp.”
Kennedy said, “I don’t think CDC has compared CDC with the Nazi death camp. I support CDC.” Warnock asked if he had withdrawn his statement. Kennedy said, “I have not withdrawn it. I never said it.” Then Kennedy reads out a quote using the word “Nazi Death Camp”. Is described as follows. I compared the injury rate with other atrocities with the children. And, of course, I don’t compare the CDC and the Nazi death camp. ”
First: Kennedy compared CDC with the Nazi death camp. In 2013, he linked the vaccine to the child’s autism.
At a 2013 meeting for the parent of autism, the audience asked Kennedy about CDC and autism (some of the low quality records in the event cannot be heard). In his response, Kennedy talked about CDCs that refused past offers from the Vaccine industry and deleted harmful materials from the vaccine.
Kennedy said, “I can’t say why they did it,” but he is involved in an institutional “vortex” that people go to extreme, and simply decide to “protect himself.” I saw that. Then he said, “For me, this is like a Nazi death camp.”
Then he asked, “What happened to these children?” We quote the illness of the boy’s autism. After a while, he returned to the comparison with the CDC’s assumed decision on the Nazi and the vaccine and said, “I don’t know why someone does that. I don’t know why ordinary Germans participated in the Holocaust. yeah.”
Pesticide and transgender children
Bennett asked Kennedy, “Did you say that if you are exposed to pesticides, the children will be transgender?”
Kennedy replied, “No, I never said it.”
First: Kennedy has not clearly declared that “exposure to pesticides can cause children to become transgender”, but he uses a slight different language to promote the unfounded conspiracy theory. did. As reported by CNN’s Kfile in 2023, Kennedy has a history of advertising the unfounded ideas that artificial chemicals in the environment, such as herbicides, can make children transgender and gay. have.
To quote one example, Kennedy talked in an interview in 2023 about how to “chemically castrate and feminide”. He did not provide evidence and said, “If you are doing it on a frog, you have many other evidence. It is done by humans.”
He also states in an interview as follows. “I’m looking.” Gender discomfort (not “sexual discomfort”) is often experienced by transgender people, but the psychology that feels that there is a difference between gender assigned at birth and gender identity. It is a painful pain.
Spokesman, who failed Kennedy’s 2024 presidential election, told CNN in 2023: Kennedy’s remarks are misunderstood. He does not claim that endocrine rampant substances are the only or main causes of gender discomfort. He simply suggests that this possibility is worth further research, given the abundant research on other vertebrates. ”
Antidepressants and school shooting
Senator Tina Smith in Minnesota said, “In an interview in 2023, in an interview in 2024, he accused him of shooting at schools related to antidepressants. You said, and this is a quote. Do you believe that the antidepressants have actually happened, as you have said?
Kennedy said, “I don’t think anyone can answer that question. I didn’t answer that question. I should be studied with other potential culprit in mentioning” social media “. I said that.
First, Kennedy is further advanced than simply saying, “You should be studied with other potential criminals.” He has repeatedly called on more research on links between antidepressants, including the 2023 interview that Smith quoted here, and the possibility of linking the school shooting, but he is again. We have lent the support to the unfounded concept of actually having a link.
For example, in an open conversation with the Technology Billion Elderly Ellon Musk in 2023, Kennedy asked for an additional research on “the role of psychiatric drugs in these events”, but then “” “” “” SSRIS, Benzos, and other medicines are doing this.
Smith says to Kennedy: Is that what you believe? ”
Kennedy replied, “No, of course, no one should be forced to do something.”
Smith said, “No, but you said they should be sent.”
Kennedy said, “I said they should be used. I didn’t say they should be sent.”
Cutting: Kennedy was right here. He did not say that the Americans taking legal mental health drugs “should be sent” to the “Wellness Farm” created.
Rather, in an interview in 2024, he suggested that he could use such a rural rehabilitation center to treat people who were convicted of drug crime, and then treat depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. People who are trying to leave the legal drugs used in (ADHD) can spontaneously go to the center, “If they want it.”
Vaccine safety and effectiveness
Oregon’s Senator Ron Widen has denied that he is now an anti -vaccine, but in the 2023 podcast, “vaccines are not safe and not effective.”
Kennedy responded with Widen’s claim that he was “repeatedly revealed.”
Kennedy said, “The statement I made in” Rex Fridman Podcast “was a fragment of the statement. He asked me -and anyone who actually went and saw the podcast would see this -he asked me, “Is there a safe and effective vaccine?” I told him, “Some of the living viral vaccines are so,” and I said, “There is no safe and effective vaccine,” and for everyone I continued. ” All drugs are sensitive to them, including vaccines. He stopped me at that point. ”
Kennedy added as follows. “I have corrected it many times, including television nationwide.”
First, the claim that Kennedy said that “vaccine is safe and not effective” is not true. As Kennedy even acknowledged in this answer, he said in an interview with Fridman in 2023, “There is no safe and effective vaccine you know.” Before the comment to Fridman, he said, “I think some of the living virus vaccines probably avoid more problems than they are causing.”
It is impossible to check Kennedy’s claim on Wednesday. He would have made a more subtle claim about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine if Fridman did not stop him. However, a video review indicates that Kennedy ended his sentence before Fridman intervened. Kennedy continued the word “actually …”.
Interview with Kennedy’s Fridman went on more than 30 minutes after this exchange. Kennedy did not add the nuances he wanted to do now. Kennedy commented to Fridman immediately after the exchange, he criticized polio vaccines.
