RFK JR

NBC News - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has a dark view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which sits under HHS. In 2019, he called the federal agency’s vaccine division a fascist enterprise and accused it of knowingly hurting children. He also compared what he saw as a widespread conspiracy to hide harms from the child vaccination program to the cover-up of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Kennedy made the remarks and others — most previously unreported — over years of appearances at AutismOne, a parent-run autism conference. The comments, dating back to 2013, include claims that the CDC is a “cesspool of corruption,” filled with profiteers, harming children in a way he also likened to “Nazi death camps.”