{"id":126227,"date":"2024-11-15T19:18:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126227"},"modified":"2024-11-15T19:18:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T12:18:04","slug":"jake-tapper-reacts-to-trumps-rfk-jr-pick-to-lead-hhs-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126227","title":{"rendered":"Jake Tapper Reacts To Trump&#8217;s RFK Jr. Pick To Lead HHS Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs news broke that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/11\/rfk-jr-health-human-service-secretary-trump-1236177305\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236177305\">nominating Robert Kennedy Jr.<\/a> as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jake-tapper\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jake-tapper\" data-tag=\"jake-tapper\">Jake Tapper<\/a> gave blunt assessment of what\u2019s ahead: \u201cWell, America, I hope you like measles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKennedy, who waged a third-party presidential bid before endorsing Trump, has spent the better part of his recent career on a crusade against childhood vaccines, which have been an essential component of public health since World War II. Many studies have continued to show that autism is not linked to vaccines, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Kennedy would oversee the CDC, among other agencies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jake Tapper on Trump\u2019s pick of RFK Jr as Secretary of Health and Human Services: \u201cWell America, I hope you like measles\u201d. (Video: CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hVTeNGG4Ul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hVTeNGG4Ul<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Sington (@MikeSington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeSington\/status\/1857210044615422161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis is somebody, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been pushing quackery, who has been pushing lies, who has been pushing conspiracy theories,\u201d Tapper said to CNN\u2019s Dr. Sanjay Gupta at another point Thursday night on <em>The Lead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not often that the entire medical and public health community is going to be in lockstep on something, but they are pretty close on this in terms of their significant concerns, horror even,\u201d Gupta said. \u201cAs someone said to me today, \u2018I can\u2019t think of any individual who can be more damaging to public health than RFK.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGupta said that there were \u201cthese kernels of agreement\u201d that Kennedy had with the medical establishment on some of his other signature issues, like food supply. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThen there is these other things \u2026 they are not alternative views, they are false views,\u201d Gupta said, noting that the vaccine-autism link was the subject of massive study yet did not establish causation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKennedy did get some praise from Jared Polis, the Democratic governor of Colorado. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPolis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jaredpolis\/status\/1857173250586911189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote <\/a>on X, \u201cHe helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I\u2019m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPolis got some pushback for the comment \u2014 including by some who thought his account had been hacked \u2014 and the governor posted a follow-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe wrote, \u201cLest there by any doubt, I am vaccinated as is my family. I will hold any HHS Secretary to the same high standard of protecting and improving public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBack in August, Polis reacted to Kennedy\u2019s assertion in a Fox News interview that he wanted to leave \u201chealthy children\u201d as his legacy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPolis wrote then, \u201cNot sure how bringing back Measles and bringing back Polio makes anyone more healthy\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/11\/well-america-i-hope-you-like-measles-jake-tapper-reacts-to-donald-trumps-pick-of-rfk-jr-to-lead-health-and-human-services-1236177620\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As news broke that Donald Trump was nominating Robert Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper gave blunt assessment of what\u2019s ahead: \u201cWell, America, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126227\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}