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Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday came out against Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, a role that would put him in charge of overseeing the country’s health care infrastructure in order to keep Americans healthy.
But Pence didn’t condemn the choice for the reasons you may think.
His critical statement mentioned nothing about Kennedy’s dangerous anti-vaccine views, which helped lead to a measles outbreak in American Samoa that led dozens of children to die of a preventable disease.
Nor did Pence slam Kennedy’s other insane positions, including the fact that he promotes the consumption of dangerous raw milk, which can lead to preventable foodborne illness; that he falsely linked antidepressants with mass shootings; that he falsely said chemicals in the country’s water are causing kids to be gay or transgender; that he wants to remove fluoride from America’s drinking water, which could lead to dental decay in children; that he believes the wild conspiracy that 5G wireless is being used to “control our behavior”; and that he pushed ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as COVID treatments, even though they were found to be useless.
Instead, Pence is against Kennedy because Kennedy isn’t sufficiently anti-abortion enough for Pence’s liking.
