Caroline Kennedy warns senators that cousin RFK Jr. is a ‘predator’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “predator” who’s hooked on energy, Caroline Kennedy urged the U.S. Senate in a Tuesday letter to reject the nomination of her cousin to be President Donald Trump’s well being secretary.

In a letter to Senators, Ms. Kennedy, who beforehand served as a U.S. ambassador to Australia and Japan and is the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, etched a damning sketch of her cousin, the newest condemnation Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has acquired from members of his personal, distinguished Democratic household.

A number of denounced her cousin’s bid for the presidency final yr. The letter, obtained by The Related Press, was first reported by The Washington Put up.

Ms. Kennedy mentioned within the letter that her cousin’s views on vaccines are disqualifying. She provided senators private particulars from their lives rising up collectively that she mentioned pose a good better concern.

She described her cousin’s basement, storage and dorm as being an epicenter for drug use, the place he would additionally put child chickens and mice in blenders to feed to his hawks.

“It was usually a perverse scene of despair and violence,” she wrote. She additionally learn the letter in a video recording, sharing it on social media. Makes an attempt to succeed in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for remark weren’t instantly profitable.

He has brazenly talked about his heroin use and he pleaded responsible for bringing it on an airplane in 1984.

Kennedy now “preys on the desperation of oldsters of sick kids,” she instructed senators, noting that he has vaccinated his personal kids whereas discouraging others from vaccinating theirs.

She additionally identified that Kennedy plans to nonetheless revenue off a lawsuit towards pharmaceutical firm Merck over Gardasil, its human papillomavirus vaccine that forestalls cervical most cancers. Final yr, he remodeled $850,000 from the association.

“In different phrases, he’s prepared to complement himself by denying entry to a vaccine that may stop nearly all types of cervical most cancers and which has been safely administered to tens of millions of girls and boys,” she wrote. She had beforehand not spoken about his candidacy or nomination for well being secretary.

Her father was assassinated in 1963 when she was a younger woman. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s father, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968 throughout his presidential marketing campaign occasion.

“In contrast to Bobby, I strive to not communicate for my father – however I’m sure that he and my uncle Bobby, who gave their lives in public providers, and my uncle Teddy, who devoted his Senate profession to bettering well being care, can be disgusted,” Ms. Kennedy wrote.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will seem earlier than the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday in his bid to turn out to be Trump’s well being secretary. One other listening to for his nomination will likely be held on Wednesday in entrance of the Senate Well being, Schooling, Labor and Pension committee, the panel his uncle, Ted Kennedy, as soon as chaired.

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