In a hard-fought argument, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his actions in office from Senator Ben Ray Luján. During his aggressive comments, Luján made baseless allegations about the credentials of Kennedy’s advisors.
Specifically, the controversy began over a study purportedly revealing autism’s cause and the role of David Guyer, a contractor Kennedy hired to dig into vaccine safety data. The Democrat alleged that Guyer was charged with practicing medicine without a license, which Kennedy countered by emphasizing that Guyer successfully sued the medical board.
Starting off the wild interaction, Sen Luján began, “You said that you’re soon going to release a study claiming to reveal the cause of autism…with the upcoming …meeting to justify taking vaccines from Americans. Now, as you know, autism affects millions of children, so I guess you’d have the nation’s top medical experts working on this. Mr. Kennedy, you hired a man named David Guyer to conduct this study. Is that correct?”
After RFK confirmed this, the Democrat went on a pedantic aside about whether Guyer was a government employee or a contractor. In any case, in a transparent attempt to prove a point, the senator claimed, “Did you know he never went to medical school?… Did you know that he got caught in Maryland and was charged with practicing medicine without a medical license?”
Bringing the receipts, RFK shut down the disrespectful New Mexico senator. He noted, “He was charged by a medical board. He sued the medical board, and the medical board was found to have acted in actual malice and was fined $2.6 million by a judge in Maryland for doing that.”
At the end of the clip, Luján pursued a snarky line of questioning. He said, “Let me ask. Maybe we’ll just get a good answer here. Mr. Secretary, will you commit to sharing the protocols used for the autism study with Congress and the public?” Annoyed, RFK answered, ” They are public.”
Still not done, the senator asked, “Will you commit to giving it to this committee by the
end of the week?” Annoyed, the HHS Secretary interjected, ” No, not because, not the way it works… We already have the public. We put out the Notice of Funding Opportunities.”
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Reacting to the bizarre treatment of RFK by many democrats, Vice President JD Vance took to social media to announce his feelings. He declared, “When I see all these senators trying to lecture and “gotcha” Bobby Kennedy today all I can think is: You all support off-label, untested, and irreversible hormonal “therapies” for children, mutilating our kids and enriching big pharma. You’re full of shit and everyone knows it.”
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Another prominent conservative wrote, “I’ve been listening to some of the clips of senators hysterically berating RFK. Total embarrassment. There was a brief ‘golden era’ for public health during COVID when the public could be cryscreamed into compliance. That’s over. Now, these hysterics just erode trust further.”
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