In the middle of what was described as “The worst hearing performance I have ever seen," according to The Bulwark’s Sam Stein, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stepped in it by accusing Donald Trump of mass murder.
Discussing Health and Human Services Secretary’s combative, fact-challenged and at times contradictory testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Kennedy was tripped up when asked about Trump’s crowning achievement in his first term: Operation Warp Speed, which rushed the Covid vaccine to Americans in the midst of the pandemic.
According to “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough, who called the hearing a “bipartisan drubbing” as Republicans joined with Democrats and harshly grilled the Trump appointee, Kennedy did himself no favors with his boss.
After watching a clip of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) putting Kennedy on the spot about the Covid-19 vaccine, Scarborough weighed in with, “I mean, it's so bizarre. I mean, there's so many things that he said that just weren't true. I mean, so many things that he contradicted himself in not only in the hearing but also through the years.”
“He said Donald Trump, as many people said yesterday, deserved a Nobel prize for Operation Warp Speed, said he agreed with that under pressure from Republicans,” he continued. “But he's also said that more people died from Donald Trump's vaccine than died from covid itself and that's a hell of a death toll to be placing on your boss.”
It should be noted that researchers believe there were in excess of 1.2 million covid-related deaths in the U.S. alone.
“But that's what RFK Jr. did yesterday,” he added. “ It’s just –– I've never, I really have never seen anything like it on Capitol Hill. It was a bipartisan grilling and the only question is why does Donald Trump continue to have somebody, the Department of HHS, that is just determined to destroy one of his greatest legacies as president of the United States, and a legacy that republicans and democrats agree is a remarkable legacy. And that's Operation Warp Speed and the creation of a covid vaccine that some of the best scientists and doctors said might never be created.”
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