Former President Donald Trump's campaign has been throwing caution to the wind in recent days by allowing anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to publicly boast about plans to run the Department of Health and Human Services should Trump win next week.
The Bulwark's Andrew Egger believes that this could be a sign of dangerous hubris for a campaign that seems to believe it doesn't have to make any kind of pitch to non-MAGA voters in the closing days.
Although Kennedy has long been a loose cannon, Egger argues that "he’s made his brain worm contagious" and has infected Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of Trump’s transition team who told CNN on Wednesday that there were big plans to get some vaccines pulled from the market on Kennedy's advice.
"Keep in mind that Lutnick is supposed to be one of the grownups in the room," Egger comments.
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He then argues that this is part of a pattern of "breakdown of message discipline surrounding the Trump campaign" in recent days.
"RFK Jr.’s bragging comments about his forthcoming cabinet appointment were a major part of it," he contends. "But there was also Elon Musk, who’s been making inexplicably edgy predictions of serious economic turbulence in the opening months of a second Trump term.
"And House Speaker Mike Johnson, who this week crowbarred open a fresh debate about health care policy with comments to donors promising that Trump planned to 'go big' with 'massive reform' to the structure of Obamacare."
All of this leads Egger to conclude that Trump's team is "a campaign team that’s gotten hopelessly high on its own supply."
