Posted on 05/12/2023 6:26:41 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that he wanted to “burn” the National Institutes of Health “to the ground,” according to a new interview with the Democratic presidential candidate.
In a May 9 conversation with actor Russell Brand, Kennedy said that DeSantis invited him to breakfast during the COVID pandemic, to discuss what Kennedy described as his “science-based response” to the crisis.
“We talked about him possibly running for the presidency, and I said, how will you handle the NIH?” Kennedy told Brand, whose talk show has more than 1.1 million subscribers on the YouTube alternative Rumble. “And he said: ‘I'll burn it to the ground.’ You know, I understand the impulse. But I think I can have a more surgical impact on these agencies.”
Kennedy, who did not respond to a request for comment by press time, did not say when the meeting was. A spokesman for DeSantis declined to comment. In February, the Florida governor told Fox News host Mark Levin that he “would have respected” the NIH and Centers for Disease Control before the pandemic, but became convinced that they were interested in control, not health.
“If you look at like all these entrenched bureaucrats, CDC, NIH, FDA — they need to be cleaned out because they totally failed and they are not advocating for the best interests of the people of this country,” DeSantis told Levin.
Kennedy has been questioning the wisdom of public health experts since 2005, when he published a Rolling Stone feature speculating on a long-since-debunked link between vaccines and autism.
The respect he’s earned from Republicans is more recent, bolstered by his accessibility — he’s done hours of interviews with conservative hosts — and his skeptical treatment from a media that conservatives don’t trust.
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More reason they won’t like DeSantis.0l
Amputation is a form of surgery.
That works.
Ronald Herbert Walker DeSantis will say whatever he thinks you want to hear.
Close HUD HHS EPA DOE too while you’re at it.
I have a few millennial friends who listen to Russell Brand religiously.
For the most part he gets it.
EVERY agency created in the late ‘60s and ‘70s basically to placate rioting hippies (you know, the ones whose indoctrinated kids and grandkids are rioting at the moment) should be shut down pronto.
Love it .
That Scared trump cultist .
Good news for FL is bad news for Trumpies ?
Odd ,Desantis is the Blue Collar self made man .
Trump is a rich kid whose Daddy gave them everything just like the Bush Boys ?
Now do Neil Oliver.
He’s Tokyo Rove’s boy. They have groomed him all the way up, just like Bill Ayers groomed Barky.
But I'm told DeSantis is establishment approved...🤔
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“a National Institutes of Health study on the benefits and consequences of”
Lol. Rove worked for Trump in the 2020 election.
You're too dumb the irony of what you just said, aren't ya?
to see
“All uf youse Guys is nutz!” Is the only clear message here.
Trump turned over the country to the two Demonrats NIH crazies .
He put Dr Fauci and Scarf Lady as co presidents and then promoted my beautiful untested non fda approved vaccine.
i His actions caused a huge mess .< Desantis was over the target .
Trump let the NIH take over and create a nightmare .
Brand has more than 6 million on You tube
Whatever. He’s going nowhere, unless he wants to be another Ross Perot and hand a second term over to FJB.
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