Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. president Donald Trump attend an election event hosted by conservative group Turning Point USA on October 23, 2024 in Duluth, Georgia, USA.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t just want to be at the top. health care He wants your suggestions for more than 4,000 positions that President-elect Donald Trump will appoint across the U.S. government to advance his ranks within the Trump administration.
President Kennedy’s website Make America Healthy is soliciting nominations for “future Trump administration-wide” appointees and allows users to “read, comment, and vote” on them.
page titled “Candidates for the People”!” is “President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. want your help in nominating people of integrity and courage.”
Appointee categories include “Government Efficiency,” “Economy,” “America’s Health,” “Peace at Home,” “Peace Abroad,” “Food and Agriculture,” “Technology,” “Labor,” ” Includes “Education” and “Energy”. And infrastructure. ”
A spokesperson for Trump’s transition team asked CNBC whether the president-elect endorsed Kennedy’s initiative and whether the team would consider addressing websites in future administration staffing. , did not immediately respond.
A spokeswoman for President Kennedy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, ran for president as an independent, but in August he suspended his campaign and endorsed Trump. At a rally in New York in October, the president-elect said that if he won the election, he would allow Kennedy to “run wild health-wise.”
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces the future of his campaign on August 23, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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Kennedy is the most recommended person on his site in the “America’s Health” category, receiving more than 3,200 votes. He was followed in terms of votes by Dr. Charlie Feigenholtzhis website states that he is a “holistic physician trained in chiropractic, frequency and functional medicine.” sherry tenpennyan osteopathic doctor who told Ohio lawmakers that the Covid-19 vaccine makes people magnetic.
In the “Overseas Peace” category, which includes “State, Defense, and Intelligence” agencies, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) received the most votes. Gabbard, co-chair of Trump’s transition team, is reportedly vying for nomination as secretary of defense.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn received the second most votes after Gabbard. Flynn briefly served as President Trump’s first national security adviser, but was fired by Trump for lying to then-Vice President Mike Pence about Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States. President Trump later pardoned Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about these conversations.
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk received the most votes in the “education” category, while former Texas congressman Ron Paul was by far the top candidate in the “economy” category on Kennedy’s website. Ta.
While the top vote-getters received more than 1,000 votes, many others suggested as potential candidates had very few if any votes on the site.
President Kennedy said this last week. NBC News President Trump has said he wants him to play a role in improving U.S. government health agencies in three key areas: “Cleaning out corruption in these institutions.” “Return these agencies to the scientific gold standard” and “Make America Healthy Again” by reducing the “epidemic of chronic disease.”
“I don’t know if that’s the position I want,” Kennedy said when asked if Trump would nominate him to head the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the sprawling health agency.
“I might be more qualified in the White House as secretary of health or something like that, but I don’t know,” he said.
He also said President Trump has “absolutely” asked me to take a leadership role in improving public health and policy.
At an event in Kennedy, Arizona over the weekend. reportedly He signaled that he would lay off 600 National Institutes of Health employees and replace them.
“We need to move quickly, and we hope to have that staffing in place on January 20th, so that on January 21st, 600 people will be in the NIH office and 600 people will be leaving.” reported ABC News. He cited a YouTube video of President Kennedy’s remarks.
