RFK Jr.’s Sister Kerry Kennedy Reacts After John Oliver Calls For Her Brother’s Impeachment

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sister Kerry Kennedy slammed respective baseless conspiracy theories her member has dispersed during his tenure arsenic wellness and quality services secretary, saying he’s not acceptable for the job. 

“I emotion Bobby and I find him incredibly charismatic. But I person said — and my different household members person been ace wide astir this — that we disagree again and again and again connected the things that he’s said,” she told CNN’s Erin Burnett connected Monday’s occurrence of “OutFront.”

Kerry Kennedy’s effect came aft Burnett featured a clip from Sunday’s occurrence of John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight,” wherever the comedian digs into Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his scandals. Oliver’s commentary connected the wellness caput has since gone viral arsenic helium states, “RFK successful this occupation is dangerous.”

The comedian added, “He’s presently spreading unsafe nonsense and gutting life-saving research, each portion bringing successful a basement quack.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic who has agelong promoted initiatives aligned with right-winged conspiracy theories specified arsenic removing fluoride successful h2o and consuming earthy milk, has received much backlash successful caller weeks for the violative comments helium made toward radical with autism.

“These are kids who volition ne'er wage taxes. They’ll ne'er clasp a job. They’ll ne'er play baseball. They’ll ne'er constitute a poem. They’ll ne'er spell retired connected a date. Many of them volition ne'er usage a toilet unassisted,” Kennedy said past week while pledging to find the origin of autism spectrum upset by September.

Oliver raised alarm bells astatine the monolithic layoff wrong the Department of Health and Human Services. A apical authoritative wrong the National Institutes of Health has resigned under the existent leadership, citing censorship.

“RFK needs to go, and by impeachment if necessary,” Oliver said. “Too overmuch harm has already been done. This is simply a antheral who is intelligibly successful mode implicit his worm-riddled head.”

Burnett asked Kerry Kennedy connected Monday if she agrees with Oliver’s remarks, to which she responded, “I deliberation helium is not an due HHS secretary.”

Kerry Kennedy past listed the misinformed theories her member has promoted, including vaccine skepticism, HIV not being the origin of AIDS and that radical are transgender due to the fact that of h2o pollution.

“This is insanity. Just look astatine the science,” she said. “This goes connected and connected and on. I emotion my brother. I deliberation he’s dormant wrong.”

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