Independent candidate in the US presidential election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s son shared a video on social media showing part of his father’s phone call with Donald Trump. Among other things, you can hear Trump talk negatively about vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized to the former president for the leak.
Robert F. Kennedy III, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s son, he ran for President of the United States. On Tuesday, she shared a recording of a phone conversation she had with her father, Donald Trump, on X (formerly Twitter – ed.), ABC News reported. “I honestly believe that these kinds of conversations should be held publicly. This is how Trump presents his real views on vaccines to my dad. (…) This is not some cheap deep fake, it’s the truth,” the 39-year-old wrote in the already-entered deleted content. A conversation between the opposing candidates was recorded on Sunday, the day after Donald Trump was attacked at a rally in Pennsylvania, as he actually said.
Donald Trump on vaccines
Robert F. Although the recording has since disappeared from Kennedy III’s account, copies have been preserved online. One of them was shared on X by Politico’s political reporter Meredith McGraw. You can hear part of the conversation when Donald Trump says he “agrees” with Kennedy. – There is something wrong with this whole system – the former president, referring to the US health care system.
The former president repeatedly repeats scientifically debunked theses about the serious side effects of vaccines. “When you give a child a vaccine that’s a combination of 38 different vaccines that’s meant for a horse and not a five- or ten-pound child…and then you see that child suddenly start to change dramatically,” Trump continued. . – Then you ask that it has no effect, right? – he adds. – But we talked about this a long time ago – he tells Kennedy, moving on to the next topic.
As Reuters notes, Trump’s words about vaccines “repeat some of Kennedy’s earlier comments,” saying he “has been spreading misinformation about vaccines for years.”
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Donald Trump’s Private Conversation Leaked
The next part of the exchange between the rival candidates is unclear, but ABC News notes that it may represent an attempt to encourage Kennedy to support the Trump campaign. – I want you to do it. I think it will be very good and important for you. And we will win. Let’s win. We’re ahead of this guy, Trump tells Kennedy.
Next, the former president recounts his last conversation with – context shows – US President Joe Biden. – It was actually pretty good – he admits, perhaps referring to Biden’s phone call after the attempt on Trump’s life. – He asked me how I knew to turn right (at the time of the shot – Ed.). (…) I told him that I would present a chart. (…) I turned my head to show the map and something hit me. It sounded like the biggest mosquito in the world. It was a bullet, Trump added.
In a post published Tuesday afternoon, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He explained that the conversation was recorded because Trump called him while he was recording another video. “I should have immediately ordered the cameraman to stop filming. I am appalled for posting this video. I apologize to President Trump,” the politician added. Trump’s team, asked for comment by CNN, recommended Kennedy’s entry authors.
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Representatives of Joe Biden’s campaign said in a statement cited by CNN that “this record is further evidence that Trump cannot be trusted to protect Americans’ health care.” “Trump and his anti-vaccine cronies are spreading dangerous conspiracy theories that threaten the health care that tens of thousands of people rely on,” they added.
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Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines
As CNN notes, Donald Trump has previously expressed his negative attitude toward vaccines. He once said he would pay for any public school to implement a mandatory vaccination program. In turn, in his political program, he questions the origin of “the inexplicable and alarming increase of chronic diseases and health problems, especially among children”.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly talked about the connection between the “childhood epidemic” and the widespread use of vaccines. He promoted false theories that vaccines cause autism. The politician once compared U.S. vaccination policy to the actions of totalitarian nations, and said that “Anne Frank was in a better situation when she was hiding from the Nazis” than American citizens in 2022. The falsity of his claims has been confirmed by several independent studies.
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