This morning, the U.S. Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as the next secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). I am thrilled about this.
I couldn’t care less about his stance on abortion or even the trans issue because I do not think he will undermine Donald Trump’s stance on those issues. I believe he wants this job very badly and does not want to get fired, so he is not going to undermine Trump’s agenda on those items – and Trump has been really clear on those items.
I do, however, care about chronic disease, our children, our food supply, conflicts of interest at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the disgusting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), and he is going to run roughshod over all those in a great way. He is to these organizations what Kash Patel is to the FBI, and we desperately need it.
The History
I have to say, there is something kind of emotional about it for me because of the journey I have been on with RFKJ. Let’s go back to the summer of 2021. It was the height of the COVID pandemic, and the Biden administration was censoring all those who had questions about anything related to how COVID started, vaccines safety, etc.
There was one particularly crazy day at the White House, where they read a list of the so-called “Disinformation Dozen,” which were people who were questioning the dogma of Biden, the CDC, and the NIH. Almost all of that dogma turned out to be false, but Big Tech went along with the censorship. At the top of the “Disinformation Dozen” list? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
In November 2021, Bobby dropped his book called The Real Anthony Fauci, which even I was like, ‘I don’t trust him. I’m not going to read that book.’ But in this great moment, I was skiing with a friend and she told me to read it. I tried to tell her to be careful because, you know, garbage in, garbage out. But I love this woman. She is very smart. And she really encouraged me to just take a look.
So, I trusted her. I did start to take a look, and I realized it was actually kind of interesting. I don’t like Fauci, so I was openminded to it. One thing led to another, and I asked my team to take a look at this book, and then start taking a look at RFKJ. Then, we started calling all of his worst critics and hearing all the terrible things they had to say about him. Then, we called other people, like going down the line, trying to figure out whether they sounded like people we should listen to or not.
RFKJ on The MK Show
Long story short, these critics sounded much more like agenda-driven Biden supporters who didn’t want discussions about lab leaks and so on. So, we decided to invite him on the show. It was March 2022, and I was going through this terrible thing with my youngest son. He injured his spleen skiing and was in the ICU for a week. That was the week I had to tape all the final lines for the RFKJ interview that we had done with him weeks prior.
But we did it, and we got it out there. It was a four-hour interview. The first half was about vaccines and the second was about his personal life (you can watch part I here, and part II here). And he really came out sounding so reasonable. I remember he kind of made a point about how he was still a Democrat, but he was a bit of a disaffected Democrat when he looked around at his own party:
KENNEDY: I saw a Gallup poll recently – it was either Gallup or Rasmussen – that said something like 70 percent of Democrats support government restricting speech. And, you know, it’s almost inexplicable to me that we could be in that place right now. I believe my political party was a party that would go to the mat to protect people’s right to say what they want, and that’s so critical for our democracy. It also is critical to public health. Listen, I may be wrong about the things that I talk about, but, you know, why can’t we debate them?
He had been banned from virtually all social media platforms at that point. Nobody would talk to him. He specifically complained that he couldn’t get on with Joe Rogan. He just wasn’t getting any doors opened because, like my own bias, most people were looking at him thinking, ‘He’s a kook.’ That is all we ever heard about him, and it seemed universal.
We ended up having a very contentious but robust four hours together, and I really came to like and respect him. That interview lived on all platforms. It didn’t get de-platformed or demonetized or clipped anywhere – not on TikTok, not on Instagram, not on YouTube, nowhere. And shortly thereafter, doors started to open for him. People felt like they could put him on. It was the beginning of a resurgence for him that ultimately resulted in him running for president.
Then and Now
A year later, he came back on the show he said thanks for putting me on:
Now here we are in February 2025, and that man has just been confirmed by a majority of the Senate – losing only Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on the Republican side – in a 52 to 48 vote to be our next secretary of Health and Human Services.
It has been a monumental comeback for him, and he did it through his own hard work and refusal to stay quiet when he was blacklisted by the White House as a “disinformation” officer. I feel so hopeful about this whole MAHA movement. I think he really did help Trump get elected, and I am thrilled he has the green light to start enacting true reform.
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