Trump is belatedly learning about a lot of RFK Jr.’s political baggage on public health issues and trying to “walk back” a lot of his positions. In some cases, its gaslighting to tell the tzibur he “never said” what we have heard RFK Jr. say on multiple occasions. In other cases, they are spinning his misstatements to say that “what he really meant was that government should “STUDY” a vaccine or medication even though it has been studied over decades and the vast majority of public health and medical studies support efficacy and safety.
RFK Jr. has a unique opportunity to go after the real issues in public health and is squandering both his own (and indirectly Trump’s) credibility even with the Republican constituencies.