{"id":65907,"date":"2024-01-02T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T22:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/rfk-jr-adds-leading-anti-vaxxer-to-presidential-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-01-02T22:45:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T22:45:40","slug":"rfk-jr-adds-leading-anti-vaxxer-to-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/02\/rfk-jr-adds-leading-anti-vaxxer-to-presidential-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Adds \u201cLeading Anti-Vaxxer\u201d to Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/09\/rfk-kennedy-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong><\/a> has added a new hire to his presidential campaign staff: <strong>Del Bigtree,<\/strong> who, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/rfk-jr-hires-leading-anti-vaxxer-del-bigtree-as-new-comms-director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per The Daily Beast<\/a>, has the distinction of being known as \u201cone of the country\u2019s leading anti-vaxxers,\u201d which makes a lot of sense given RFK Jr.\u2019s views on vaccines, like that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rfk-kennedy-election-2024-president-campaign-dd7d7b3b8641b9620799681d3ea20ff0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There\u2019s no vaccine that is safe and effective<\/a>.\u201d (To be clear, such a take is what actual medical experts call <em>not true at all.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Bigtree, who will serve as Kennedy\u2019s director of communications, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1r32gVZGW_dt_qmlidLd6l8l-NskIbfRQYL_Utosm3mU\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> announcing his new role that working for Kennedy\u2019s campaign was the \u201cgreatest opportunity\u201d of his life to date. He also wrote that he had been \u201can unvaccinated, homeschooled child,\u201d and that \u201cthe only doctor I ever saw was a chiropractor.\u201d Of the pandemic, he said, \u201cIn January 2020, we witnessed what the dark forces of medical tyranny are capable of when they launched the greatest psychological operation the world has ever experienced,\u201d and complained that \u201cno one in charge during this fiasco has issued anything remotely close to an apology.\u201d He also claimed that the COVID-19 vaccines have \u201cproven to have negative efficacy, causing people to be more prone to infection than doing nothing at all.\u201d In July, Kennedy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/07\/rfk-jr-covid-ethnically-targeted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggested<\/a>\u00a0that COVID-19 was \u201cethnically targeted\u201d to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. (Hopefully it does not have to be said, but we\u2019ll say it anyway that neither this nor Bigtree\u2019s claim re: COVID vaccines have any basis in reality.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/anti-vaxxer-del-bigtree-got-his-start-on-the-tv-show-the-doctors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with The Daily Beast in 2019, Bigtree compared vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany, saying, \u201cA Jewish community was going to be quarantined and not allowed to go into their own synagogues during Passover. To me, it seems so obvious that smacks of the issues in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Last month, a Reuters\/Ipsos poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-vs-trump-would-be-close-rematch-with-rfk-jr-threat-biden-reutersipsos-poll-2023-12-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showed<\/a> Kennedy drawing votes from <strong>Joe Biden,<\/strong> with <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s lead over Biden widening to five points when respondents were given the option to vote for the independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>In which a GOP congresswoman makes the actual argument that Anderson Cooper was doing shots on NYE because he\u2019s depressed about Joe Biden\u2019s America<\/strong><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd jyISiS hloGrW\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1742190993904972179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd jyISiS joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Conservatives are very mad at Green Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl YIGPO ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd jyISiS hloGrW\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1742236889753473091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd jyISiS joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Elsewhere!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Trump appeals Maine\u2019s decision to ban him from the primary ballot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/01\/02\/trump-maine-ballot-appeal-14th-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns\u2014Seemingly Over Plagiarism, Not Jewish Genocide Hearing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/claudine-gay-harvard-resignation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>These politicians denied democracy on Jan. 6. 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Kennedy Jr. has added a new hire to his presidential campaign staff: Del Bigtree, who, per The Daily Beast, has the distinction of being known as \u201cone of the country\u2019s leading anti-vaxxers,\u201d which makes a lot of sense given RFK Jr.\u2019s views on vaccines, like that \u201cThere\u2019s no vaccine that is safe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[158,2183],"class_list":{"0":"post-65907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-2024-election","9":"tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}