RFK Jr‘s cousin and former president John F Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Kennedy disapproved of RFK Jr’s views on vaccines and said she had known him for a long time as she grew up with him — as she gave her farewell speech at the National Press Club in Canberra. “Others are just getting to know him.” On being asked about Donald Trump’s new health secretary, the US ambassador to Australia since 2022 said ambassadors are not supposed to comment on politics and she’s asked to comment on family.
Calling his anti-vaccine ideas dangerous, Caroline said, “I don’t think most Americans share his views. I would say that our family is united in terms of our support for the public health sector and infrastructure and has the greatest admiration for the medical profession in our country. Bobby Kennedy has got a different set of views.”
Though an anti-vaxxer, Kennedy Jr said that the incoming administration would not take away vaccines from the American people. “If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away. People ought to have [a] choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information,” Kennedy Jr said.
The outgoing US ambassador was also asked about When asked about the director of national intelligence to-be, Tulsi Gabbard. Caroline Kennedy said, “There are thousands of people who work in our intelligence agencies and work closely with Australia…and that’s going to continue.” Kennedy said Trump’s appointments have been “making waves and headlines,” but let’s just “calm down and wait and see what happens.”
RFK Jr was in the presidential race as an independent candidate against Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. But then he dropped out in August and endorsed Trump in exchange for a role in Trump’s administration that he has now got but his conspiracy theories are what the Americans are scared of as he will be taking charge of the health.
