Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year, when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines”.
Letters obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press contradict that testimony. In one he wrote to the Samoan prime minister before the trip, Kennedy explicitly said he wanted to study the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in the Pacific island nation. In it, he used the words vaccine or vaccination eight times.
“I am writing this letter to you in the hope that we might be helpful to the people of your great nation,” he wrote, adding that he believed the deaths of two children there after an MMR vaccine could have resulted from manufacturing issues.
21 Comments
newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org · 38 pts · 22h
I'd be more surprised if that gross cretin told the truth about literally anything.
user1234@fedinsfw.app · 9 pts · 20h
I'm just surprised that he can even spell vaccine
Photonic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18h
That would be the brain worm talking, and making more sense than him
johnefrancis@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 20h
"I lied, I didn't cook the roadkill. I ate it raw of tbe warm road with my bare hands."
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18h
"Depends on your definition of 'cooked'"
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 16h
And what will they do with that information?
Nothing, as per usual
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 7h
That's the one big problem in the US: no consequences for lying or breaking the law for the Epstein class.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 21h
Ok so put him in prison
ryper@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 20h
Nothing will come of it, recent history indicates.
404found@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 22h
Everyone lies. This is America
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 22h
It's normal now. Everybody does it.
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 22h
If everybody lies, your statement is true, which also makes it false, which also makes it true... oh my what have I done?
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 20h
Relax, there is a cure. Put a mirror in the microwave and set the time for 222.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h
It would actually be weird if you weren't lying. Why are you being weird about this? Do you work for the Russians?
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 21h
We aren't supposed to call Trump Russian till AFTER the "election."
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16h
So did Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. And it was a lie about russian collusion.
Spoiler alert: it was investigated and dropped because maybe he just forgot he was colluding.
weps@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2h
about a year ago he said he was going to provide proof that vaccines cause autism in 2 months
is that also a lie?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1h
He said Tylenol causes autism, then it didn't.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 16h
lock him up. lock him up!
Nonprophet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16h
'Yes, I lied. Not about doing heroin, but about QUITTING heroin.'
spacegoat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2h
Republicans should by definition be barred from government work