Caroline Kennedy warns against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health nomination

Former U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy sent a letter to senators warning against the nomination of her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. A video was also published on the X portal, in which Caroline Kennedy reads the content of the letter.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lawyer known for his work in environmental and health protection, and is famous for his skepticism about vaccines (he claimed they cause autism). Trump has announced from the beginning that he would entrust him with the role in his cabinet of "making America healthy again".

Caroline stated in the letter that her cousin, "addicted to attention," gave hypocritical advice by discouraging parents from vaccinating their children while vaccinating his own children. She claimed that his "crusade against vaccination" also served him to become wealthy.

In Tuesday's letter, she quoted a New York Times report that her cousin will retain his financial stake in the lawsuit against the manufacturer of the HPV vaccine. "In other words, he is willing to enrich himself by denying access to a vaccine that can prevent almost all forms of cervical cancer and which has been safely administered to millions of boys and girls."

At the beginning of the letter, the former ambassador noted that she had not spoken out about her cousin until now because she "never wanted to speak publicly about my family members and their challenges." However, when he was nominated, she felt obliged. "He lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed. These facts alone should be disqualifying, but he has personal qualities related to this job, which for me pose even greater concern," the letter reads.

She emphasized that she knows him very well because they grew up together. "It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets, because Bobby himself is a predator," Kennedy wrote.

Caroline Kennedy further claims that due to "the strength of his personality," other family members followed in Kennedy Jr.'s footsteps, on a dark path of addiction to "illness and death." "His basement, his garage, his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence," she relates in the letter. She praised Kennedy Jr. for "pulling himself out of illness and disease," but lamented the "siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life."

In August 2024, Kennedy Jr. announced he was suspending his campaign. Kennedy filed documents in Pennsylvania indicating he was withdrawing from the race for the White House. He then announced he would support Donald Trump, who was seeking re-election at the time.

Even before the official announcement of Kennedy's decision - known as RFK Jr. - suggestions emerged that in return for supporting Trump, he would receive a position in his cabinet.