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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

critical
Positions

Secretary of Health and Human Services (2025-present)

Environmental Lawyer

Anti-vaccine Activist

Organizations

Trump Administration

Children's Health Defense (former)

Last Updated

January 26, 2026

Description

Secretary of Health and Human Services (2025-present). Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who spread COVID misinformation, promoted antisemitic theories about COVID origins, and threatened public health infrastructure.

Fascist Characteristics

anti vaccine activism public health destruction antisemitic conspiracy theories science denial

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Evidence

Led largest anti-vaccine organization in US; blamed for measles outbreaks and vaccine hesitancy deaths

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Claimed COVID-19 was 'ethnically targeted' to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people - an antisemitic conspiracy

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Spread false claims linking vaccines to autism despite scientific consensus showing no connection

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Compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust and Anne Frank's persecution

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