Caroline Kennedy wrote a letter to key senators on Tuesday, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” who’s hooked on the eye he will get from airing harmful views on vaccinations.
She referred to as on lawmakers, who shall be questioning Mr. Kennedy at his affirmation hearings to grow to be the nation’s well being secretary on Wednesday and Thursday, to reject his nomination. She cited his lack of expertise, misinformed views on vaccines and private attributes. Within the letter, she described how he led different households members “down the trail of drug dependancy.”
“His basement, his storage, and his dorm room have been the facilities of the motion the place medicine have been obtainable, and he loved exhibiting off how he put child chickens and mice within the blender to feed his hawks,” Ms. Kennedy wrote. “It was usually a perverse scene of despair and violence.”
Her letter was first reported in The Washington Submit.
She gave him credit score for overcoming his drug dependancy, which Mr. Kennedy has mentioned extensively, however she stated that the collateral injury was in depth.
“However siblings and cousins who Bobby inspired down the trail of substance abuse suffered dependancy, sickness and dying whereas Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie and cheat his approach by means of life,” Ms. Kennedy wrote.
She criticized his advocacy in opposition to vaccines, describing it as a part of an dependancy to consideration and energy.
“Bobby preys on the desperation of oldsters of sick kids — vaccinating his personal kids whereas constructing a following by hypocritically discouraging different mother and father from vaccinating theirs,” she wrote.