Caroline Kennedy calls RFK Jr. A ‘Predator’ and calls on the Senate to reject its nomination

In a letter Tuesday, the Senate called on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as health and human service secretary, Caroline Kennedy referred to her cousin as a “predator.”

Caroline Kennedy, a former US ambassador to Australia and daughter of President John F. Kennedy, said RFK Jr. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Among her many criticism in the letter to the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Workforce and Pensions, Kennedy said that “siblings and cousins ​​who Bobby encouraged down the path of drug addiction, little addiction, illness and death.”

She also accused her cousin of lacking any relevant experience for the role and said he has “dangerous and intentionally wrongly informed” views on vaccines. She read the letter aloud in A video that is posted on x by her son, Jack Schlossberg.

“Bobby is dependent on attention and power,” Caroline Kennedy said, using her cousin’s nickname. “Bobby ranks about desperation of parents of sick children – vaccination of his own children, while building one following by hypocritical deterrent of other parents from vaccinating theirs.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not answer shouted questions from journalists on Tuesday about the letter or his confirmation hearing this week. A spokesman told NBC News he wouldn’t comment.

He is ready to perform Wednesday for Senat’s Finance Committee for the first of two hearings.

RFK Jr. is the founder of Children’s Health Defense, a prominent anti-vaccine activist group. He has repeatedly questioned the safety and effectiveness of routine vaccinations, such as those for measles, hepatitis B and flu.

In her letter, Caroline Kennedy referred to a 2019 outbreak of measles in Samoa as evidence of the consequences of her cousin’s anti-vaccine rhetoric. Samoa’s Health Director of Health has accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before Waging a disinformation campaign The sticky vaccine hesitated at the time, although Kennedy has denied some responsibility for the outbreak.

The letter also notes RFK Jr.’s intention to continue charging fees over litigation against the pharmaceutical company Merck. The suit claims that the company could not warn consumers correctly about the side effects associated with its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, reducing the risk of cervical cancer. The CDC says the vaccine have a “Secure security record.”

“Bobby is willing to serve and enrich themselves by refusing access to a vaccine that can prevent almost all kinds of cervical cancer,” wrote Caroline Kennedy.

She also raised concerns about her cousin’s “personal characteristics.”

“His basement, his garage and his dorm room were centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks,” said Caroline Kennedy. “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”

RFK Jr., whose father was a senator when he was murdered while driving to president in 1968, ran for president himself as a Democrat and then as independent, but he suspended his campaign during the summer. Shortly afterwards he approved Donald Trump and joined his transition team. In November, Trump said he would nominate RFK Jr. to HHS Secretary.

Caroline Kennedy said she had refrained from talking publicly about her cousin in the past year because of her role as former ambassador and a desire not to comment on family members. However, she said in the letter that her father and other family members would be “disgusted” by her cousin’s actions.

“Bobby expropriated my father’s image and distorted President Kennedy’s inheritance to promote his own failed presidential campaign and then graveled to Donald Trump for a job,” she said.

“Bobby continues to tire of my father’s assault and his own father,” she added. “It is incomprehensible to me that a person who is willing to exploit their own painful family tragedies for advertising would be held accountable for America’s life and death situations.”