(Daily Mail) Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic should he win the White House in 2024.
For more than a decade, Kennedy, 69, has become one of the country’s most prominent anti-vaxxers – falsely linking jabs to autism.
Kennedy said if he wins the presidency, he would bring Fauci to justice if his Attorney General found that ‘crimes were committed.’
‘If there were crimes that he committed, of course, I would tell the attorney general to prosecute him, not hold off,’ Kennedy promised during an interview on Fox News.
Although Kennedy did not outright state whether America’s former top doctor is guilty of committing a crime, he stated how he believes Dr. Fauci caused ‘a lot of injury’ by alleging he withheld treatments from Americans during the early stages of the pandemic.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Speaking on Fox News Kennedy criticized Dr. Fauci for allegedly withholding treatments from Americans in the early stages of the pandemic
Kennedy said it was Fauci’s actions that actually contributed to the United States’ high death count.
‘I think that he particularly, by withholding early treatment from Americans, we racked up the highest death count in the world,’ Kennedy said during Monday night’s interview.
‘We only have 4.2 percent of the globe’s population, but we had 16 percent of the COVID deaths in this country and that was from bad policy,’ Kennedy explained.
‘There are countries that did the opposite of what we did that provided Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, other early treatments to their populations and had 1/200th of our death rate.
‘There are many, many things we did wrong in our country and some of those were I would say … some of the things that were done by health officials at that time, that they knew they would be harmful.’
Kennedy, known for his anti-vaccine views linking jabs to autism stated he would direct his Attorney General to pursue legal action against Dr. Fauci, above, if ‘crimes were committed’
Kennedy has in the past leveled similar accusations in a book entitled ‘The Real Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.’
Kennedy was then asked by host Jesse Watters why he continues to tout the false claim that childhood vaccinations are linked to autism.
Kennedy has in the past leveled similar accusations in a book entitled ‘The Real Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.’
‘I do believe that autism does come from vaccines but I think most of the things people believe about my opinions about vaccines are wrong,’ Kennedy said.
‘You know, all I have said about vaccines we should have good science. We should have the same kind of testing, placebo-controlled trials that we have for every other kind of medication.
‘Vaccines are exempt from pre-licensing placebo-controlled trials. So there’s no way that anybody can tell the risk of all those products or even the relative benefits of all those products before they are mandated and we should have that kind of testing.’
Kennedy was not challenged robustly by Watters during the interview who appeared to accept the details that he was touting.
While Kennedy’s popularity has increased, he remains far behind President Joe Biden in the polls for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Dr. Fauci suggested RFK Jnr’s surge in the polls could lead to people ‘unnecessarily dying’ because they don’t get vaccinated (pictured speaking to DailyMail.com)
Last week, in an interview with DailyMail.com, Fauci said he was concerned that people could potentially be influenced by Kennedy’s vaccine theories and the implications it could have on public health leading to unnecessary deaths.
America’s top infectious disease doctor suggested that RFK Jr.’s surge in the polls could lead to people ‘unnecessarily dying’ because they don’t get vaccinated.
When asked if Kennedy’s increasing popularity was ‘concerning’, Fauci said: ‘Of course, I mean I’m a physician and vaccines save lives.
‘Plus, I’m concerned if there’s [a rise in] anti-vaxx. People will unnecessarily suffer and die because they don’t get vaccinated.’
Kennedy has moaned the media portrays him as an anti-vaxxer to discredit him and has repeatedly claimed he is actually ‘pro-safe vaccine.’
On the Lex Fridman podcast, the Democratic presidential candidate was asked to ‘name any vaccines you think are good.’
Kennedy replied: ‘I think some of the live virus vaccines are probably averting more problems than they’re causing.’
He added: ‘There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.’
Kennedy went on to claim the polio vaccine – one of the most studied vaccines in existence – had led to an explosion of soft tissue cancers in recent decades that have ‘killed more people than polio ever did.’
There are no known cases of polio vaccine-related cancer.
Critics have accused RFK Jr. of capitalizing on the rise of medical skepticism in the wake of the Covid pandemic.
Kennedy’s anti-vaccine charity, Children’s Health Defense, saw its revenues more than double in 2020 to $6.8 million, according to filings made with charity regulators.
