A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis isn’t ready to tap Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after all.
Instead, the Florida Governor and 2024 presidential candidate envisions the Democrat anti-vaxxer as part of a “bipartisan task force” to “hold them accountable.”
“He wouldn’t be the head of CDC. That would be a doctor or a Ph.D.,” DeSantis said, such as a Jay Bhattacharya.
“But I’m going to have, probably, a task force to go in there to hold people accountable for COVID, hold people accountable for what things are happening. So it would be more in that role that I’d want to get a bipartisan group of people together who understand the process. Understand the federal government’s COVID response was a disaster that hurt people that hurt this country,” DeSantis told interviewer Megyn Kelly.
During an interview earlier this week with Outkick, DeSantis lauded RFK, continuing praise for the Democratic presidential candidate.
“Yes, the medical stuff. I’m very good on that,” DeSantis said. “So that does appeal to me. … In that regard, it’s like, ‘OK, if you’re President, you know, sic him on the FDA, if he’d be willing to serve, or sic him on CDC.’”
DeSantis told Kelly Friday that his enthusiasm for Kennedy in that role was misinterpreted, given the framing of the question in the very friendly Outkick interview was about whether Kennedy could be DeSantis’ Vice President. The Governor told Kelly there was “chatter on our side about doing that,” though he didn’t specify from where that chatter comes.
Kennedy, whose vaccine skepticism predates DeSantis’ pandemic-driven interest, recently claimed COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jewish and Chinese people. He has since backpedaled, saying he should have been “more careful” with his words.
11 comments
Michael K
July 28, 2023 at 3:49 pm
Poor little Rhonda is Miss Interpreted.
Thomas Kaspar
July 28, 2023 at 3:59 pm
Zzzzz
Thomas Kaspar
July 28, 2023 at 4:00 pm
AntiDeSantis political spam
RonBeGone
July 28, 2023 at 11:24 pm
Haha. No need when he generates so much damaging content every time he opens his trap.
Tjb
July 28, 2023 at 4:34 pm
He should have picked Willie Nelson over Kennedy for the job,
tom palmer
July 28, 2023 at 4:34 pm
Has he lost his mind to even suggest that?
The New Earl Pitts "Hey Hes One Of Us" American
July 28, 2023 at 4:54 pm
Good afternoon America,
I, Earl Pitts American, told y’all we were just messing with the left on that whole RFK thing.
To shift gears to something dear to my heart:
Here is a serious issue which I, Earl Pitts American, am very concerned about:
America I have noticed a lot of you beloved citizens are failing to take my, Earl Pitts American’s, great knowledge shares on political issues as being the gospel truth, as being the gold standard, as being the closest thing to life sustaining political Mannah from Heaven above that anyone will ever experience.
I know it rankles a lot of leftist readers pride here at our beloved host F. P. to always be wrong while virtually sitting in the same virtual chat space as me, Earl Pitts American, who is always correct.
So to honor and build trust with my fellow posters here at F. P. I, Earl Pitts American, will try a new approach which I have given the acromim EFU which denotes “Earl €ffs Up”.
So my fans look forward to this:
From time to time I, Earl Pitts American, will intentionally post some information that is wrong, stupid, or wrong and stupid.
That way all my fellow posters will start looking at me as just one of the guys. Y’all will start talking amoung yourself like this:
“Yeah that guy Earl is allright but sometimes hes wrong, stupid, or wrong and stupid … but hey arent we all sometimes”?
So look forward to the New Earl Pitts “Hey Hes One Of Us” American.
Thank you America,
EPA
Joe
July 28, 2023 at 5:03 pm
NEVER BACK DOWN, except sometimes
Dont Say FLA
July 28, 2023 at 5:32 pm
Rhonda can appoint RFK Jr to be a Moms For Liberty today. Put your money, well, put Florida’s money where your mouth is, Rhonda. Beg Steve Bannon to install RFK as the lead Mom for Liberty.
Michael K
July 28, 2023 at 6:19 pm
Never.
Back down.
RonBeGone
July 28, 2023 at 11:27 pm
Bobble head flip flopper in his last campaign days. Keeps eating his own feet. Should put the boots back on.
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