Caroline Kennedy Tries to Sabotage RFK Jr’s HHS Nomination
Caroline Kennedy is doing her best to derail her cousin Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. In the video below, she reads the malicious missive she sent on Tuesday to members of the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, who are set to question Kennedy on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.
Caroline, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Australia in the Biden administration and the U.S. ambassador to Japan during the Obama administration, called her cousin a “predator” who is “addicted to attention and power.”
She said she “never wanted to speak publicly about my family members and their challenges” but if confirmed, her cousin would be tasked with “protecting the most vulnerable among us, I feel an obligation to speak out.”
She continued, “He lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed. These facts alone should be disqualifying, but he has personal qualities related to this job, which for me pose even greater concern.”
“It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets, because Bobby himself is a predator. He’s always been charismatic, able to attract others through the strength of his personality, his willingness to take risks, and break the rules.”
“I watched his younger brothers and cousins follow him down the path of drug addiction. His basement, his garage, his dorm room were always the center of the action.”
Caroline admitted that was a long time ago and he overcame his drug and alcohol problems. “But siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death, while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life.”
For the record, Kennedy has been drug and alcohol-free since 1984 and remains an active member of AA.
She pivoted to Kennedy’s vaccine hesitancy which, of course, is relevant. But then she blamed him for a deadly outbreak of measles in American Samoa. “His constant denigration of our health care system, the half-truths he’s told, including in connection with Samoa’s deadly 2019 outbreak of measles have cost lives.”
She claimed her cousin had “expropriated my father’s image and distorted President Kennedy’s legacy to advance his own failed presidential campaign and then groveled to Donald Trump for a job.”
“It’s incomprehensible to me that someone who is willing to exploit their own painful family tragedies for publicity would be put in charge of America’s life-and-death situations,” she added.
Caroline concluded by asking the senators to reject Kennedy’s nomination.
Frankly, aside from a bitter woman who loathes her cousin, I didn’t hear anything disqualifying in her remarks. The attacks against Kennedy were ad hominem rather than focused on his qualifications.
The knives are coming out for Kennedy from every possible direction, just as they did for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week.
You may have heard reports that 17,000 doctors have signed a letter calling on the Senate to reject Kennedy’s nomination.
On Jan. 9, CBS reported:
In a letter posted online by the Committee to Protect Health Care, a physician organization that advocates for health policy issues, thousands of doctors urge senators to reject the nomination of Kennedy, saying he is “unqualified to lead” and is “actively dangerous.”
Yikes, 17000 doctors. Sounds ominous, doesn’t it?
Jillian Michaels, media personality and fitness instructor to the stars, did a little digging and discovered it was a fake letter. As it turns out, anyone can sign the letter. You don’t even have to be a doctor. In fact, she signed it twice!
And the clincher: The group behind the letter is the Arabella Advisors, a firm that oversees the “most powerful left-wing dark money network in America,” according to Fox News.
The Fox article goes on to say, “Arabella Advisors-managed nonprofits house dozens of liberal nonprofits, including one that works with the Biden administration on policy.”
Michaels explains how she uncovered this information in the clip below.
And many Democrats who once respected Kennedy, such as Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, are opposed to his nomination. Markey now considers Kennedy “unqualified, unserious and dangerous.”
President Obama considered nominating Kennedy to run the Environmental Protection Agency in 2008.
Finally, for anyone who might be interested, I included a podcast from Attorney Alan Dershowitz, who knew all of the members of the Kennedy family very well – including the patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy, JFK, RFK, Sr, and Ted Kennedy.
After hearing of Caroline Kennedy’s letter, he weighed in on the situation. He shared quite a few interesting anecdotes that I found fascinating and thought you might too.
Spoiler: He doesn’t much care for Caroline.
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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