This time next week, America will be watching and wondering who will become the next president.
If things swing his way, Republican Donald Trump has already laid out exactly what he wants his former Democratic-rival-turned-supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to do.
Here’s what you missed.
On Sunday, Trump said that he would let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” in dealing with issues related to food, medicine and health in a potential second administration.
“I’m going to let him go wild on health. I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines,” Trump told supporters at his Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend.
Trump tonight on RFK Jr:
“I'm gonna let him go wild on health. I'm gonna let him go wild on the food. I'm gonna let him go wild on the medicines." pic.twitter.com/tBVXrou1YQ
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) October 28, 2024
RFK, Jr.’s alleged work under a potential Trump administration has been in the works for some time now.
According to a recent report from The Hill’s Ashleigh Fields, she said that:
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signaled in a new video that if former President Trump wins November’s election, he could join the administration to work on agriculture policy. Kennedy, who suspended most of his campaign earlier this year and backed Trump, outlined a list of priorities he said he would usher in for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) if Trump is elected.”
“‘When @realDonaldTrump gets me inside the USDA, we’re going to give farmers an off-ramp from the current system that destroys soil, makes people sick, and harms family farms,’ he wrote Monday on the social platform X, along with a video asking supporters to donate to his ‘Make America Healthy Again’ cause,” Fields reported.
“…’America’s current ag policy is destroying America’s health on every level. It’s destroying the economic health of farmers by forcing them to get big or get out,’ Kennedy said in the video. ‘Big corporate farms do just fine, while the small and medium family operators are squeezed to the point of collapse.’”
“He then touched on issues caused by toxic pesticides and polluted soil and shared plans to remove internal ‘conflicts of interest’ within the agency,” Fields reported.
“‘We’re going to ban the worst agricultural chemicals that are already prohibited in other countries. And we’re going to remove conflicts of interest from the USDA dietary panels and commissions,’ he said. ‘I’ve seen some of what America’s most innovative, regenerative farmers are doing today. They can literally green deserts. They rebuild depleted soils, wells that have been dry for 30 years start flowing again.’”
Kennedy, a longtime Democratic environmentalist who ran for president as an independent before endorsing Trump, posted a video on social media that he filmed outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters in Washington outlining his ‘Make America Healthy Again’ plan.
RFK Jr. breaks down the MAHA plan to reform USDA in 2 minutes: “We’re going to give farmers an off-ramp from the current system that destroys their health, wrecks the soil, makes Americans sick, and destroys family farms.”
1. “We’re going to REWRITE the regulations to give… pic.twitter.com/BEzk6trhmP
— Holden Culotta (@Holden_Culotta) October 14, 2024
Shortly after endorsing Trump, Kennedy suggested that Trump had offered him a job if the former president returns to the White House, but neither he nor Trump offered details.
Before the endorsement, the Kennedy campaign told the HBO show “Last Week Tonight” in August that the two had discussed “the possibility of a Cabinet position — HHS,” referring to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, among other agencies.
On Oct. 1, Kennedy posted a video filmed in front of the Environmental Protection Agency, where he said he planned to work on issues of health and the environment. Four days later, he posted that he was partnering with Trump “to transform our nation’s food, fitness, air, water, soil and medicine.”
“Our big priority will be to clean up the public health agencies like CDC, NIH, FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Those agencies have become sock puppets for the industries that they’re supposed to regulate,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy’s nonprofit group, Children’s Health Defense, currently has a lawsuit pending against a number of news organizations, among them The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy took leave from the group when he announced his run for president but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit.