Trump says he’ll let RFK Jr ‘do what he wants’ with ladies’s healthcare if he’s elected | EUROtoday

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Donald Trump mentioned that he’d let Robert F Kennedy Jr “do what he wants” with ladies’s healthcare if he returns to the White House.

Despite reluctance to announce an official cupboard position for RFK Jr, the previous president has continued to vow his one-time third-party presidential rival free rein over well being, meals and medicines throughout his potential second administration.

At his penultimate rally of his presidential marketing campaign in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Trump doubled down that RFK Jr – whom he colloquially calls “Bobby” – can nearly do no matter he needs with one space he’s notably keen about: ladies’s well being and wellbeing.

“Bobby’s gonna pretty much do what he wants. I want him to do something important for our country. It makes people healthier. We have obesity, we have every problem you can have. Bobby feels very strongly about it,” Trump mentioned to cheers from the gang.

“The only thing I told him though, ‘Bobby you’ve gotta do one thing, you do whatever you want you just go ahead. Work on the pesticides, work on the making…’ women’s health, he’s so into women’s health. And you know it’s really unbelievable, it’s such a passion,” Trump mentioned weaving from one subject to a different.

The former president did lay down one situation to RFK Jr, a one-time environmental lawyer and local weather change conspiracy theorist.

“I said, ‘Bobby, leave the liquid gold to me. Don’t trample on our liquid gold because we have more than any other country in the world by far. Just close your eyes and let me make this country rich as hell,’” he mentioned.

There is, nevertheless, one other liquid that Trump has instructed he would give RFK Jr management over: the nation’s consuming water provide.

RFK Jr final week revealed his plans to take away fluoride from consuming water. On Sunday, the previous president mentioned that RFK Jr’s concept “sounds OK to me” in a name with NBC News’ Dasha Burnings.

Both the Center of Disease Control and Prevention and the American Dental Association say that low-levels of the mineral is a secure strategy to stop tooth decay.

Trump additionally refused to rule out potential plans from RFK Jr – a vocal anti-vaxxer – to ban some vaccines, regardless of World Health Organization estimations that world immunization efforts have saved at the very least 154 million lives previously 50 years.

Last week, RFK Jr mentioned that Trump had “promised” him management over public well being businesses – together with the CDC and Food and Drug Administration, including that he would make his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda a precedence.

Trump’s bid to offer RFK Jr energy over ladies’s well being comes as abortion rights are a key problem on the poll this election.

The Republican presidential candidate has repeatedly taken credit score for appointing three justices to the Supreme Court that made the landmark ruling to overturn Roe v Wade in June 2022 – wiping out the constitutional proper to abortion.

In September’s presidential debate, Trump mentioned that he won’t signal a federal abortion ban into regulation, leaving it to states to resolve. Weeks earlier, he did say he would vote “no” on Florida’s six-week abortion ban modification, which is on Tuesday’s poll.

Trump has additionally tried to assert he’s a “protector” of ladies – whether or not they “like it or not.”