Trump says RFK Jr. will be in his admin if he wins election: ‘He had a big impact’
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Trump says RFK Jr. will be in his admin if he wins election: ‘He had a big impact’
By Emily Crane
Published Oct. 18, 2024
Updated Oct. 18, 2024, 10:16 a.m. ET
Former President Donald Trump revealed Friday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have a job within his administration if the Republican candidate takes back the White House.
Trump, 78, confirmed the potential alliance with the Democratic dynasty heir when he was asked during a sit-down interview with “Fox & Friends” whose names had already been floated for top roles if he wins the election.
“He’s going to be a part of it,” the 45th president said when probed about Kennedy.
“He had a big impact because he’s very much into women’s health and health, and he’s very much into the environment, which a lot of people like.”
“People really like him,” Trump added.
Trump’s confirmation of a looming job offer came after Kennedy, 70, tweeted out a video earlier this week floating the possibility he could be called up to help with the Department of Agriculture (USDA).
“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,” Kennedy tweeted as he fired off a list of other priorities he would usher in.
“When Donald Trump gets me inside the building I’m standing outside of right now, it won’t be this way anymore,” he continued. “American agriculture will come roaring back, and so will American health.”
The former independent presidential candidate dropped his own campaign to publicly endorse Trump back in August.
Since then, the scion of the Kennedy political dynasty has repeatedly hinted that he would be given a coveted job on Trump’s team if the former commander-in-chief beats Vice President Kamala Harris come November.
Kennedy, for his part, has been plagued by scandal-filled headlines of late after it emerged that New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi confessed to having a “personal relationship” with Kennedy.
Multiple sources later described the liaison, which left Nuzzi on leave from the outlet, as a tawdry sexting tryst that began after she interviewed him last year for a profile.
Due to various controversies surrounding the son of the late attorney general and senator from New York, it is highly unlikely RFK Jr. will be nominated as a cabinet secretary, which requires Senate confirmation.
However, Trump could create a position in his administration for the Kennedy scion — similar to President Biden naming former Secretary of State John Kerry to be a special presidential envoy for climate.
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Former CDC Director Robert Redfield compares RFK Jr.’s MAHA campaign with JFK’s Moonshot
“I reflect back on his uncle in 1962 when he said that we were gonna have a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
We had no idea how to do that. We didn’t have the science to do it, we didn’t have the political will to do it, but somehow Kennedy saw that vision … and then led our nation to act.
I think we’re at the same stage for those of us that believe that making America healthy again in possible, and I think Kennedy’s passion on this issue combined with combined with a commitment from the President … this is a real opportunity.
We have to turn around what the major impact of our health system is right now, which is this enormous epidemic we have of chronic disease … I’d like to finally see us change the focus to health, and that’s why I teamed up with Kennedy.”
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