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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I mean, I thought the New York case was a terrible case.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher

Published June 25, 2023 | Video Starts at 1:28:05

But enough about Donald Trump. So what do you think about them indicting him for the, for the purloined classified files? It's, it's. I mean, I thought the New York case was a terrible case. Me too. And they should never have bought that case. And I said that to Cheryl. We had a little bit of a row about that. (1:28:05–1:28:11)

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Asserts that the New York case against Donald Trump was poorly constructed.

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“There's a study out there that shows that 23% of mass shooters were on, you know, SSRIs.”
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“CDC's own data show we went from 1 in 10,000 people having autism in my generation. Your generation. To 1 in every 34 in my kid's…”
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“The only medicine that never gets tested are vaccines.”
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“Within seven months, it has waned into what is called negative efficacy.”
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“You're 3.5 times more likely to get it [Covid] if you had multiple boosters.”
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“There is no advantage to the vaccine in avoiding death or serious hospitalization.”
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“Lockdowns cost our country $16 trillion, and they shifted $4 trillion in wealth from the middle class to the super rich.”
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“When we banned leaded gasoline in this country, IQs went up by about 2 points.”
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“The legacy media is fiercely, ferociously opposed to my candidacy.”
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“A poll that came out today in Forbes that showed that my favorability ratings are better by far than any of the other candidates.”
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“My father would call [Robert McNamara] every night and tell him, you got to publicly condemn the Vietnam War.”
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“Johnson sent [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s father] on two foreign missions.”
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“Indonesia was about to go to war [with the Netherlands].”
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“The CIA had tried to kill [Sukarno].”
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“Johnson sent my father [Robert F. Kennedy Sr.] there to try to settle this dispute, which he did.”
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“Half of his employees at the Justice Department were FBI agents who worked for Hoover.”
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“He actually treated Hoover as his J. Edgar Hoover as his employee, and no other attorney general had ever dared to do that.”
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“As soon as Jack was killed, it was J. Edgar Hoover who called my father and told him that his brother had been shot.”
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“Even though my father continued to be his putative boss, he was now at a direct pipeline to the White House.”
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“When they signed the civil rights bill, Johnson said, well, we've lost the south for a generation, more than a generation.”
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“He was lieutenant in the Naval Air Force out of England. He flew 42 missions which made him eligible for discharge.”
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“They had invented the first remote controlled aircraft.”
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“My Uncle Joe was supposed to parachute out just before it crossed the English Channel.”
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“The follow plane turned on the remote control and the minute they did that, the plane exploded.”
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“My uncle's body was never found.”
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“Twenty years later, my grandfather, if you mentioned his name, Joe's name, he was the oldest brother and he was kind of the golden child. My…”
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“And his eldest daughter died two years later in another air crash.”
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“Something happened to liberals, to our fellow liberals. Yes, we're on that. And whatever was accelerated, amplified during the pandemic.”
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“Government agencies [are] transformed into sock puppets for the industries they're supposed to regulate.”
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“Probably 20% of my environmental cases [were] against federal and State agencies who were doing sweetheart deals with the industries they…”
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“CDC had been telling people for many, many years that injuries were one in a million.”
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“The reason the Vaccine act was passed that gave immunity from liability to these companies is because they said the vaccines could not be…”
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“CDC for many years has said vaccines saved millions and millions of lives.”
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“CDC has studied that issue and their verdict on it was that that is not true.”
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“There's been lawsuits. The Columbine lawsuit, which was settled. There was five kids who sued because, you know, the shooter was on SSRIs.”
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“And the serotonin inhibitors have black box warnings on them that says suicidal and homicidal ideation.”
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“We're the only country in the world that uses this much, you know, antidepressant SSRIs.”
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“Countries like Switzerland have almost as many or comparable numbers of guns that we do. And the last mass shooting they've had was 21 years…”
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“EPA did a study. Congress said to EPA, what year did the epidemic start? EPA said it's a red line. It happened 1989.”
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“There are over 100 studies that show autism is caused by vaccines.”
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“I have over 450 studies summarized, and I have 1400 citations.”
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“Every medicine is required to do placebo controlled trials.”
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“Anthony Fauci has said eight years for vaccine [testing].”
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“The Cleveland Clinic did a study of 51,000 employees.”
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“The vaccine works for about two months, and then it wanes precipitously.”
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“Democrats prior to the Affordable Care act were reluctant to take pharmaceutical money.”
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“After the Affordable Care act, it became permissible for Democrats to take pharmaceutical money.”
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“The Obama administration made a deal with the pharmaceutical industry to support the bill.”
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“Today I believe that Democrats are getting more money from pharma than Republicans.”
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“Our independence. My biggest group, my biggest cohort is independence. And then I have a lot of Republicans.”
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“For 30 years, I was the only environmentalist going on Fox News.”
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“The lockdowns while [Trump] was president created a billionaire a day and, you know, and bankrupted. I mean, he shut down 3.3 million…”
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“When I sued Monsanto, I had experts from Yale, from Harvard and Stanford. And Monsanto had experts from Yale, Stanford, and Harvard.”
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“If you're drinking from a, a water supply that has a lot of algae in it, chlorine can be very dangerous because it produces the interaction…”
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“And they should never have bought that case.”
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“You want to avoid the fact that the United States of America politicians are weaponizing the judicial system to hurt their opponents.”
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“A judge allowed the penetration of the attorney-client privilege [in an important case].”
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“Preclude him from holding the White House, because there's only, I think, three qualifications.”
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“I was suing the Navy for bombing the island of Vieques, which had caused all kinds of environmental problems.”
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“I was representing the mayor and 10,000 people on the island [of Vieques].”
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“Sirhan was involved in the murder of my father, but he did not fire the shots that killed my father.”
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“Sir Ann himself could not have killed my father. And that's what Thomas Noguchi, who is the coroner, [said].”
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“Sirhan fired two shots at my father. He was five feet away.”
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“Sirhan now was pointing the gun away from my father and fired six more shots.”
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“My father was shot four times from behind.”
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“The real shooter was behind my father. He was a man called Eugene Dan Sasser, who was a security guard who worked for Lockheed.”
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“All of the shots had an uphill trajectory. And all of them...were contact shots.”
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“The autopsy was an exquisite autopsy. It's called the perfect autopsy.”
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“There were 77 eyewitnesses who saw that Sirhan was never behind my father.”
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“The police did not confiscate the gun that night.”
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“The attorney for Johnny Roselli, the mobster who was implicated in John Kennedy's assassination in Dallas five years earlier and was later…”
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“The lawyer got blamed for it. So he himself was under Federal investigation and was about to get disbarred and he then ended up representing…”
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“The bullets that killed my father were different than the bullets came from a different gun than the bullets that killed other people or…”
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