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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “President Trump wanted to end the lockdowns.”

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

JUST IN: Sparks Fly When RFK Jr. Is Pressed On Vaccines, Pandemic Prevention During CNN Interview

Published August 2, 2026 | Video Starts at 01:42

I mean, we have, as you say, we have the highest chronic disease burden in the world. But Anthony Fauci was mismanaging the COVID pandemic and was doing it under the Biden administration. President Trump wanted to end the lockdowns. And in fact, in Anthony Fauci's diaries, he. He talks about how President Trump is calling him every day, trying to get him to reopen the country. (01:42–01:45)

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“Lockdowns shut down 3.5 million businesses in our country with no due process, no just compensation.”
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“We have the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on earth.”
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“COVID 19 pandemic and many other global pandemics that we have have come from gain of function research.”
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“The RSV epidemic that we have that is the biggest killer of kids in this country today came from these kind of experiments.”
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“The Lyme disease almost certainly came from this kind of research.”
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“Mexico has 15 times the amount of measles per capita that we have.”
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“The Mennonites have not vaccinated since 1796, since Edward Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine.”
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“None of the eight vaccines that are administered during the first six months of life have ever been studied for relationship to autism.”
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“Anthony Fauci was mismanaging the COVID pandemic and was doing it under the Biden administration.”
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“He [the President] certainly does [want studies probing the link between vaccines and autism].”
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“There were ICUs that were empty all over the country, including in New York at the height [of the pandemic].”
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“If we had listened to those doctors during the COVID pandemic, we would have saved potentially millions of lives.”
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“During COVID we completely dismantled our constitutional rights.”
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“Canada has four times the amount of measles.”
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“England has two times the amount of measles.”
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“The reason we're having a measles outbreak [is] because of the COVID lockdowns.”
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“More children are going to die from measles because of these lockdowns than Covid.”
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“We have stopped the outbreaks at record speed in South Carolina, in Texas, in Utah and Virginia.”
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“The communities that are suffering from measles are almost all religious communities that just don't vaccinate.”
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“I've never questioned the efficacy of the MMR vaccine.”
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“A measles vaccine is effective. It stops measles in about 97% of the cases.”
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“We're doing all those things, and that's one of the ways that we found Tylenol. There's 73 studies out there.”
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“The Institute of Medicine dismissed those two studies because they were based on CDC's database.”
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“The studies that you're referring to are all for one vaccine, the MMR vaccine or one ingredient, Thimerizer.”
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“Your statement that this has been studied is not true.”
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“Show me one of the studies that's been done on the first eight vaccines during the first six months of life. You will not find them.”
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“Because that is one of the vaccines that has been studied.”
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“It's the only one that has been studied.”
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“Look at the National Academy of Science most recent report.”
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“They've both gone through extensive interagency process. I'm very confident that we will get them both out there within probably a month.”
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