Trump praised RFK Jr. for his decades-long advocacy for health
Investigating the massive increase in chronic diseases among Americans will be one of the top priorities of a new Trump administration, the former president said at a rally in Arizona on Friday.
Donald Trump was joined on stage by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who threw his full endorsement behind him after dropping out of the presidential race earlier on Friday.
As the two men stood on stage together, Trump praised RFK Jr. for his decades of work on environmentalism and health, and said that he would establish a presidential commission into chronic diseases, something he promised to do when RFK Jr. first announced his candidacy in 2023.
“Nobody’s done more” than RFK Jr. to “advocate for the health of our families and children,” Trump said.
“Millions and millions of Americans who want clean air, clean water, and a healthy nation have concerns about toxins in our environment and pesticides in our food. That’s why today I’m repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with Bobby to investigate what is causing the decades-long increase in chronic health problems and childhood diseases,” he added.
ITS REALLY HAPPENING‼️
Trump Announces he will Establish a Panel of Experts to to work with RFK JR to Investigate and Remedy the Chronic Disease Epidemic in Children!
THIS IS SOOOOO HUGE!!!!!! ???
MIRACLE!!!! pic.twitter.com/PVuxG6B5Xq— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) August 24, 2024
Earlier in the day, during his announcement that he was officially ending his campaign, RFK Jr. pledged that he would work with the Trump administration to “make America healthy again.”
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“We will make Americans healthy again… within four years, America will be healthy.” pic.twitter.com/Fqn4dF1pYb
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He said that four more years of Democratic rule would “complete the consolidation of corporate and neocon power, and our children will be the ones that suffer most.”
RFK Jr. described watching a generation of children grow up “damaged” as a result of environmental pollution.
“For 19 years I prayed, every morning, that God would put me in a position to end this calamity. The chronic-disease crisis was one of my primary reasons for running for president, along with ending the censorship and the Ukraine war.”
RFK Jr. also revealed that he had attempted to speak with Kamala Harris before making his decision, but he was rebuffed.
“Vice president Harris decline to meet or even speak with me,” he said.
He added that although there are “still issues and approaches upon which we continue to have very serious differences,” he and Trump are “aligned with each other on other key issues, like ending the Forever Wars, ending the childhood disease epidemics, securing the border, protecting freedom of speech, unravelling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies, getting the US intelligence agency is out of the business of propagandizing and censoring and surveilling Americans, and interfering with our elections.”
