RFK Jr. Lied About Famous Samoan Trip During Confirmation Hearings, New Letter Indicates

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A recently published missive sent from wellness and quality services caput Robert F. Kennedy to the premier curate of Samoa earlier his ill-fated travel to the federation successful 2019 shows he did intend to meddle successful the country's usage of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, contempt telling Congress during legislature hearings past twelvemonth the sojourn had “nothing to do pinch vaccines."

The trip, 1 of RFK Jr.’s astir well-known controversies, has been linked to a bales outbreak that sickened much than 5,700 group and killed 83 successful the span of 3 and a half months and Kennedy has been accused of bolstering Samoa’s anti-vaccine activists astatine the time.

He many times testified nether oath during confirmation hearings that his travel was unrelated to vaccines, but the caller missive explicitly states he wanted to study the usage of the MMR vaccine successful the Pacific land federation and uses the words “vaccine” aliases “vaccination” 8 times.

This is simply a processing communicative and will beryllium updated.