Glenn Greenwald: Why Washington Fears RFK Jr.

"Obviously, RFK Jr. is deeply threatening. And the reason why is so interesting. I think this is such an important thing to realize about RFK Jr. RFK Jr.'s principal focus is not on banning vaccines. In fact, as he will tell you, what most offends him is vaccine mandates, forcing people against their will to inject into their body, even vaccines that are experimental where there's been very little research, which is true for the COVID vaccine."

"I talked about earlier today at Megan's show how as a parent of young boys, pre-pubescent or just post-pubescent, I wanted to weigh the risks and benefits for them of getting the vaccine because I knew that as healthy children, they were, the risk of COVID was extremely low for them. And so the idea of injecting into their body some sort of vaccine that wasn't very well tested, that drug companies who controlled these regulatory agencies were making billions and billions and billions of dollar on was something I wasn't sure I wanted to do. And what was so infuriating was that choice was taken away from me as a parent."

"My kids had to get the vaccine because there was vaccine mandates. They couldn't go to school, they couldn't go into buildings, they couldn't go on airplanes, they couldn't do anything unless they had the vaccine card because vaccines became mandatory, even though these kids have almost no risk of COVID. And as we know, the vaccine didn't prevent them from contracting it and passing it along either. So that was a lie."

"What RFK really is focused on is the fact that all of these institutions, the FDA, the NIH, the huge apparatus, the bureaucracy that runs healthcare policy, have been captured by the major industries they're supposed to be regulating, by big food, by big agriculture, by big pharma, and by the insurance companies. And the irony of this is that this has long been a left-wing view that these gigantic industries who only care about profit are willing to make Americans sick if it means increasing their profits, have captured the government."

"And you need somebody who's opposed to these industries, who believes these industries need to be stopped and changed and radically transformed so they can't keep putting into our food supply extremely damaging substances in our food supply. And then when we get sick from them, allowing big pharma to step in and sell us the medication directly through ads that they tell us we have to take to cure our sickness, also very little oversight of that because they too have captured these regulatory agencies."

"And then when it's time to get sick, we have to turn to these insurance companies that are worst of all. And there's no control of any of this. They control the government, not the other way around. That is our case principal worldview. It has long been a left wing worldview. And to watch Democrats now, that's why Doug R.F.K. Jr. was a beloved liberal for so long. He was an environmental lawyer fighting to prevent corporate. pollution and dumping in our water supply and in our rivers."

"That's why Obama actively considered appointing him as the head of the EPA during the Obama administration. But like so many people, he hasn't changed. The politics around him have changed, and Democrats and even liberals no longer believe in opposing power centers in Washington, including corporate power centers, and that's why he's such a threat. Lawrence O'Donnell did a similar segment accusing RFK Jr. of having directly killed people. by encouraging them not to take the COVID vaccine. And as a result, they died of it."

"Do you know how harmful and destructive and fatal so many of these COVID policies ended up being things like closing schools for more than a year, locking people into their homes, lockdowns and curfews and shutdowns of everything, isolating people even further from society the more than they already were, causing massive mental health problems that led to suicides and an increase in alcoholism and drug addiction."

"Stunting the emotional and intellectual development of school-aged children by not allowing them to go to school for more than a year even though they were never at risk. Stunting and impeding the development, the brain development of very young children because people had masks on and they couldn't, their brains didn't learn how to read and adapt to other people's faces, a crucial part of early childhood development."

"Just say nothing of the fact that there is an increase in myocarditis and other health problems, not a huge risk, but an increased risk that nobody was allowed to talk about from the vaccine. These are the people who have been killing people, allowing all kinds of poisons into our food supply, turning the population obese and highly overweight at a much radically escalating level, and it's getting worse and worse, especially among children. The healthcare in the United States, the health status of people's health in the United States is disastrous. mental health and physical health."

"Because people like Catherine Sebelius have overseen and just been part of, and then profits off of a system they get everything to protect. One in which these corporate industries, the ones, the sectors that I just listed, are free to do whatever they want, including getting experimental drugs approved at breakneck speed because nobody cares to stop them"

"RFK Jr. is not gonna make polio vaccines optional. He's gonna be constrained in what he can do. And when he said there's no such thing as a safe and effective vaccine, he's explained a hundred times that what he meant by that is that we don't have enough research into these vaccines. And people like Joe Scarborough 10 years ago would have RRFK on their show. And Joe Scarborough claimed that his oldest son has a mild form of autism, Asperger's, and he believes that it's possible that it was created, it was caused by vaccines."

"And of course, people say there's no evidence that vaccines cause autism, and maybe there isn't. And RFK's counterpoint is that's because no research is being done into that question because it's been prohibited and rendered taboo. You're not even allowed to raise the question."

"So just like Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth, they're petrified of RFK Jr. The right people are petrified of him because they believe he's gonna go in and put an end to the game they've been playing at people's expenses and their benefit for decades now. And that's all the more reasons these appointees should be approved."

"And you can almost see the best appointees by the ones who scare Washington Power Mavens and media and politics and finance the most. And you can kind of see the worst appointees by the people who... get called qualified and serious by the bipartisan political class. And so you see a lot about how Washington works and their reaction to all these different appointees."