'Wasn’t Trump president at the time?' RFK Jr. mocked over saying US gov’t 'planned' COVID

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who President-Elect Donald Trump nominated to lead the United States Department of Health and Human Services — believes the COVID pandemic was organized by the US government.

The Bulwark's Sam Stein reported via X: "In previously unreported video, RFK Jr. said he believed the government may have planned the COVID pandemic."

Stein added: "RFK's statements raise the remarkable specter that the man who could soon lead HHS believes the department may have carried out a 'sinister' scheme to 'enslave' its own citizens—and that it was implemented under Donald Trump, the man who has chosen Kennedy for the HHS post."

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Political analyst Bakari Sellers replied: "Wasn’t Donald Trump president at the time?"

The Cut election columnist Laura Bassett wrote: "Trump was president, so this is pretty awkward

The Economist defense editor Shashank Joshi added: "A government simultaneously cunning and effective enough to have clandestinely planned and executed the pandemic, but so fat and inefficient that it requires slashing by $2trn."

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