Cabinet Official Claims Trump Allows Things That Would Have Stunned Previous Administrations

There are a lot of people in the Trump cabinet who, for various reasons, would likely not be in the cabinet of another president of either party. And one of those is Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who has had a series of scandals of different varieties a mile long.

This week, Kennedy talked in a speech about the freedom he’s given as a member of Trump’s cabinet.

“It’s a joy to work for him because he lets me do stuff that I don’t think anybody else would ever let me do,” Kennedy said this week at a Heritage Foundation event, hosted by NJ.com.

“I think he’s probably the most business-friendly president we’ve had,” Kennedy said. “He admires business people more than anybody. He loves them. But he will not tolerate overreach, and he doesn’t care about vested interest, and he doesn’t care about, you know, offending powerful people.”

It’s pretty jarring coming from Kennedy, who has spent most of his career as a liberal lawyer who often criticized and sued big business.

RFK Jr: Trust the experts, that’s not a thing. Trusting the experts is not a feature of democracy, and it’s not a feature of science. pic.twitter.com/t52qhtROvu

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“We were told by the (Biden) administration to ‘trust the experts.’ That’s not a thing,” Kennedy said in the Monday speech. “Trusting the experts is not a feature of democracy, and it’s not a feature of science. It’s a feature of religion and totalitarianism, but not of democracy.”

Kennedy, however, is not the only Trump cabinet member drawing controversy. This week, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is under fire for his appearance in newly released Jeffrey Epstein documents.

Per The New York Times, Lutnick admitted this week that he visited Epstein’s island, with his family, in 2012, which is both after Epstein’s criminal conviction, and years after Lutnick had claimed to have no longer associated with the late convicted sex criminal.

‘The correspondence between the two men and the visit to the island came to light in the Justice Department’s recently released files from the investigation of Mr. Epstein,” the Times reported. “The files also contain documents showing that Mr. Epstein expressed an interest in meeting Mr. Lutnick’s nanny. Mr. Lutnick said Tuesday that he did not know if the nanny had met Mr. Epstein, adding that he ‘had no idea what that was about.'”

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