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CousinIT

(10,760 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 09:59 AM Jan 15

RFK Jr. Lied About Making $1.2 Million Pushing Anti-Vax Crap

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-admits-he-didnt-come-clean-on-anti-vax-fortune/

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars he made from his anti-vax crusade, Donald Trump’s transition team has admitted to the Daily Beast.

Trump’s pick for health secretary previously said his career as the founder, chairman and general counsel of the nonprofit Children’s Health Defense was “unpaid” and “the opposite of a profit motive.”

In personal financial disclosure forms required for all presidential candidates, Kennedy initially reported that he had earned $731,470.53 in 2022 and 2023. (In the summer of 2023, he reported making $515,960 the previous year from CHD; in the summer of 2024, he reported making $215,510.53.)

But documents obtained by the Daily Beast show that Kennedy—after being nominated by Trump for his Cabinet—then quietly amended those forms to disclose that he had actually earned far more from his anti-vaccine nonprofit: a total of $1.2 million.

“Bobby’s [personal financial disclosure] amounts were reported incorrectly,” a Trump transition team official told the Daily Beast in response to questions about the new documents.
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marble falls

(62,802 posts)
2. Oopsey. After a while, one grocery bag of twenties starts looking like a bag of fives. I'm sure the average American ...
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 10:06 AM
Jan 15

... can relate.

UTUSN

(73,091 posts)
7. Knr - question to ask him, ""You've changed your positions so drastically to get this job,
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 06:47 PM
Jan 15

what are your intentions, why do you want it so much?"




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