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Trump Promises Conspiracy Theorist RFK Jr. Will Run Women’s Health

What: RFK Jr. would “work on women’s health” in a second Trump administration, according to the former president. At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines. And Trump is so committed to RFK Jr. running women’s health he repeated the line at a rally tonight.

Key line: “’This is the same man who said women should be punished for their choices,’ Ms. Harris said at her rally in Phoenix on Thursday afternoon. ‘He simply does not respect the freedom of women or the intelligence of women to know what’s in their own best interest and make decisions accordingly. But we trust women.’”

Source: New York Times, Twitter // https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/us/politics/harris-trump-women-arizona-las-vegas-nevada.html

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