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The ‘experts’ who enabled the rise of RFK Jr.

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The nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be secretary of health and human services in the second Trump administration has horrified “experts.” A left-wing Democrat who admires the late Venezuelan Marxist dictator Hugo Chávez, hates big business, rails against the ultra-processed food that Donald Trump likes to eat and wants climate skeptics jailed. 

But in the UK magazine this week Matt Ridley explains how the experts who now bash him have contributed in putting him where is, and that official Covid misinformation has contributed to his rise. So what could he do in office? Will he release these Covid files? Matt joins Freddy to discuss. 

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