Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is distancing himself from his anti-vaccine work as he seeks to become the leader of the nation’s top health agency under President Donald Trump, according to government ethics documents released Wednesday.

Kennedy has pulled in roughly $10 million in income from his work over the past year, which includes speaking fees, leading an anti-vaccine nonprofit and legal fees, government ethics forms filed for his nomination show. He has millions of dollars more tied up in investments and other assets.

If confirmed, he has promised to stop collecting fees on some of his vaccine lawsuits involving the U.S. government.

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    Can’t wash that filth off. He wanted to pull covid vaccines right in the middle of the pandemic. Effective they were, and not the whatever-the-hell he believed/represented. Fuck this guy. He’s a danger to our health.

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      I don’t know how people are snowballed into believing his drivel. I have an extremely intelligent friend what loves what RFK says. I’m convinced it’s because he hated the inconvenience of getting the shots.

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        I know people who like that he’s on board with shrooms and other recreational drugs as alternative treatments. Which I can honestly understand, given all the research that says stuff like shrooms does offer some promise in some mental health therapies. It’s ridiculous an agency like the DEA can dictate what drug options are available to people.

        But other than that, RFK Jr is a fucking idiot and should absolutely not be allowed to head our health agencies.

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          Dude. I grow shrooms and make DMT. I give them to my friend I’m talking about all the time. That’s not his issue.

          He’s mega wealthy married to a wife who has early era Microsoft money. They live in a castle-like house in Capitol Hill, Seattle, near Volunteer Park. (in short, entitled af). I’ve watched him morph from a normal dude to this over the course of a decade.

          It’s hard to give up on friends. But I’ve slowly been letting this one go. At least he didn’t vote MAGA. The slimmest glimmers of quality.

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            He’s morphed into what exactly? Being anti-vaxxers? I fortunately don’t know any anti-vaxxers personally, but I know plenty of MAGA idiots. Even those idiots tend to support vaccines, though. I just truly don’t understand anti-vaxxers, they’re the dumbest of the dumb.

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    I don’t know why it took me until this thumbnail to realize it, but this guy always looks like a zombie.