{"id":1984476,"date":"2023-07-27T18:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T22:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karl-rove-calls-desantis-appointing-rfk-jr-to-the-fda-or-cdc-a-nutty-idea\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T18:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T22:35:46","slug":"karl-rove-calls-desantis-appointing-rfk-jr-to-the-fda-or-cdc-a-nutty-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karl-rove-calls-desantis-appointing-rfk-jr-to-the-fda-or-cdc-a-nutty-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Rove deems DeSantis&#8217; choice of RFK Jr. for FDA\/CDC &#8216;crazy&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkarl-rove-calls-desantis-appointing-rfk-jr-to-the-fda-or-cdc-a-nutty-idea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1984476&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Slams Gov. Ron DeSantis\u200d for Controversial Health Agency Pick<\/h2>\n<p>During a recent interview on Fox News, former White House\u200d deputy chief of staff Karl \u200bRove criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for suggesting that he would consider appointing Robert F.\u2062 Kennedy Jr. to lead either the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2064 or the Food and Drug Administration if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">elected president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;[Kennedy] is a guy who\u2019s got \u2063incredible conspiracy\u200b theories\u200d that are just outrageous,&#8221; Rove stated, dismissing DeSantis&#8217;s hypothetical pick as &#8220;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-democrat-insane-to-allow-teachers-to-have-guns-for-classroom-defense\/\" title=\"Michigan Democrat: 'Insane' to Allow Teachers to Have Guns for Classroom Defense\">nutty idea<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rove went\u200d on \u2063to read off a list of healthcare-related beliefs held by RFK Jr., including \u200cclaims about\u200b vaccines causing autism, WiFi causing cancer, \u2062and antidepressants causing school shootings. According to \u2062Rove, Kennedy has a multitude of other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-suspends-demonetizes-one-america-news-network\/\" title=\"YouTube Suspends, Demonetizes One America News Network\">conspiracy theories<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The 2004 election was stolen as \u2064computers switched \u2062nearly a quarter million votes in Ohio from John Kerry to George\u2064 Bush \u200cand thereby gave him the\u200c election, 5G is a mass surveillance tool and the telecomms,\u2062 the \u2063telephone companies, are in on it. The CIA killed his uncle, Sirhan Sirhan didn\u2019t kill his \u2062father,&#8221; Rove revealed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When\u200d challenged by Fox News host Bill Hemmer, Rove defended his comments by suggesting that RFK\u2064 Jr. only receives\u200b attention due to his family name and the perceived weakness of President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<h3>DeSantis&#8217;s Stance on RFK Jr.<\/h3>\n<p>Gov.\u2063 DeSantis, in an interview with OutKick&#8217;s Clay \u200cTravis, acknowledged \u2063that RFK Jr.&#8217;s stance on medical issues does appeal to him. However, he also stated that \u200bthere are other areas where they would likely disagree, and he would not\u2063 consider Kennedy as his running mate if elected president.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that RFK Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karl-rove-calls-desantis-appointing-rfk-jr-to-the-fda-or-cdc-a-nutty-idea\/\" title=\"Rove deems DeSantis' choice of RFK Jr. for FDA\/CDC 'crazy'.\">recently made controversial remarks suggesting<\/a> \u200cthat COVID-19\u2064 was designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-says-media-treats-him-worse-than-donald-trump\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. claims media treats him worse than Trump.\">target specific racial groups<\/a>. While he denied being antisemitic, he expressed regret for\u200d making those comments.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click here<\/a> to visit The \u200dWashington \u200cExaminer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC or FDA leadership &#8220;a terrible idea&#8221; and criticized Kennedy&#8217;s stance on vaccines. Rove argued that appointing someone with anti-vaccine views would undermine public health efforts and jeopardize the country&#8217;s fight against diseases. He urged DeSantis to reconsider his potential choice and prioritize qualified experts who support evidence-based science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}