CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings laid out exactly what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should say to shore up support for his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration — and added an explanation as to why so many Americans are no longer willing to simply trust the so-called medical experts.
During a recent appearance on “CNN NewsNight,” Jennings addressed concerns — which have been shut down by Trump — that Kennedy might be taking the counsel of vaccine skeptics and could potentially limit access to things like the polio vaccine.
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Best argument RFK can make for his HHS nomination: let’s make science actual science again. During COVID, “the science” became a religion and millions of kids and people suffered for it. My latest on @cnn. pic.twitter.com/jrEAgs0lLk
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 17, 2024
“I think there’s a number of things going on today,” Jennings began, saying that he believed Kennedy had struck the right tone while on Capitol Hill when he told senators that he supported the continued use of the polio vaccine specifically.
“The boss, Trump, laid down the marker. ‘We’re not touching the polio vaccine.’ This was a frenzy over the last few days,” Jennings continued. “This was totally put to bed today, that’s number one.”
“Number two, if I were in their shoes, I would just simply say, ‘Everything we do is going to be based on science and evidence-based decision making, because that’s all anybody really wants to hear,” Jennings continued. “If I were further advising RFK and Donald Trump on vaccines or anything else, I would say, ‘I’d like for science to go back to being science.’ Because during COVID, during the last few years, science became religion.”
“You know, when we’re putting people up on pedestals and making prayer candles with their image on it and sewing pillows with their face on it, that’s no longer science, it became a religion,” Jennings said in a clear jab at Dr. Anthony Fauci. “So if I were in their shoes, I would say, ‘Science is going to rule. Evidence-based decision making is going to rule. And that’s how we’re going to make all of our decisions.”
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Jennings later pivoted to explain why Americans had reached the point where they were unwilling to simply take the word of experts.
“I also think it’s important for us to remember why are we here, at all, in this moment where people are questioning the public health regime,” he continued. “It is all out of COVID. Everything comes from COVID, things we were told that weren’t true, things about the vaccine that we were told that weren’t true. This has caused people — in the past, people might have just accepted this, sight unseen. Now, I think it’s legitimate for Americans to say, ‘Are we being told the absolute truth by the supposed experts?’”
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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings laid out exactly what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should say to shore up support for his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration — and added an explanation as to why so many Americans are no longer willing to simply trust the so-called medical experts.
During a recent appearance on “CNN NewsNight,” Jennings addressed concerns — which have been shut down by Trump — that Kennedy might be taking the counsel of vaccine skeptics and could potentially limit access to things like the polio vaccine.
WATCH:
Best argument RFK can make for his HHS nomination: let’s make science actual science again. During COVID, “the science” became a religion and millions of kids and people suffered for it. My latest on @cnn. pic.twitter.com/jrEAgs0lLk
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 17, 2024
“I think there’s a number of things going on today,” Jennings began, saying that he believed Kennedy had struck the right tone while on Capitol Hill when he told senators that he supported the continued use of the polio vaccine specifically.
“The boss, Trump, laid down the marker. ‘We’re not touching the polio vaccine.’ This was a frenzy over the last few days,” Jennings continued. “This was totally put to bed today, that’s number one.”
“Number two, if I were in their shoes, I would just simply say, ‘Everything we do is going to be based on science and evidence-based decision making, because that’s all anybody really wants to hear,” Jennings continued. “If I were further advising RFK and Donald Trump on vaccines or anything else, I would say, ‘I’d like for science to go back to being science.’ Because during COVID, during the last few years, science became religion.”
“You know, when we’re putting people up on pedestals and making prayer candles with their image on it and sewing pillows with their face on it, that’s no longer science, it became a religion,” Jennings said in a clear jab at Dr. Anthony Fauci. “So if I were in their shoes, I would say, ‘Science is going to rule. Evidence-based decision making is going to rule. And that’s how we’re going to make all of our decisions.”
CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
Jennings later pivoted to explain why Americans had reached the point where they were unwilling to simply take the word of experts.
“I also think it’s important for us to remember why are we here, at all, in this moment where people are questioning the public health regime,” he continued. “It is all out of COVID. Everything comes from COVID, things we were told that weren’t true, things about the vaccine that we were told that weren’t true. This has caused people — in the past, people might have just accepted this, sight unseen. Now, I think it’s legitimate for Americans to say, ‘Are we being told the absolute truth by the supposed experts?’”
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