Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy
Jr. addressed the nation’s food and drug regulators today, warning against “deep state” interests and offering at times confusing remarks about intellectual disabilities.
The secretary, who a day earlier had announced that his agency would find the causes of autism by September in a “massive testing and research effort,” spoke for about 40 minutes at the Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters in White Oak, Maryland.
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railed against the “deep state” in the federal government, nearly two weeks after HHS laid off thousands of federal health workers.
“President Trump always talks about the deep state, you know, and the media disparages him and says that he’s paranoid. But the deep state is real,” Linking Words
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said. “It’s not, you know, just it’s not George Soros and Bill Gates and a bunch of nefarious individuals sitting together in a room and plotting, you know, the destruction of humanity.”
It’s more insidious than that, he said: “There are institutional pressures that affect every institution that’s created by human beings.”
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continued, suggesting that certain studies into environmental toxins and allergies are not pursued because of powerful groups’ financial interests. “I want to tell you, we’re not going to pay attention to that anymore.”Use synonyms
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