What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?
Supposedly, one to Make America Healthy Again
AS DONALD Trump returns to power, several colourful characters surround him. One is Elon Musk. Another is Robert F. Kennedy junior, a vaccine-sceptic, conspiracy-theorist and excommunicated member of the Kennedy clan, who says he has “so many skeletons in my closet that if they could vote, I could be king of the world”.
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