Both RFK Jr. and his younger brother David developed drug addictions at a young age after their father was assassinated.

Other Trump supporters who could be considered for Cabinet positions are former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and New York Representative Elise Stefanik. And although Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been a major supporter of Trump during the campaign, he may not have a formal role during his second term.

RFK Jr. has said Trump promised him “control of the public health agencies,” including the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He’s talked about cleaning up “corruption” at those agencies and reorienting them towards a chronic disease focus (in a page on his MAHA website that has since been scrubbed).

He and Trump have recited the tagline “make America healthy again” a number of times. So here is a little synopsis on how RFK Jr.—a member of the famed Democratic family—got into Trump’s circle and where his wealth comes from. It all started when ...

In an interview with NPR on Wednesday, Kennedy said Trump had already assigned him three tasks: to reduce the “corruption and conflicts” in regulatory agencies like the FDA, return those agencies to the “evidence-based science and medicine that they were once famous for,” and to end chronic disease with measurable impacts within two years.

The CDC calls the practice of adding fluoride to tap water systems one of the 10 greatest public health achievements of the last century.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pleading to voters across the United States not to vote for him if his name appears on their ballots.

Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses his plan for vaccine safety following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. CNN’s Meg Tirrell explains how the US currently monitors vaccine safety and efficacy.

One senior executive from the healthcare sector told the Financial Times his influence on policy would be “awful on a lot of levels."

"On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease," Kennedy said on social media over the weekend.

A doctor fears that an RFK Jr.-influenced Trump White House will discourage vaccination and block the release of data showing the disastrous consequences.