Invoice Maher made a daring declaration about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies — and the Actual Time With Invoice Maher host didn’t mince phrases along with his blunt evaluation.
On Friday, September 5, the late-night host, 69, briefly talked about RFK Jr., 71, throughout his opening monologue recapping current information about President Donald Trump.
“The knives are out for Bobby Kennedy, and I gotta say, I’m with the knives,” Maher confessed.
Later, through the panelist phase of Actual Time, Maher mirrored on Kennedy’s three-hour Senate listening to on September 4. The well being secretary struggled to defend main vaccine modifications that restrict entry to the COVID-19 vaccine and the firing of CDC director Susan Monarez underneath his management.
“I personally discover this very disappointing as a result of I’m the one who was sympathetic to what [Kennedy] was making an attempt to do,” Maher informed the panel. “I stated, ‘Lastly, we have now a man in there who cares about these things.’ However he’s additionally simply nutty.”
Earlier this week, 1,000 present and former U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention workers signed a letter calling for Kennedy to resign and accusing him of appointing “political ideologues.”
“He’s simply too nutty,” Maher reiterated.. “He simply doesn’t hear. I imply, he simply is. And nothing ever — I name it pendulumism — nothing ever stops within the center.”
He continued, “OK, this wanted a housecleaning, the CDC. However to fireplace all 17 of the highest individuals? Now you don’t have that voice in there in any respect. You simply have your voice.”
To conclude his ideas on RFK Jr., Maher declared, “It’s simply, he’s received to go.”
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