Good news friends RFK Jr. clears key Senate committee, moving Trump's nominee to be the nation's top health official, moved closer toward confirmation Tuesday, with the Senate Finance Committee voting along party lines to send his controversial nomination to the full Senate.
By a 14-13 vote, the committee voted to advance Kennedy, who has faced intense scrutiny over his past anti-vaccine statements and questions about how he would lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The key swing vote putting Kennedy over the edge was Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., a physician who fell in line with the Republican majority and voted for Kennedy despite raising reservations about Kennedy's position on vaccines.
Cassidy, who is up for reelection in 2026, announced his support shortly before the vote in a post on X, saying he had "very intense conversations" with Kennedy and The White House over the weekend. "With the serious commitments I’ve received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on like healthy foods and a pro-American agenda, I will vote yes," Cassidy said.
The vote came after Kennedy was grilled by Democrats during two days of committee hearings last week. He struggled to account for past statements he made questioning vaccines and conspiracy theories he's pushed and stumbled over questions about Medicare and Medicaid. Democrats continued on the attack saying “I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., “He’s unqualified, and I dare say everybody here knows it.”
Outside of Trump's Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, Republican senators have stayed united behind the president's Cabinet picks, but Kennedy's nomination as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has presented the biggest test yet. It's unclear whether Kennedy has the votes for passage in the Senate, but at least four Republican senators would likely have to vote against Kennedy for his nomination to fail given Republican's 53-47 majority.
Ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said Democrats are not done trying to block Kennedy’s confirmation, despite Tuesday’s notable setback. “This fight is going to go on. And I’m going to pull out all the stops,” Wyden said, without elaborating what those stops are and acknowledging that Republicans have been reticent to alienate themselves from Trump over his Cabinet nominees.
“Obviously it is a challenging political time,” Wyden said, but, “the fight is not over. We can continue this on the floor of the Senate." Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a polio survivor, has raised concerns over Kennedy's position on vaccines. And Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine have showed a willingness to buck Trump when it comes to his nominees when they voted against the Hegseth pick.
Yet even if all three were to vote against Kennedy's nomination, Vice President JD Vance would be in position to cast a tie-breaking vote, like he did with Hegseth, if at least one more Republican senator didn't also vote against Kennedy. Kennedy's fate in the Finance Committee came down to Cassidy, R-La., a physician, who had talked openly about being torn over Kennedy because of his views on vaccines.
But the vote also posed tough political considerations for Cassidy, who has already drawn a Republican primary challenger in 2026 after voting to convict Trump during the president's second impeachment in 2021. "I've been struggling with your nomination," Cassidy bluntly told Kennedy during last week's hearings. "Does a 71-year old man who spent decades criticizing vaccines and was financially vested in finding fault with vaccines, can he change his attitudes and approach now that he'll have the most important position influencing vaccine policy in the United States?"
Democrats have attacked Kennedy for a trail of controversial past statements including casting doubt about vaccines, comparing the CDC's work to "Nazi death camps," saying it "highly likely" Lyme disease was a military bioweapon and concerns about antidepressants.
BREAKING: The stocks of both vaccine manufacturers, Pfizer and Moderna, immediately crashed after RFK Jr.'s nomination advanced toward the Senate. pic.twitter.com/L1o28ipxrl
There is human garbage and than there are people like this lowlife dirt bag pedophile swamp demon YouTuber James Charles has admitted in the past of sending sexually explicit messages to two 16-year-old boys. Yes he's a complete and uttler pedophile dogshit moron and he tried to defend his actions by saying "I fully understand my actions and how they are wrong," the 21-year-old influencer said in a video posted to his YouTube channel. Those allegations against Charles first emerged on social media earlier in February 2021, the influencer who has 25 million subscribers to his YouTube channel was accused by one teenager of grooming, which Charles denied, saying he flirted with the person because he believed the boy to be 18.
Charles had denied previous accusations, but in video, titled "Holding myself accountable", he admitted wrongdoing. He says there were two incidents one last year and one more recently where he came to be aware that the person he was exchanging messages with was underage. "These conversations should have never happened," Charles said in the 14-minute video. He admitted he could have searched for them on other social media platforms and found their real ages.
He also publicly apologised to the boys and said he would take time away from posting on social media to "educate" himself about these issues.
The scandal is not the first time the influencer had faced controversy as back as 2019, he was accused of using "fame and money to try to manipulate someone's sexuality", which he also denied which is a pattern for this one. When addressing why he has been "reckless" in past relationships, he said it's because he's "desperate"... Which to the rest of us means "LOSER" but in a video he made addressing the 2019 accusation, Charles made a promise to be more careful moving forward. Yeah I don't trust him because remember these are only the stuff we find out he done. But I wonder how many times has he done this and never been reported or him called out on it. But with this sort of stuff you would think this fruitcake would tone it down and not want to well make a testicle out of himself but no he's at it again as he's rescently went at RFK Jr for the way he speaks and mocked the man in a video call or some instagram post. Check this moron out and what he said about RFK Jr.
What is sad about this to me is that these leftist and liberals like this dork claim to be the party of unity and love and happiness and yes you see nothing but bitter un happy dildo loving morons like James Charles here. This guy deserves 2 good bitch slaps! First for being who and what he is, and Second for saying this dumb shit on video and actually posting it.
We could use less morons like this one breathing our air, and consuming our water, and other resources. May the forces that control the universe send James Charles all the bad Karma he deserves for mocking a great man like RFK Jr.
“NOT A Lone Gunman” Trump Declassifies JFK Files - Was It a Mob Job?
The assassination of President John F Kennedy reverberated throughout the world as the tragic loss of a charismatic, energetic young leader. Known for his inspiring speeches and support for civil rights, his murder has spawned a library of conspiracies all about who could have benefited from it. Was it the Soviets? The CIA? The Mob?! Well, the truth may be about to come out, as Donald Trump has signed orders for the declassification of government reports on the JFK, RFK and MLK Jr assassinations. Conspiracy theorists and their detractors alike are anxious to see what these secretive files may reveal.
For an exploration of all possibilities, Piers Morgan brings together author Jefferson Morley, former capo for the Colombo crime family Michael Franzese and former CIA officer and host of 'The President's Daily Brief' Mike Baker.
When Will the Declassified JFK Files Be Released Publicly? Donald Trump has delivered on one of his campaign pledges for the conspiratorial-minded, signing an executive order on January 23 to release the remaining classified files related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. “The continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue,” the order reads. Trump was more succinct as he signed the order in Sharpie. “Everything will be revealed,” he said. Polls have long shown that a majority of Americans do not believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Kennedy’s death.
Trump’s order which also requires the release of documents related to the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations provides a time frame and guidelines for the declassification process. But how much about the assassination is really left in the cabinets of the intelligence community? Below is everything we know about the JFK files and how we got here. The executive order demands that the attorney general and director of national intelligence “present a plan within 15 days for the full and complete release” of the JFK assassination records.
Next, they will “immediately review” the records related to the RFK and MLK Jr. assassinations and present a plan for their release within 45 days. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we will see these documents in a matter of weeks. The timeline is for the Justice Department and director of national intelligence to issue a plan. The actual process could take far longer. For one, both departments have a lot of other priorities under the new president. Plus both departments are currently being led by acting heads, as Trump’s nominees (Pam Bondi for attorney general and Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence) await Senate confirmation. Experts also say that if a total release of JFK documents is actually coming, it will take a long time for the intelligence community to complete a review process.
Larry Scnhapf, an attorney who has sued the government to release JFK files, told ABC News that “if they’re going to do a substantive [document by document] review, then it’s going to be a while before the records are released.” In 1992, after Oliver Stone’s conspiratorial JFK revived the public’s and lawmakers’ interest in the assassination, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which required the National Archives and Records Administration to collect all files related to the assassination and multiple investigations into it with a plan to release previously withheld documents in 2017.
But as the deadline loomed during Trump’s first term, the intelligence community lobbied him to stall, claiming it needed more time to complete reviews. Trump then essentially kicked the can to his successor. Biden ordered the release of 13,000 documents in 2022 before issuing a “final certification” in 2023, in which he released thousands more documents but left an estimated 4,000 withheld.
Since the JFK records act was passed in 1992, 320,000 documents have been reviewed and 99 percent of those have been released, per NARA. But the Biden administration left 2,140 documents fully or partially redacted. Another 2,500 docs were withheld for other reasons, like court-ordered seals of restrictions from individuals who donated their papers. Historians, for the most part, do not expect any bombshells from the remaining papers. But authors who study the JFK assassination expect that will not stop those who believe there were multiple gunmen from further speculation.
The Warren Commission, the FBI, and various governmental probes concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. But in 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations determined there was a “high probability” that two gunmen fired at JFK. “The Committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy,” the lawmakers wrote in their findings.
Like Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaigned on a promise to release all files related to the assassinations of his uncle and father. Naturally, he supports his prospective boss’s decision. “I think it’s a great move because they need to have more transparency in our government and he’s keeping his promise to have the government tell the truth to the American people about everything,” Kennedy told reporters on the day the order was announced.
In a statement, Kennedy added that the decision was a step against the government secrecy that he believes has undermined the country for decades. “The 60-year strategy of lies and secrecy, disinformation, censorship, and defamation employed by Intel officials to obscure and suppress troubling facts about JFK’s assassination has provided the playbook for a series of subsequent crises the MLK and RFK assassinations, Vietnam, 9/11, the Iraq war and COVID that have each accelerated the subversion of our exemplary democracy by the Military/Medical Industrial Complex and pushed us further down the road toward totalitarianism,” he wrote in a post on X.
OK So rumor has it that following a controversy filled campaign that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ran and his poll numbers compared to Trump are reportedly planning to suspend their presidential bid. He is considering endorsing former President Donald Trump and reportedly hopeful that he might secure the position of Trump’s health secretary if he wins. Kennedy was an environmental lawyer known for his work cleaning up the Hudson River with a storied last name who in recent years has become known for spreading conspiracy theories about medicine, including vaccines and anti-depressants. He used the popularity he gained as an anti-vaxxer during the pandemic to briefly challenge President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary before announcing an independent bid for president in October 2023.
He had been seen as a potential spoiler for both candidates, given his connection to the Democratic Kennedy dynasty as well as his embrace of the anti-establishment and anti-vaccine views held by certain segments of the GOP. He was polling around 10 percent nationally for the better part of 2024, and even higher in some swing state polls. But he struggled to get on the ballot in many states, though his campaign maintains that he has secured enough signatures to do so in all but Kentucky, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and Wyoming. And after Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, he seemed to hold less sway among voters who were turned off by Biden. His poll numbers consequently cratered to under 5 percent.
Despite Kennedy’s flagging national numbers, polling suggests his exit from the race could still help Trump, with whom he’s become decidedly more cozy in recent months. Trump wouldn’t have to win a lot of Kennedy’s potential voters to make a difference in key swing states; if the race is as close as it was in 2020, Trump gaining even a fraction of a percent from Kennedy could make the difference. Trump probably has the most to gain from Kennedy dropping out. Kennedy has increasingly endeared himself to Republican voters while struggling to get the same support among Democrats and independents. And polls conducted in recent months, including since Biden dropped out of the race, suggest that Trump would pick up more of Kennedy’s supporters.
Any margin would likely be small but potentially significant and his endorsement of the GOP leader Donald Trump could be the tide turning moment in this election. The Republicans tend to see Kennedy more favorably than Democrats, and those with favorable views toward him tend to have more favorable opinions of Trump than of Harris, according to a July AP-NORC poll conducted before Biden dropped out. Several national polls conducted since Harris became the presumptive nominee have also tested a race between Harris, Trump, and Kennedy, as well as a two-way race between Harris and Trump. Trump tends to get a bigger bump than Harris when Kennedy is excluded.
In an August Reuters/Ipsos poll of registered voters, for instance, Harris received 42 percent support, Trump 37 percent, and Kennedy 4 percent, while 15 percent supported another candidate, weren’t sure who they would support, or weren’t sure if they would vote at all. But when voters were pushed to select either Trump or Harris, 49 percent backed Harris and 47 percent Trump a 10 percentage point boost for Trump.
Trump had a similar edge with Kennedy voters in a July Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll. In a three-way contest, Harris earned 44 percent support, Trump 47 percent, and Kennedy 10 percent. In a head-to-head poll, Harris earned 48 percent and Trump 52 percent. It may seem like the advantage Trump gains when Kennedy is out of the picture is relatively small. But Biden won in 2020 by exceedingly narrow margins in six key battleground states; in Arizona, it was by less than 11,000 votes. On the margin, Kennedy’s supporters could make a difference, depending on where they’re distributed. In Arizona, for example, Kennedy is still polling at about 6 percent, according to The Hill’s polling average.
Of course, he might not actually win that large a vote share if he decides to stay in the race; third-party candidates tend to poll much better than they actually perform on Election Day, when their supporters are confronted with the reality that their preferred candidate won’t win. But that vote share would have been more than enough to have swung the 2020 results in the other direction.
The same is true in other swing states, where polling suggests a very tight race. An early August New York Times/Siena survey of registered voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin found Harris leading Trump 46 percent to 43 percent when respondents were given all third-party candidates to choose from. When asked to pick between just Harris and Trump, the gap tightened to 48 and 46 percent, respectively. Those states are likely to be key, given their high electoral college vote count and in most scenarios, Harris would need all three to win. Harris’s entry into the race likely limits the impact of Kennedy’s exit While RFK Jr.s supporters may still be able to make an important impact on the margins, their power to drag the Democratic nominee’s polling down seems to have diminished substantially.
Before Harris became the nominee, there was a much larger than usual number of disaffected voters who didn’t like either Biden or Trump and just wanted someone anyone as an alternative. A theoretical no-name candidate as an alternative to Biden and Trump got about 10 percent in Ipsos polling conducted earlier this year.
Kennedy provided an alternative for a while. But when Harris stepped into the POTUS 2024 picture, that undermined his appeal at least among Democrats. “There were some wavering Democratic voters who just thought Biden was too old, or they didn’t like him, and Harris is just a more appealing candidate for those kinds of people,” said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Kondik said it’s possible that Biden may have ended up winning back those voters anyway if he had stayed in the race and had a typical post-Democratic National Convention bump. But at this point, Kondik said, he would not be surprised if the third-party vote share in the election ends up being about 2 percent of the electorate, as it was in 2012 and 2020.
Before Harris became the nominee, political analysts were projecting that it would be closer to the nearly 6 percent share third parties got in 2016, which some analysts argued doomed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. “For all the talk about third parties in this election, a combination of the most prominent third-party candidate dropping out, in addition to the increased favor-ability of the two major party nominees, means that there’s just going to be less of a market for third party candidates,” he said.
Kennedy could make more of an impact as a surrogate for Trump. He could help the former president with certain demographics, such as young men who listen to prominent personalities such as Joe Rogan, who has praised Kennedy. But the Trump campaign might also be wary of attaching itself to Kennedy’s brand: If the brain worm and the bear incident weren’t enough, he has been disavowed by members of his own famous family and now peddles conspiracy theories not just about the Covid-19 vaccine, but his father’s killer, 5G cell phone transmission, fraud in the 2004 election, and more. “The Democratic refrain against Trump and his running mate JD Vance is that they’re ‘weird,’” Kondik said. “Kennedy doesn’t make them less weird.” This from a person who supports boys bathrooms with Tampons, Abortions until 9 months, Drag Queen reading hour with Elementary kids...
Weird? Because they're loving husband, fathers, and want to make this country the best it can be. Weird because Trump, Vance, and RFK Jr love our country and want to help our Citizens and not illegal criminals.
Yeah we should be as weird as Trump, Vance, RFK Jr... We need more weird people like that and less brain dead morons like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barrack & Mike Obama, Bill & The She devil known as Hillary Clinton. Oh and rest of the liberal tards in Congress, Senate and voting class.
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faces questioning from the House Oversight Committee on security lapses in Butler, Pennsylvania, that led to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. #FoxNews We all saw this coming and deserving so... How this sort of thing happens it's beyond words, and she needs to answer for her mistakes. To me she is very much responsible for this tragic event which cost the life of one brave patriot, hurt two others and almost killed Trump. This is something that should NOT have had happened and as much as TRUMP said nice things about the secret service agents which were there to take him off stage the entire thing is rather odd and fishy to me when you look into the entire thing under a microscope... The entire thing really does smell of a job done to allow a lunatic to one day do this at a Rally and kill Trump.
Now I'm not saying this guy was hand picked to be the new Lee Harvey Oswald! But with the lack of proper care by the secret service and the people surrounding Trump the whole thing just doesn't add up.
To me it does feel as it might not have been staged but during the last four years a LOT of things took place which lead up to something like this happening. Like why is it that RFK JR doesn't have secret service behind him to protect him? Why did the White house decided the son of RFK and nephew of JFK who were both assassinated someone not important enough to make it that he also has protection since he's running in a 3rd party.