Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleNewly obtained documents reveal US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote to Samoa’s prime minister in 2019 offering to evaluate MMR vaccines, directly contradicting his testimony to senators. During his Senate confirmation hearings, Kennedy repeatedly claimed his 2019 trip to Samoa had nothing to do with vaccines, despite using the word vaccine eight times in the correspondence. The Department of Health and Human Services maintained the visit was unrelated to vaccines, rejecting claims that Kennedy lied to Congress as defamatory. Kennedy’s visit preceded a devastating measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, predominantly children under five, following a sharp decline in immunisation rates. Several US senators have accused Kennedy of misleading Congress, with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy stating that trust was broken after Kennedy violated key commitments on vaccine policy. In fullRFK Jr told Congress a trip to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines.’ A letter from 2019 says otherwiseMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
RFK Jr lied to lawmakers about Samoa work trip, new letter suggests
Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleNewly obtained documents reveal US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote to Samoa’s prime minister in 2019 offering to evaluate MMR vaccines, directly contradicting his testimony to senators. During his Senate confirmation hearings, Kennedy repeatedly claimed his 2019 trip to Samoa had nothing to do with vaccines, despite using the word vaccine eight times in the correspondence. The Department of Health and Human Services maintained the visit was unrelated to vaccines, rejecting claims that Kennedy lied to Congress as defamatory. Kennedy’s visit preceded a devastating measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, predominantly children under five, following a sharp decline in immunisation rates. Several US senators have accused Kennedy of misleading Congress, with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy stating that trust was broken after Kennedy violated key commitments on vaccine policy. In fullRFK Jr told Congress a trip to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines.’ A letter from 2019 says otherwiseMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
