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This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayor Culper Podcast. We're going to take

a time-out in this episode from our chronicling of the Trump Club toocracy and his assault

on democracy in order to deliver to you an episode of Mayor Culper that you will not

soon forget. Think of it as an early holiday gift, something to talk about at the Thanksgiving

table with the anti-vax QAnon-loving uncle who thinks that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates

are part of a global cabal of blood-drinking lizard people. That's right folks, we're about

to take a trip together down the rabbit hole of disinformation with one of the leading

profits of the anti-vax movement, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It's not often that I have someone

on the show where I am in fundamental disagreement with literally everything that comes out of

his mouth. But today was one of those days.

In a column for Politico Magazine, former Congressman Joseph Kennedy II, Kathleen Kennedy

Townsend and her daughter, Maeve Kennedy McCain, criticized RFK Jr.'s long-time anti-vaxer

efforts. They write he has helped spread dangerous misinformation over social media and is

complicit in sewing distrust of the science behind vaccines.

Even if this was the deadly disease that they say it is, there's worse things than death.

And there was a whole generation, not some may sound cold and people get mad at me for

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