During a Senate hearing on Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s fitness to serve as US Secretary of Health and Human Services, it was unexpectedly revealed that Democrat and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders received $55 million from Big Pharma while running for president in 2016 and 2020.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, testified at his second hearing, this time before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
When Senator Cassidy asked Kennedy to convince him to become a public health advocate and not just regurgitate old information – citing studies showing that 1.25 million children studied had no autism associated with the measles vaccine – RFK Jr. responded, among other things: “I will be an advocate for strong science”.
At the end of the hearing, Senator Bernie Sanders and RFK Jr. exchanged information about pharmaceutical company funding. That’s when it was revealed that Sanders had received $5 million out of $200 million.
Sanders:
“5 million- yeah – out of 200 million, all right…”
Kennedy pointed out that no other presidential candidate had received so much money from the pharmaceutical industry.
Bernie Sanders agrees with Trump and Kennedy that the US health care system“is broken” and needs to be fixed.
Source: C-Span