The Epoch Times – President Donald Trump praised Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as an increasing number of Democrats call on him to resign or for the president to fire him.
“He’s a different kind of a guy. He’s got a lot of good ideas, but he’s got a lot of ideas. Normally, they don’t have any ideas, and that’s why we have problems with autism and so many other things. Because we’re coming up with the answers for autism. You watch,” Trump told reporters on Sept. 7 before departing the White House.
“We’re coming up with the answers for other things that normal people—regular people, easy-to-get-along-with people—wouldn’t be able to do.”
Kennedy said earlier this year that health officials would be working to determine the causes of autism, the rate of which has shot up in the United States in recent years. Trump has said he supports the effort.
Kennedy, while overseeing divisions such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has also had recommendations for COVID-19 limited, precipitated the termination of the CDC’s director, and removed every member from the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel.
Kennedy faced criticism on Sept. 5 from senators during a hearing in Washington, including several GOP lawmakers.
“Some of your statements seem to contradict what you said in the prior hearing,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said in the session.
Multiple Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), said that Kennedy should resign over actions they said put the health of Americans at risk.
In a joint statement after the hearing, she and 11 other Democratic senators called for Trump to fire Kennedy if he did not step down …
