Trump Won’t Care that RFK Jr. Compared Him to Hitler, Ex-Aide Says
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President-elect Donald Trump is unlikely to “care” about freshly-unearthed recordings of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. comparing him to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, according to former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin.
CNN reported on Thursday that Kennedy, who the president-elect nominated as the next Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary last week, compared Trump to Hitler and other fascist dictators like Benito Mussolini multiple times while co-hosting the Ring of Fire radio show.
Kennedy also reportedly praised descriptions of Trump supporters as “outright Nazis” and “belligerent idiots.” Additionally, the future Trump ally once suggested that Trump was worse than Hitler because “Hitler was interested in policy” and not “non compos mentis,” a Latin phrase meaning “of unsound mind.”
Griffin, who has become an outspoken critic of the president-elect since exiting the White House in the waning days of his first administration, suggested during a CNN appearance on Friday that Kennedy’s past remarks would not upset Trump.
The ex-Trump aide pointed out that Vice President-elect JD Vance had repeatedly denounced his future running mate, including pondering whether Trump would be “America’s Hitler” in 2016, while arguing that the president-elect’s only concern was that his allies “praise him now.”
President-elect Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, are pictured together in Dearborn, Michigan on November 1, 2024. The inset image features Nazi leader Adolf Hitler… President-elect Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, are pictured together in Dearborn, Michigan on November 1, 2024. The inset image features Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during a 1934 radio address. Former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin said on Thursday that Trump likely will not “care” that Kennedy previously compared him to Hitler and cheered on descriptions of his supporters as “outright Nazis”
“Honestly, his own vice president had used similar language to RFK,” said Griffin. “I don’t think that’s going to be an issue, as long as RFK is willing to praise him now and say that he was wrong about him.”
Newsweek reached out for comment to Trump’s office via email on Thursday night.
Trump’s choice of Kennedy to lead the nation’s healthcare infrastructure has proven controversial, in large part due to Kennedy’s long history of promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and other questionable claims regarding health and medicine.
Kennedy has faced further backlash from conservative Republicans for largely backing abortion rights. In a statement issued last week, former Vice President Mike Pence blasted the choice as a betrayal to the “unapologetically pro-life” values of the first Trump administration.
“The nomination of RFK Jr. to serve as Secretary of HHS is an abrupt departure from the pro-life record of our administration and should be deeply concerning to millions of Pro-Life Americans who have supported the Republican Party and our nominees for decades,” Pence said.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who challenged Trump during the 2024 GOP presidential primaries but later endorsed him, argued that Kennedy should not have been nominated due to his lack of qualifications during her SiriusXM radio show on Wednesday.
“He is not educated, trained or practiced in health at all. He has spent his entire career as a trial lawyer, an environmental lawyer and a liberal Democrat,” said Haley. “I understand he wants to raise awareness on chemicals in food and vaccinations, but then let him be a health advisor.”
Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney general, former Congressman Matt Gaetz, withdrew his controversial Cabinet nomination over concerns that he was becoming a distraction to the second Trump administration on Thursday. The president-elect nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for the job hours later.
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