Kerry Kennedy is opening up about her relationship with her brother, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and why she wants Americans to do the opposite of what he’s prescribing.
“I love my brother. And I not only love him because all of us have to love our siblings, but I also like him,” Kennedy said during an appearance on Erin Burnett’s CNN show, “OutFront,” on Monday.
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Despite that, she added, she does “disagree with almost everything he says from a public policy perspective.”
Especially as RFK Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic who is currently under fire for his response to a measles outbreak in Texas, has spread misinformation about vaccines for years.
His sister isn’t having it, and recommended on Burnett’s show that most Americans “get every vaccine that’s out there” right now.
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“Everybody, go get the measles vaccine right now,” she said. “If you haven’t gotten it ― go get it. Get the COVID vaccine. Get every vaccine that’s out there.”
“Go and get it, because that’s the way you protect yourself,” Kerry Kennedy added. “That’s the way you protect your children. And that’s the way ― the only way ― our country and the world will be protected from diseases.”
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Kerry Kennedy is an outspoken opponent of her brother’s policies and his friendly relationship with President Donald Trump.
The lawyer and human rights activist, who campaigned for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, memorably torched her brother for disgracing their late father’s legacy.
“I’m outraged and disgusted by my brother’s gaudy and obscene embrace of Donald Trump,” Kerry Kennedy told MSNBC host Jen Psaki last year.
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“And I completely disavow and separate and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. in this flagrant and inexplicable effort to desecrate and trample and set fire to my father’s memory,” she added.