‘It’s A Lie’: ‘Fox & Friends’ Co-Hosts Defend RFK Jr Against His Own Family’s Public Attacks Against Him

The panelists on “Fox & Friends” defended Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. against his family members’ personal attacks against him ahead of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.

Kennedy’s cousin, Caroline Kennedy, issued a scathing letter to key senators Thursday calling him a “predator” who is unfit to serve as the next HHS secretary, while other members of his family publicly condemned his presidential run and his later endorsement of President Donald Trump. Kennedy has been an outspoken critic of the current Democratic Party, additives in highly processed American foods and has been a skeptic of some vaccines, though he has assured the public he is not “anti-vaccine.”

The “Fox & Friends” co-hosts pointed out Kennedy’s determination to improve Americans’ health, including making diets healthier and reducing the obesity rate.

“ wants to take away, make it more organic, more like the foods in Europe,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt said. “That says a lot when Europe doesn’t want our meats, when Europe doesn’t want to import our fruits and our vegetables. And think about all the people that you know in their 20s and 30s getting cancer. Someone I know told me that a girl who was like 31 years old just died of breast cancer. That shouldn’t be happening. That didn’t happen when we were growing up. Kids are obese, adults are obese, and he’s going to make Americans healthy again, what’s wrong with that?”

“I think it’s the hottest topic for most Americans when they’re not talking about who they’re voting for, everyone’s talking about the food,” co-host Brian Kilmeade added. “It’s universal. For the longest time we heard Americans don’t get active enough, and now it turns out we are active, maybe it’s what we’re eating isn’t possible to burn off. And for Caroline Kennedy to make such a scathing series of statements, it couldn’t be worse. And she’s got this iconic status. And she even brought up the fact that he’s using his father’s name in a detrimental way, that he groveled to get the job. This job with Trump, he did not grovel. The Trump campaign reached out to him because they saw he was getting a lot of youth votes and a lot of their messages overlapped.”