It’s a rough road to confirmation for some of Trump’s best and brightest.
Was it because Democrats consider Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. a turncoat? Were they just trying to sabotage him because he’s an appointee of Donald Trump? Or are they horrified at the idea of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) being run by someone who trusts the science only when it isn’t politically tainted or profit-driven? For one or all of those reasons, several Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee launched angry – and, in one or two cases, unhinged – barrages against RFK Jr. during round one of their former party colleague’s confirmation hearing on Jan. 29.
One Democrat accused him of selling out his beliefs just to get a Cabinet post in the Trump administration. Others claimed he had pushed “conspiracy theories.”…
