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Fri May 9, 2025, 01:52 PM May 9

''Shocked' FDA staffers walked out on RFK Jr.'s slur-ridden speech: report' [View all]

"Visiting the FDA on Friday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had several 'off -the-cuff' remarks which stunned many staffers present, according to a POLITICO report."

"The outlet obtained a transcript and audio of the speech where Kennedy claimed, 'The Deep State is real. And it’s not, you know, just George Soros and Bill Gates and a bunch of nefarious individuals sitting together in a room and plotting the, you know, the destruction of humanity.'"

"The speech only became worse as he claimed, 'every institution that’s created by human beings’ is inevitably captured by powerful interests.' Kennedy later added that 'We want to break away from this so we can make our kids healthy.'"

"The most insulting comment, however, came when he used an ableist slur when discussing mental health. 'Because of my family’s commitment to these issues, I spent 200 hours ... with the r------d when I was in high school,' Kennedy said at one point. 'So I was seeing people with intellectual disabilities all the time. I never saw anybody with autism.'"

"The 40-minute remarks also accused the employees he was speaking to of becoming a 'sock puppet' of the industries they regulate, seemingly because of CIA mind control. 'The CIA’s Project MKUltra — a notorious human experimentation program from the 1960s — and the Milgram experiment, a well-known study meant to test people’s willingness to obey authority even if it meant inflicting pain on others.'"

https://www.rawstory.com/kennedy-fda/

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