Dr. Fauci Attacks RFK Jr.'s Stance On Vaccines In 3 Brutal Words

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he’s truly perplexed by what’s happening inside independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s head.

In a new episode of the “The Axe Files” podcast, Fauci told CNN’s David Axelrod about how he once walked away from a meeting with the prominent anti-vaccine advocate with serious concerns about his grasp on scientific facts.

“I don’t know what’s going on in his head,” Fauci told Axelrod, a former advisor to President Barack Obama. “But it’s not good.”

At the beginning of Donald Trump’s term in the Oval Office, Fauci decided to hear Kennedy out at the request of presidential son-in-law and former White House advisor, Jared Kushner, and Francis Collins, the then-director of the National Institute of Health.

While Kennedy was there to make a case for being appointed as head of a White House commission investigating vaccine safety, Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president, found the presentation rife with misinformation.

Over the years, Kennedy has consistently claimed that vaccines can cause autism and other conditions, despite strong evidence to the contrary.

“The first slide I remember he showed is that ‘It has been shown that vaccinations are responsible for the following diseases,’ and he gave every disease in the world,” Fauci recalled. “For the next 40 minutes or so, he showed slide after slide after slide that day that make no sense at all.”

Following the presentation, the doctor said he tried to reason with Kennedy about his science of vaccines to no avail.

“We were walking out of the room at the [National Institutes of Health], I went over to and I said, ‘Bobby, I believe you care about children, and you care that you don’t want to hurt them,’” Fauci said. “‘But