{"id":13720,"date":"2025-09-26T07:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hillary-clinton-slams-rfk-jr-after-trumps-false-autism-and-tylenol-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:20:33","slug":"hillary-clinton-slams-rfk-jr-after-trumps-false-autism-and-tylenol-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hillary-clinton-slams-rfk-jr-after-trumps-false-autism-and-tylenol-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton slams RFK Jr. after Trump&#8217;s false autism and Tylenol claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1758754761000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hillary Clinton on Wednesday slammed <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a><\/span>  and accused the Trump administration of turning &ldquo;the clock back&rdquo; on public health.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton expressed alarm about people in the country listening to &ldquo;crackpot ideas&rdquo; after a press conference Monday in which the Secretary of Health and Human Services and President <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-presidential-portraits-biden-autopen-white-house-e8624154e72631e723930ea549bb8910\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>  made a series of <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tylenol-cause-autism-trump-kennedy-0847ee76eedecbd5e9baa6888b567d66\">unproven statements<\/a><\/span>  about <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/autism-tylenol-pregnancy-mothers-trump-fact-check-6e03fb199acf0c5ce313536c53424788\">Tylenol<\/a><\/span>childhood vaccines and autism.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I mean, this is so crazy, it&rsquo;s so wrongheaded, it&rsquo;s so shortsighted. And it&rsquo;s going to cause deaths,&rdquo; she said during an appearance Wednesday on BLN&rsquo;s &ldquo;Morning Joe.&rdquo; &rdquo;These guys want to literally turn the clock back.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton, the former secretary of state and Trump&rsquo;s 2016 Democratic opponent for president, said the statements would lead to confusion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When your president says something, when a Kennedy, who&rsquo;s the secretary of HHS, says something, what are you supposed to believe?&rdquo; she asked. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know, people are confused. And too many Americans are listening to this, you know, very destructive anti-science tirade that we&rsquo;re hearing from this administration. And it&rsquo;s going to cost lives. It already is costing lives.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, White House spokesman Kush Desai chided Clinton, saying that her &ldquo;open contempt and condescension towards everyday Americans is exactly why she so devastatingly lost in 2016 to President Trump and why she&rsquo;s no longer relevant.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rfk-jr-hillary-clinton-vaccines-trump-cc50474f2c99cdce37f9a9cfb4d36df1\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Hillary Clinton on Wednesday slammed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and accused the Trump administration of turning &ldquo;the clock back&rdquo; on public health. Clinton expressed alarm about people in the country listening to &ldquo;crackpot ideas&rdquo; after a press conference Monday in which the Secretary of Health and Human Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}