Among all of President-elect Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees, it’s remarkable that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has so far coasted through Capitol Hill on his way to his confirmation hearing.
Kennedy, whom Trump has nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has a reputational rap sheet that would make Matt Gaetz blush: his bizarre obsessions with animals (dead and alive), his claim to have been infected with brain worms, an allegation of sexual assault from a former babysitter, his promotion of conspiracy theories about the assassinations of his father and his uncle, and his diary of dozens of sexual conquests discovered by his second wife (who shortly afterward committed suicide).
Michael Warren is a politics editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was an on-air reporter at CNN and a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. When Mike is not reporting, writing, editing, and podcasting, he is probably spending time with his wife and three sons.
