RFK Jr. Is Too Dangerous for Government: Michael Bloomberg

One of Donald Trump’s signature first-term achievements was Operation Warp Speed, the $18 billion effort to accelerate development of the Covid-19 vaccine. He deserves lasting credit for supporting the major effort it involved, the millions of lives it helped save and the enormous economic benefits it produced. So why would he now appoint someone who would undo his own success?

In his election night victory speech, Trump suggested that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a notorious anti-vaccine crusader and peddler of junk science — would have a prominent role in his administration. It would be a disastrous mistake that would kill and ...