Trump Posts Video Claiming Vaccine Additive Thimerosal Is Toxic

President Donald Trump posted a video Monday of a scientist with ties to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming vaccines contain toxic ingredients.

The video in the Truth Social post features Mark and David Geier, a father-son research team, claiming that the vaccine preservative thimerosal is toxic and causes autism and other neurological disorders.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there’s no evidence that thimerosal in vaccines causes harm.

Kennedy has tapped David Geier to work on vaccine safety issues at Health and Human Services, though it’s unclear what his role is. In 2012, Geier was ...