Former CDC Director Endorses Trump, Supports RFK Jr.’s Health Initiatives

‘To heal our children, a president must see the possible and lead our nation to act,’ Dr. Robert Redfield wrote.

Dr. Robert Redfield, then-director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill, on July 2, 2020. Saul Loeb/Pool/Getty Images

Dr. Robert Redfield, who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is supporting former President Donald Trump and his new ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to “Make America Healthy Again.”

The endorsement from Redfield, whom Kennedy had criticized for years, appears in a Sept. 24 editorial he wrote for Newsweek magazine under the headline, “Donald Trump Has a Plan to Make America’s Children Healthy Again. It’s a Good One.”