Ben Shapiro says Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “expressed support for policies that I think are really troubling”
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From the January 28, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): President Trump has a bunch of nominees are up for confirmation this week. One won on Tuesday, that'd be Scott Bessent. He is now your new Treasury secretary. He was ushered in 68 to 29 to confirm Bessent to lead the Treasury department. That is not a shock. His confirmation hearings were fairly uncontroversial.
Meanwhile, there are two very, very controversial nominees who are up this week, maybe three if count Tulsi Gabbard.
One, of course, is RFK Jr. RFK Jr., again, I like RFK Jr. a lot personally. I've had him on the show. He has expressed support for policies that I think are really troubling, including apparently, according to Politico, openness to adopting a key progressive proposal for lowering drug prices in a closed door meeting with Senate finance committee staffers.
What exactly was that measure? He indicated that he would consider authorizing the government to seize the patents of high-priced medicines for manufacturers and sharing them with other drug makers as a way to force down costs. OK? That is a great way to destroy research and investment in the medical industry. If you just seize patents, which are actual private property, and then you just distribute them out there, who is going to put the money into research and development, into R&D, to develop a drug knowing it could be seized at any moment by the federal government and just redistributed to a bunch of people who never produced the drug in the first place. Again, that approach was long-supported by progressive Democrats. It was supported a little bit by Joe Biden, who'd use executive authority to take certain drug patents developed using taxpayer money and license them to other manufacturers they might make and sell them for less. You know, that is going to generate some pretty significant pushback from Republicans, you imagine. Big backers of that policy include Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
And then, of course, RFK Jr. is going to have to face down questions about his formerly pro choice positions. Now Katie Miller, who's Kennedy spokesperson, disputed the characterization. She said, quote, this is once again another example of Politico carrying Democrat's water. After Politico was told this did not occur the way Democrats have described it, they're seeing the publish in an attempt to denigrate Bobby Kennedy and create a story where there is not one. The fact remains this does not occur. This is a smear campaign against Donald J. Trump. So, you know, apparently, I hope that's right because I like RFK Jr. a lot on a personal level, and I hope that he did not back any policy like that.