Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who is no stranger to mixing it up with right-wing wackos, took a shot at President Donald Trump's disaster of a health secretary on Wednesday.
"Kids and adults with autism, loving contributors to our society, don't deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in the backseat of his car," Pritzker said of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., during his Governor’s Day speech at the Illinois State Fair.
Kennedy’s public health career is defined by his long-debunked lies claiming a link between childhood vaccines and autism. Since becoming Trump’s top public health official, Kennedy has waged an ignorant and dangerous war on science, hiring disgraced anti-vaccine lunatics, slashing hundreds of millions from crit