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Lindsey Graham says Trump’s Pentagon pick would release woman who has accused him from nondisclosure agreement, allowing her to testify
At his ongoing press conference, Donald Trump was asked what he would say to people concerned about the anti-vaccine views of Robert F Kennedy Jr, who he nominated to lead the department of health and human services.
“I think he’s going to be much less radical than you would think. I think he’s got a very open mind, or I wouldn’t have put him there. He’s going to be very much less radical,” Trump said, adding “there are problems we don’t do as well as a lot of other nations … and we’re going to find out what those problems are.”
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