MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell has blasted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for being a heroin addict who is entirely unqualified to be the country’s leading health official.
In a scathing monologue on his Last Word show, O’Donnell called Kennedy, who graduated Harvard the same year as him in 1976, as a “a crime against humanity” and “the most dangerous nepo baby in American history.” O’Donnell also attacked Kennedy for his rampant drug use throughout his school years, appearing to suggest he was on drugs when they shared a class together.
“No Kennedy has ever trafficked more blatantly and offensively in the dead Kennedys’ memories than Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has never been a serious student of or practitioner of anything,” O’Donnell said.
“Robert Kennedy Jr. was a heroin addict in high school, college, law school and beyond,” O’Donnell added. “He did not have one day of his life as a serious student. I was in one class with him in college in a small classroom where, when he showed up, it was obvious that he wasn’t really present.”
O’Donnell added that Kennedy was “handed” a job as assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office before he even passed the bar exam.
“Robert Kennedy Jr. had to surrender that job, when, not surprisingly, he failed the bar exam while he was a heroin addict,” O’Donnell said. “He was a heroin addict addict while he was taking the bar exam and working in the District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, he was breaking the law every day.”
The host discussed RFK Jr. giving testimony on Thursday in a heated Senate Finance Committee hearing on Trump’s health-care agenda, where he was grilled over his stance on the COVID-19 vaccine and told he should resign or quit.
O’Donnell questioned the health secretary’s qualifications, saying he did not take chemistry or biology in college and “would not have gotten through one day” of a pre-med course.
“He got that job from Donald Trump because of one word: Kennedy,” O’Donnell said.
“Donald Trump, a lifelong attention addict, grew up obviously dazzled by the Kennedy fame machine,” the MSNBC host continued. “Fame is currency with Donald Trump. And so the most unqualified and incompetent health and human services secretary in history took his place in the Trump Cabinet, working for a man whose fortune and business career was handed to him by his father.”
O’Donnell also claimed that Donald Trump’s “neurological aging has surely reached the point where he can no longer spell the word ‘science,’” and that he appears to “hate expertise,” especially in medical science.
“And so Donald Trump got the health and human services secretary that he deserves, but the country did not,” O’Donnell said. “Robert Kennedy Jr. has called the COVID vaccines, quote, ‘a crime against humanity.’ Robert Kennedy Jr. is a crime against humanity. People are already dying this year in this country from measles because they followed the guidance of the anti-vaccine warrior and madman, Robert Kennedy Jr.”
It is not the first time O’Donnell has mentioned attending Harvard University with RFK Jr. in the mid-’70s.
“That uneducated buffoon did not take a single pre-med science course in college,” he said. “And in the class I was in with him in college, he could not keep his eyes open. I did not know then that he was a heroin addict every day he was in college.”
He added, “And that is who Donald Trump wants to be secretary of health and human services. A science ignoramus who was in a heroin stupor every day that he could have been studying science in college.”
