Mayor Eric Adams with the hosts of ABC’s The View. Friday, Nov. 15, 2024.
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Mayor Eric Adams on Friday prevented commenting on Donald Trump’s controversial announcement that he intends to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as US Well being Secretary, persevering with his current development of refraining from criticizing the Republican President-elect.
Throughout a Nov. 15 interview on ABC’s The View, Hizzoner declined to supply an opinion on Trump’s intention to faucet Kennedy, who has come underneath heavy hearth for embracing controversial medical theories, together with vaccine skepticism, to steer the Well being and Human Providers Division. Trump has mentioned he would let Kennedy “go wild on health” — suggesting Kennedy would have free rein to steer the division together with his unorthodox views on well being and medication.
“Executives will nominate and bring in those who they believe will move their vision forward,” Adams mentioned, sidestepping a query on what he thinks about Kennedy’s appointment.
Kennedy, who joined Trump’s marketing campaign after ending his personal impartial run for president, doesn’t have a level in medication or any health-related subject.
Nevertheless, the mayor did word that he does consider within the longstanding follow of water fluoridation, which helps stop tooth decay, in response to the US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
“I believe we should have fluoride in the water based on what my experts are telling me,” Adams mentioned of the follow that the town has used because the Sixties.
Kennedy claims that water fluoridation is linked to every kind of medical points together with arthritis, bone fractures and IQ loss and can advise state and native governments towards doing it.
Adams initially hesitated to endorse fluoridating the town’s consuming water when he was requested about it the day following Trump’s election win.
“I’m not too familiar with the whole conversation around fluoride, what makes it good or bad,” he mentioned on the time.
The mayor did seem to align with Kennedy on his skepticism round America’s meals techniques. Adams embraced a plant-based food plan after he says he practically went blind from diabetes introduced on from years of consuming unhealthy processed meals.
Kennedy has mentioned he desires to take away extremely processed meals from faculties and push for eradicating components from meals. Adams equally recognized issues with processed meals on Friday.
“Let’s be clear, there are real problems with our food in our country, and we need to watch what we feed in our children,” Adams mentioned. He recognized the principle downside as “too much hormones.”
“People know I almost lost my sight with diabetes,” he mentioned. “I almost lost my sight with diabetes. The doctor said [I’d go] blind in a year. I was gonna lose my fingers and toes. And it was my food. It wasn’t my DNA, it was my dinner.”
The mayor’s solutions on Kennedy adopted a current development that began within the months main up the election, and has continued since, of him shying away from criticizing Trump. Adams’ obvious reluctance to cross Trump has fueled hypothesis that he desires the president-elect’s assist with liberating him from his authorized troubles.
Adams was indicted in late September on federal corruption costs, to which he has pleaded not responsible. He has a trial date set for April 21 of subsequent 12 months.
Trump has publicly ridiculed the fees and recommended, with out proof, that Adams is being focused by President Biden’s Justice Division for his outspokenness on the migrant disaster.
Trump introduced Thursday that he intends to switch Damian Williams, the Manhattan US Lawyer who introduced the case towards Adams, with Jay Clayton, a lawyer who served as Securities and Alternate Fee head in his first time period.
