MEET THE PRESS: Trump defends RFK Jr. over vaccines and autism
NBC denies an increase in autism, any link to vaccines
NBC’S MEET THE PREES: Trump says RFK Jr. will investigate discredited link between vaccines and autism
NBC’s Meet the Press featured Donald Trump on December 8th, and moderator Kristen Welker proved once again that the mainstream media in America will defend vaccines at all costs while denying autism is any kind of problem.
In the three minute segment where Trump was asked about Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s role as head of HHS, Welker tried hard to dismiss any link between autism and vaccines, and at the same time, she presented Kennedy as a threat to the vaccine program.
In their headline, NBC made it clear: THERE IS NO LINK. It’s been DISCREDITED.
As I listened to the interview, it was easy to recognize that regardless of what Trump said, Welker’s job was to show total indifference to the increase in autism and to promote vaccines as safe and life-saving. According to her, all the science is settled.
Transcript:
Welker: Let me ask you about RFK, Jr. He has obviously talked about his skepticism of vaccines. He’s expressed opposition to childhood vaccines.
Do you want to see childhood vaccines eliminated?
Trump: If they’re dangerous for the children. Look—
Welker: So possibly?
Welker refused to acknowledge that autism is a problem at all. Here I wish Trump had gotten the statistics right. Autism doesn’t affect “close to one of out of 100.” It’s three percent of U.S. children, according to outdated numbers from the CDC, and it’s sure to continue to increase.
And I wish Trump had said, look at the numbers in California. It’s one in every 22 children, one in 14 boys. How can you call this just better identification? When are the increases going to stop?
Trump: When you look at some of the problems. When you look at what’s going on with disease and sickness in our country, something’s wrong.
Welker: Are you talking about autism?
Trump: If you take a look at autism. Go back 25 years, autism was almost non-existent. It was one out of 100,000. Now it’s close to one out of 100.
What’s happening? If they can find it—
I did something the other night that was a little unusual. At Mar-a-Lago, I called the drug companies, the top drug companies, and I called RFK, Jr. and Dr. Oz, and some of his people, and I said, let’s all get together and let’s figure out where we’re going because we’re going to do a lot of things. . . .
Trump: . . .And we talked about vaccines in terms of what happens. We talked about pesticides. We talked about everything, and I think a lot of good things are going to come from [Kennedy].
He’s not going to upset any system. He’s not looking to reinvent the wheel totally, but when you look at the numbers, we don’t really have a very healthy country.
Imagine if Trump had turned the tables on her here and asked, do you know who funded the studies or if there were ties to the vaccine makers? How much is NBC News influenced by pharmaceutical revenue?
Welker: Sir, going back 25 years, studies show that there is no link between vaccines and autism, yet it sounds like you are open to the possibility of him looking—
Trump: I’m open to anything. I think somebody has to find out. If you go back, 25 years ago, you have very little autism, now you have it—
Welker: Well, they say they’re better at identifying it.
Trump: One in 100,000, and now it’s one in 100. That’s a pretty bad number. Something is going on.
I don’t know if it’s vaccines. Maybe it’s chlorine in the water, right? People are looking at a lot of different things. I want them to look at everything.
And here, I find it interesting that Welker had the stats on vaccine preventable deaths around the world, but she didn’t correct Trump on the autism rate, which is officially one in 36 in the U.S.
Welker: So childhood vaccines have prevented about four million deaths around the world every year.
Trump: I think that’s great. I’m all for it. Hey, look, I’m not against vaccines.
The polio is the greatest thing. If somebody told me to get rid of the polio vaccine, they’re going to have to work real hard to convince me.
I think certain vaccines are incredible, but maybe some aren’t, and if they aren’t, we have to find out.
But when you talk about autism, because it was brought up, and you look at the amount we have today vs 20 or 25 years ago, it’s pretty scary.
Welker: Well again, scientists say that’s because they’ve gotten better at identifying it, and there’s no link in studies.
Trump: The drug companies are going to be working with RFK, Jr.
He’s been an interesting guy to me. I’ve watched him for 25 years, and he’s been an interesting guy.
In this discussion Trump comes across as totally reasonable. He assured Welker that Kennedy isn’t out to destroy the vaccine program. He wants to see the science on vaccines. He wants to stop the autism epidemic, and he wants to address the chronic illness crisis that is linked to our food.
It seems Kristen Welker’s sole purpose in asking Trump about Kennedy was to present RFK as a threat to the vaccine program while denying autism is a problem.
Clearly, Welker and NBC don’t think anything is wrong when it comes to autism. It’s more evidence of how totally disconnected the mainstream media is when comes to what’s really happening in America.
Your thought?
I do hope that Bobby and President Trump are informed about the frightening increase of the children affected by autism. I know that vaccines play a part in putting too much stress on a child's immune system. But it is the cumulative effect of many things that cause autism. For too many families, a diagnosis of autism is the first step on a long, confusing, lonely journey through a wasteland of abandoned dreams to a final dark destination devoid of hope. Yet, children are recovering from autism, and still the general public and many of our dedicated doctors are unaware this is possible.
The psychiatrist who diagnosed my son, Ryan, at age three said there was no hope… no cure … and nothing we could do. That leading authority finished us off by telling us most of these kids end up in an institution or jail. Helping Ryan become who he was meant to be before autism came into our lives became the hardest thing I had ever done. But today, Ryan works as an aerospace engineer, has friends, and leads a typical life.
There is nothing so special or miraculous about Ryan. His story shows autism is medical and treatable. When you can repair a child’s broken immune system, recovery becomes possible. Unfortunately, there are too many Ryans still out there! If you had told me when he was first diagnosed that one day he would be living a typical life, I never would have believed you.
Here is a news interview from Channel 9 in Los Angeles. https://youtu.be/v1dHtluN5l0
My book I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE is the road map to how we helped Ryan. The first four chapters of the book can be read on Amazon and on my website. All profits from the book go to research and new treatments.
Thank you,
Marcia Hinds
P.S. Here is an excerpt from the book and what my son thinks about autism:
"Some people think we should just accept autism. And that if a child is treated, it changes who that kid is. I am still the same person I was, only now I’m happy and can enjoy life. It is hard to understand that children are not receiving proper medical treatment because some people think we should celebrate autism. When doctors believe the medical issues associated with autism are just part of a 'developmental disorder' children are not treated for the same medical conditions as every other kid. Is that really okay?" ~ Ryan Hinds
Please check out this 90 sec. clip of my son, Ryan before and after interventions from the documentary Restoring Balance: Autism Recovery https://bit.ly/3a8CtoM
Anne: Do you know how to email Trump and Bobby about this? (I don't.)
It's important that they realize that Trump said something about vaccines that Bobby wouldn't.
Hopefully, Trump can get another interview with NBC and give them the correct facts.
Sally