Trump says he supports polio vaccine despite signs of RFK Jr’s opposition – as it happened

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Last week, the New York Times reported that a lawyer who had filed petitions seeking to revoke the approval of vaccines for polio and other preventable diseases has been by Robert F Kennedy Jr’s side in interviews to hire top officials for the health and human services department.

A reporter asked Donald Trump today if he supported taking the polio vaccine out of circulation.

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