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Power-hungry Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro owes RFK Jr. an apology

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05.09.2026

Power-hungry Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro owes RFK Jr. an apology

It has been said that when politicians look in the mirror, they see a future president staring back at them. To be sure, many believe that is precisely what Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro imagines he sees when he gazes at the man looking back at him. But did he intentionally cross a line in service to his opportunism?  

One person who may think so is Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 

On Aug. 25, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported “two measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania,” both in Lancaster County and neither, allegedly, vaccinated against measles. Shapiro immediately high-tailed it to a local hospital to express his “deepest condolences” to the families, while also admitting that he had received a call from Kennedy but declined the secretary’s offer of federal assistance.  

Said Shapiro: “I was very, very blunt with him and I made very clear that his actions and the rhetoric that is coming from this administration are having a negative impact on communities across America.”

Is that true? According to former New York Times journalist and bestselling author Alex Berenson, no.

For those who may not know, Berenson was arguably the major voice of reason in our nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. His reporting was exceptional, calling out the hysteria, the deliberate misinformation and the blatant power grabs connected to the Biden administration’s draconian COVID dictates. 

But then, so did RFK, Jr. Aside from his widely read book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” Kennedy regularly posted on the manufactured madness around the pandemic while also quite questioning the true........

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