Most of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees are controversial, some are unqualified. But they are being confirmed by a GOP senate majority.

Incredibly, last week Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate’s health committee and a doctor, voted to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., infamous for opposing vaccines for children, to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

A source close to Cassidy told ABC News, “He needed something [conversations with Kennedy] to just let him feel comfortable enough that he wouldn’t be responsible for the death of children because of this.”

Deaths of children? That’s an awfully big reservation to get over with just talk, wouldn’t you say, senator? It is soul-numbing. But there is more.

Kennedy’s cousin, former U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, wrote a scathing letter ahead of his Senate confirmation hearings. She accused him of being a “predator” who led family members into drug addiction and of peddling dangerous conspiracy theories about vaccines.

RFK Jr.’s hearings were disastrous. He answered basic factual questions about Medicare incorrectly. He failed to address concerns about the financial motivations behind his vaccine skepticism — namely that he collected referral fees for plaintiffs he recruited to a law firm’s lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers.

And yet Cassidy voted to advance Kennedy.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) made a similar decision.

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