Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) decided to attack a member of his own party this week and he did it on the most Trump-hating network in America: MSNBC. In an interview with far-left host Ali Vitali on “Morning Joe,” Thune sneered at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., telling Americans not to listen to his health advice.
Asked whether RFK Jr.’s public comments on women’s health were “dangerous,” Thune smugly replied, “If I were a woman, I’d be talking to my doctor and not taking advice from RFK or any other government bureaucrat.” As if a career politician from South Dakota knows more about public health than the man who has spent decades battling Big Pharma, exposing regulatory capture, and amassing a massive grassroots following.
What made the exchange even worse is where Thune chose to make it. Instead of defending his own administration’s cabinet member on a hostile network, he handed MSNBC more ammunition against the Trump White House. This is the exact behavior Republican voters are tired of: weak leadership obsessed with pleasing the media rather than representing the people who elected them.
RFK Jr. is one of the few federal officials willing to revisit disastrous COVID-era decisions, question corporate control of medicine, and challenge unelected agencies. Meanwhile, Thune never showed an ounce of public fire against Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose lies, mandates, and cover-ups contributed to untold suffering worldwide. No warnings from Thune then. No righteous indignation. No MSNBC lecture circuit.
But let an outspoken Trump cabinet secretary challenge the establishment narrative — and suddenly John Thune finds his courage.
This episode is a snapshot of why the Republican base is furious with Capitol Hill “leadership.” They fight their own. They refuse to confront the real villains. And they would rather be praised by the corporate press than stand with the voters who put them in office.
If Thune had gone half as hard against Fauci as he just did against RFK Jr., the country might look very different today. Instead, he saved his outrage for the wrong side — again.
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