Cheryl Hines defends husband RFK Jr against ‘The View’ hosts’ criticism

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines clashed with “The View” co-hosts and defended her husband, Secretary of Well being and Human Providers Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Tuesday, throughout a dialogue of Hines’ upcoming memoir, “Without script,” the actress was pressed about her husband’s work within the Trump administration. RFK Jr. initially ran as a Democrat for the 2024 election, however in the end dropped out of the race and as an alternative endorsed President Trump, a transfer that many take into account a decisive step within the common election.

Since then, Kennedy has confronted backlash from distinguished Democrats and liberal commentators — together with the hosts of “The View.”

“Bobby’s background, every thing I’ve seen him do, he is devoted his profession to suing main companies over toxins which have affected folks’s well being care, folks’s well being, I ought to say,” Hines mentioned as she defended her husband, citing her husband’s well-known environmental lawsuits.

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Cheryl Hines has supported her husband, U.S. Secretary of Well being and Human Providers Robert F. Kennedy Jr., amid the backlash over his alliance with President Trump. (Scott Eisen/Getty Photos)

“However the issue is, with all due respect, your husband is the least certified head of the Division of Well being and Human Providers that we’ve had in historical past,” Hostin argued.

Hines objected, questioning the rivalry that her husband – who particularly studied toxins – may very well be thought-about much less certified than an economist to fill this position.

“He is additionally unfold a whole lot of misinformation, a whole lot of chaos, a whole lot of confusion, and I believe it is simply very harmful,” Hostin argued. “I say it with the utmost respect.”

“A few of it’s good, and a few of it’s not,” replied co-host Pleasure Behar.

“If you say misinformation, disinformation, we might return to COVID,” Hines started, recalling all of the controversies surrounding medical data and institutional narratives throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

“He has linked circumcision to autism,” Hostin interjected.

“Can I end?” Hines mentioned, recalling that medical professionals and establishments initially claimed that getting the vaccine will maintain somebody from contracting or transmitting COVID-19 — pointers that have been later revised by the CDC. “That was ‘disinformation’, ‘misinformation’.”

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Sunny Hostin attends a dialogue of “The View” podcast “Behind the Desk” on 92NY on October 8, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Gary Gershoff/Getty Photos)

She recalled that her husband was censured on the time for asking officers on the time for precise medical proof of such claims.

Co-host Sara Haines then raised a degree the panel might all agree on, a prospect that delighted the embattled Hines, replying, “Oh, thanks. What will we all agree on?”

“The MAHA motion, ‘Make America Wholesome Once more,’ you are praising your husband’s marketing campaign to make meals and child system safer, which I believe everybody can get on board with, inform us about that,” Haines mentioned.

“I am very happy with Bobby, and he is labored very laborious to get a whole lot of petroleum-based meals colorings out of our meals, which additionally and… Even child meals, we’re discovering on the market’s arsenic. There’s lead,” Hines responded. She then turned again to Hostin, repeating her earlier phrases about RFK Jr. was unqualified in comparison with his predecessors, rotated and requested, “The query is, who led HHS once they allowed lead and arsenic in a child system? How is that individual not harmful?’

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U.S. Secretary of Well being and Human Providers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dealing with requires impeachment over his administration of the company. (Getty Photos)

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Because the interview ended, co-host Whoopi Goldberg later inspired Hines to return again to the present someday sooner or later.

“Actual?” Hines requested with a shocked look.

“As a result of we do not typically have folks on this present that we are able to ask these inquiries to, and I recognize you stopping by, and that is why I say, ‘Come again.'”

“My husband needed to return over and I mentioned, ‘Perhaps not,’” Hines joked.

“No, as a result of you understand what?” Goudberg mentioned. “If we are able to have the dialogue forwards and backwards, it turns into a matter for the folks: they’ll resolve what they imagine, they usually do not simply pay attention to 1 aspect.”