Note how the caption for Wakefield says “Disgraced Doctor.” This is why we don’t do interviews with Fake News. https://t.co/iZsu1ItjWa
— Larry Cook (@stopvaccinating) January 29, 2024
Wakefield's points are alarming.
Starts out with Trump making a comment during the 2016 presidential debates "Autism has become an epidemic." But that comment seems to be more of a predictive programming remark for the 2020 pandemic rather than a critique of the vaccines causing autism.
Andrew Buncombe was the US Editor of The Independent at the time of this interview where he asked Wakefield about his relationship with Trump.
00:18. Wakefield is given the abominable label of "Disgraced doctor," a horrific lie, as he explains. "I met him once before the election when he was running for the presidency I had a meeting at Kissimmee in Florida (on 08/11/2016) and we were there, three of us, four of us, representing the issue of autism and its link to immunization, and he interjected and said, "You don't need to tell me that vaccines cause autism. I've seen it. I've seen it personally." [Then Trump on tape].
00:46. Trump: And we've had so many instances . . . people that work for me. Just the other day, 2 years old, 2 1/2 years old, the child, a beautiful child, went to have the vaccine and came back a week later, got a tremendous fever, got very very sick, and now is autistic.
01:03. We went on to discuss the issue of the autism crisis in this country, which is set to affect one in two children by 2032, according to the CDC's own data. If nothing is done, nothing changes, that's 80% of the boys in this country. It's a national crisis, and that's what he wanted to discuss. He said if he were to be elected, then he would do something about this. My concern at this stage facing the prospect of one in two children in this country developing autism by 2032. That is my major concern.
And what did President Donald Trump do to stem this trend?
