BREAKING🚨 RFK Jr. told Congress he never said Black children on ADHD meds should be sent to “wellness farms” to be “re-parented.” There is a recording. He still denied it.

Let us take a moment to appreciate the absolute confidence it takes to walk into Congress and deny a quote that exists on the internet, in audio, with your voice on it.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services — the person responsible for the physical wellbeing of 330 million Americans — sat in front of the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday and told Representative Terri Sewell, with a straight face, that he had no idea what the phrase “re-parenting” means and that he had never said it.

He said it in 2024. On a podcast. Twice, on two different shows. Out loud. Into a microphone.

Here is exactly what he said, on the 19Keys podcast, while campaigning for president: “Every Black kid is now just standardly put on Adderall, SSRIs, Benzos, which are known to induce violence.

And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented — to live in a community where there’ll be no cellphones, no screens. You’ll actually have to talk to people.”

He then described his plan for “wellness farms” — rural rehabilitation facilities modeled on something he saw during his Peace Corps days — where kids on psychiatric medication could go to be, essentially, re-raised by the federal government.

So to be crystal clear: the man who is in charge of American public health proposed, on tape, that the government should take Black children away from their families, send them to farms, and raise them differently. He said this while running for president. He said it more than once.

On Thursday, under oath, in the United States Capitol, with an aide standing directly behind Rep. Sewell holding a poster board with his exact words printed on it, RFK Jr. looked her in the eye and said, “I don’t even know what that phrase means.”

Sewell, who has represented Alabama for fifteen years and has heard a lot of things in that time, did not blink.

“Have you ever re-parented — or parented, I should say — a Black child?” she asked.

Kennedy refused to answer.

“I’m not going to answer something I didn’t say,” he told her.

“You absolutely said it,” Sewell replied.

And here is where it gets truly spectacular. Kennedy then accused her of “making stuff up.” The woman with the poster board. The woman who had his words printed in large font right behind her.

The woman who had already established, on the record, that Kennedy is not a board-certified physician, does not have a medical degree, has no medical training, and has never parented a Black child.

He accused her of fabricating a statement that is publicly available in multiple recordings.

The HHS press office later told reporters that Kennedy’s comments were “taken out of context,” and that in “psychotherapy terms,” re-parenting is about developing emotional regulation and self-worth.

Which is a very interesting explanation for a man who just told Congress he doesn’t even know what the word means.

This is the same RFK Jr. who fired all seventeen members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the expert panel that guided national vaccine policy for decades, and replaced them with vaccine skeptics.

The same man who gutted NIH funding, cut cancer research programs, and had a federal judge block his attempt to reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccines from seventeen to eleven.

The man who made a video of himself flexing with Kid Rock while measles cases climbed past nine hundred.

Rep. Sewell did not let the wellness farms thing go. She brought up the United States’ “long and painful history of separating Black children from their families” — from slavery, through Jim Crow, through the modern child welfare system, where Black kids are still removed from their homes at disproportionate rates not because of greater harm but because of systemic bias.

She said that for anyone to suggest Black families are “not capable of raising their own children is deeply offensive.”

Kennedy said he never suggested that.

The poster board disagreed.

Research, by the way, shows that Black children are actually less likely than white children to be diagnosed with ADHD and less likely to receive ADHD medication — even when their symptoms are similar or more severe.

The entire premise of Kennedy’s “re-parenting” plan is based on a factual claim that is backwards. Black kids are under-diagnosed and under-treated for ADHD, not over-medicated.

The man running the Department of Health and Human Services does not know this. He said so on a podcast. Then he denied saying it.

He is in charge of your family’s health. He has the receipts to prove it. He just doesn’t believe they’re real.