On LindellTV, Robert Malone says the Trump administration's “policy positions on glyphosate” are “poorly considered” and “have resulted in a major rift”

Malone: “I'll put it that way because I want to be generous to the president — poorly considered policy positions on glyphosate, have resulted in a major rift between the administration, the Republican Party, and the MAHA coalition.”

Written by Media Matters Staff

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As Roll Call reported in March:

Robert Malone, an ideological ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is stepping away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee following a court ruling that effectively nullified the panel.

Malone was one of several picks by Kennedy in a controversial reworking of the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices last year. 

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While on the panel, he supported more limited COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, arguing that Americans should be guided by consultations with health care providers rather than “propaganda, marketing and other activities that are not based in an actual, real world assessment of their risks and benefits.”

From the May 27, 2026, edition of LindellTV's The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson, streamed on Rumble

ROBERT MALONE (GUEST, FORMER ACIP MEMBER): The appearance now is that — and I'm going to name a couple of names, [Susie] Wiles and [Heidi] Overton — cherry-picked the polling response and use that to advocate for public policy changes that are aligned with what you and this journalist are reporting now, but we've been reporting this now for a few months. And the aspects of this poll that were disclosed previously were clearly biased.

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So this has led to major changes. The entire MAHA apparatus was told that the policy from the White House — Oh, and I forgot to say, this polling was done in swing states, and it was done with all voters, you know, likely voters. And so what you have is a sampling from states where this is very mixed population of — it's really purple states that are being pulled. They don't represent the red states. They don't represent blue states. It represents purple states. And in particular, it was used to make the case that the administration will lose the House if they continue to speak about issues having to do with vaccine controversies because it will cause the loss of elections in the swing states for House of Representative candidates.

So that's the context for all of this. It has had huge impact on HHS, on Secretary Kennedy's latitude to speak. It is — It'd become a major source of conflict and disenchantment, as you point out, within MAHA, and to a lesser extent, within MAGA. And that combined with the, really, how do I say it, poorly considered — I'll put it that way because I want to be generous to the president — poorly considered policy positions on glyphosate, have resulted in a major rift between the administration, the Republican Party, and the MAHA coalition, which is quite a complex group of different people. Their — I think their one unifying principle is they're generally parents that are upset about their children's health. But that's a broad and complicated coalition.