{"id":81247,"date":"2026-11-12T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/senator-opens-investigation-into-evidence-rfk-jr-unlawfully-lied-to-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:55:10","slug":"senator-opens-investigation-into-evidence-rfk-jr-unlawfully-lied-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/senator-opens-investigation-into-evidence-rfk-jr-unlawfully-lied-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator opens investigation into evidence RFK Jr \u2018unlawfully lied\u2019 to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Ron Wyden, citing Guardian report, is launching inquiry into whether health secretary lied about Samoa trip during confirmation hearings<\/p>\n<p>A top Democratic senator has launched an investigation into evidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> \u201cunlawfully lied\u201d in his 2025 confirmation hearings to become the US health secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/27\/rfk-jr-senate-confirmation-hearing-testimony-vaccines\">citing a report by the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Wyden of Oregon, the incoming chair of the powerful Senate finance committee, is seeking extensive records from Children\u2019s Health Defense (CHD), the non-profit anti-vaccine group Kennedy has used as a vehicle to fuel his political rise, including all documents related to a 2019 trip Kennedy took to Samoa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/12\/senate-investigation-rfk-jr-measles-samoa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Ron Wyden, citing Guardian report, is launching inquiry into whether health secretary lied about Samoa trip during confirmation hearings A top Democratic senator has launched an investigation into evidence that Robert F Kennedy Jr \u201cunlawfully lied\u201d in his 2025 confirmation hearings to become the US health secretary, citing a report by the Guardian. Ron &#8230; <a title=\"Senator opens investigation into evidence RFK Jr \u2018unlawfully lied\u2019 to Congress\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/senator-opens-investigation-into-evidence-rfk-jr-unlawfully-lied-to-congress\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senator opens investigation into evidence RFK Jr \u2018unlawfully lied\u2019 to Congress\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}