Republican adds Kennedy’s remit would include women’s health and says Liz Cheney should be placed in a war zone

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Donald Trump said late on Thursday that he wants the vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr “to take care of health”, including “women’s health” if the former president wins back the White House in this election, as he spoke on the election campaign trail in Nevada.

Earlier in Arizona he told the conservative broadcaster Tucker Carlson that the former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is now campaigning for his Democratic rival Kamala Harris, should have rifles “shooting at her” and “trained on her face”.