Republican former Gov. Tommy Thompson, a former U.S. health and human services secretary, showed support for President-elect Donald Trump saying he’d nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the department .
Thompson, who was the HHS secretary during George W. Bush’s first presidential term, told the Journal Sentinel he appreciated that Trump was “reaching across the aisle” and bringing a Democrat into his administration.
Kennedy, a former Democrat who suspended his third-party campaign for the presidency in August and endorsed Trump, espouses views widely panned by health experts, including the false belief that vaccines cause autism …