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Trump blames "a drug or something" for autism

Aug 26, 2025
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In a meeting that combined the scientific rigor of a flat Earth convention with the intellectual depth of a graphene monolayer, Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined forces to announce their theory on the "real" cause of autism, dismissing decades of research pointing to genetic factors.

"There has to…

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