"I Kept RFK Away From The White House": Trump Advisor Admits Sabotage w/ Katy Talento — Dr. Drew

When RFK approached Trump, it was Katy Talento's job to "make that problem go away." The epidemiologist and former health advisor to President Trump made the stunning confession in a viral apology to Robert F. Kennedy Jr – revealing that she sabotaged his Vaccine Safety Commission and was responsible for the infamous meeting between Aaron Siri, Del Bigtree, RFK, and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

"I basically called up Dr. Fauci and Francis Collins at the NIH and asked them to take the meeting far from the White House," Katy tells Dr. Drew. "That meeting became a little bit famous... Dr. Fauci was promising a bunch of studies, the mountains of evidence about vaccines and au**sm. And he never produced them."

But after the pandemic, Katy began to see things differently. She explains how the "legal shenanigans" surrounding FDA approvals during the COVID-19 pandemic finally pushed her to apologize to RFK Jr.

"I've become a heretic, excommunicated from the public health cult," she says. Dr. Drew reacts to the incredible danger of "rigid boxes" in modern medicine, and why experts changing their minds based on new evidence should be seen as a virtue.

From the 5/5/2026 episode of Ask Dr. Drew