The New York Post is pleading with Republican senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services. In a lacerating editorial published Monday, the Post quoted Trump’s own critical comments about Kennedy made during his presidential campaign. “He’s a Radical Left Lunatic,” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time, adding: “No Republican can vote for this guy.” The Post said Trump was “right” at the time—months before he apparently got over his misgivings about the anti-vaccine advocate and decided to appoint Kennedy to his Cabinet. “He’s still a radical left lunatic who is anti-energy, a ‘big time’ taxer and completely incoherent about our nation’s health,” the editorial read. “No Republican can vote for this guy. No senator should.” It went on to call Kennedy “unserious,” “dangerous,” and claimed that despite the Trump team’s assurances that they’d fitted Kennedy with a “policy straitjacket,” the Post nevertheless thinks “the only straitjacket suitable for RFK Jr. is a real one.” The editorial comes ahead of the start of Kennedy’s confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. It also follows a similarly scathing editorial in The Wall Street Journal—another Rupert Murdoch newspaper—which on Sunday urged lawmakers to view his recently softened stance on vaccines with skepticism. “Senators would be wise to believe RFK Jr.’s career of spreading falsehoods rather than his confirmation conversions,” that piece concluded.