Daily Beast: “Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump will give the keynote speech next month at an anti-vaccine conference, marking the latest alliance between the Trump family and the GOP’s fringiest elements. Trump is set to speak at the Truth About Cancer Live! convention between Oct. 22 and 24 in Nashville, joining a speakers’ lineup that includes some of the most prominent promoters of disinformation about vaccines, as well as leading figures in the QAnon conspiracy movement.”

“The conference is the brainchild of Ty and Charlene Bollinger, two major promoters of anti-vaccine disinformation who have made tens of millions of dollars promoting both alternative health cures for cancer and vaccine fears. The Bollingers have dubbed the coronavirus vaccine ‘that abominable vaccine,’ according to a Center for Public Integrity report, and sell a $200 video series promoting vaccine fearmongering on their website. Trump confirmed his scheduled speech in an email to The Daily Beast. ‘I am not there to talk about vaccines,’ Trump wrote. ‘I am in Nashville to talk about the accomplishments of the 45th President of the United States.’ Trump disputed the idea that the conference is ‘anti-vaccine,’ pointing to his vaccinated status. ‘As to labeling something an anti-vaccine event, it wouldn’t make much sense for me to attend as a vaccinated person if it was,’ Trump wrote. The Bollingers and ‘Truth About Cancer’ didn’t respond to a request for comment.”