Last year, in the midst of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential run, a Variety reporter asked him whether he was willing to become Donald Trump’s running mate. “I don’t think that my marriage would survive it,” he said, pointing to his wife, the actor Cheryl Hines. “I think he’s right,” she added. Kennedy didn’t become the president’s running mate, but some months later, he did endorse Trump—and his marriage appears to have survived it. Currently, Hines is on a press tour to promote her upcoming memoir, Unscripted . In her public appearances thus far, she seems very much on board.
On Tuesday, in a testy interview on The View , Hines parried attacks on her husband’s spreading of health misinformation and defended his qualifications to lead the Department of Health a