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Robert F Kennedy Jr’s old entourage, Nicole Shanahan, is in the midst of a transformation into a MAGA health influencer.
Shanahan was a Democrat until earlier this year. He then became a partner of RFK Jr. as an independent, but now he has appeared together with Tucker Carlson during a recent event outside of Houston. Other guests during Carlson’s live tour include Alex Jones, Donald Trump Jr., and Charlie Kirk.
The lawyer and tech entrepreneur was once among Silicon Valley’s elite, who is now using a sizeable divorce settlement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin to become an influencer and what he calls a “warrior mom” when he invites women. supports his outlandish medical opinion, also supports former President Donald Trump, according to Washington Post.
In August, Kennedy ended his campaign and announced his support for Trump. Since then, Shanahan, 39, has tried to become a health influencer with the Trump-inspired slogan “Make America Healthy Again.”
He has distanced himself from his old tech friends, claiming that he wants to use technology to overcome obstacles such as aging and other life limitations. She said she believed vaccines caused her daughter’s autism, saying she was “not allowed to consider it” while in Silicon Valley. He also hinted that he might want to run for governor of California.
She has noted that all of her political views don’t necessarily “overlap” with Trump, but she’s still pushing the candidacy during appearances on Fox News, podcasts, and on her social media accounts.
Shanahan said Trump is a “former enemy” who has become a “partner in our time of need.”
“Sergey gave him money so he wouldn’t do something dangerous to him,” said another The Post. “So now he’s doing something dangerous for the country.”
Shanahan suggested that support for Trump is due to disillusionment with the medical profession and Democrats. He accused Democrats of trying to stop Kennedy’s campaign and described him as being controlled by elitist groupthink.
She has pushed the idea of Make America Healthy Again to a group of leftist and independent women who have lost faith in science during the pandemic, Post noted. Shanahan said her beliefs began to change during the pandemic when she questioned whether “environmental toxins” had harmed her daughter.
The billionaire said his daughter’s experience of being diagnosed with autism at 18 months old led him to take on fringe health ideas and right-wing politics.
“I swear to God, I gave birth to a healthy baby girl,” she told Carlson. She claimed her daughter became a “different child” a few months after the vaccination.
“Loneliness, plus Covid … led me to a very broken place,” she added. “Getting out of it just with a child you feel you can’t help is a position that can lead you to total asceticism – or make you a warrior mother.”
Appearing on Roseanne Barr’s program on September 27, Shanahan said: “The people I’m going to talk to in the next few weeks before the election are mothers who (a) don’t like Donald Trump because they see him as. a misogynist.”
But she claimed that Trump “respects family” and that he “respects a mother for being a mother.”
The Post it was reported that Shanahan texted the associate in June who had been contacted by the newspaper earlier as Shanahan wanted to propose a deal. He claimed that he would “pay your friend,” the reporter The Post“half a million dollars to be a whistleblower” for reporting on people who he denies sharing false information about him. It was sent to a Post reporter, who did not respond.
After receiving a list of questions from the paper, Shanahan said he turned down the part The Post reports but does not provide specific answers to questions.
“I’m sorry if you feel it’s appropriate to do this for political motivation,” he told the paper. “What a sad state our country is in.”
A spokesman Brin told post, “Unfortunately, this and other reports include inaccuracies about Sergey and his family.”
