RFK Jr.'s billionaire contestant has rebranded herself as a MAGA health guru

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s old vice president, Nicole Shanahan, is in the midst of transforming into a MAGA health influencer.

Shanahan was a Democrat until earlier this year. She then became RFK Jr.'s vice president as an independent candidate, but recently appeared alongside Tucker Carlson at an event outside of Houston. Other guests during Carlson's live tour included Alex Jones, Donald Trump Jr. and Charlie Kirk.

Once one of Silicon Valley's elite circles, the lawyer and tech entrepreneur is now using her sizable divorce settlement with Google co-founder Sergey Brin to become an influencer and what she calls a “warrior mother,” the way she urges women to support her outlandish medical views and also supports former President Donald Trump The 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.”

She has distanced herself from her old tech friends, claiming that they want to use technology to overcome hurdles such as age and other limitations in life. She has indicated that she believes vaccinations caused her daughter's autism and that she was “not allowed to think about it” while in Silicon Valley. She has also hinted that she may be interested in running for governor of California.

She has noted that not all of her political views necessarily “overlap” with Trump's, but she has nonetheless pushed his candidacy through appearances on Fox News, on podcasts and on her social media accounts.

Shanahan said Trump was a “former enemy” who had become a “partner in time of need.”

“Sergei gave her money so that she wouldn’t do harmful things to him,” one person said The post. “So now she’s doing harmful things to the country.”

Shanahan has suggested that her support for Trump stems from her disappointment with the medical field and Democrats. She has accused Democrats of trying to shut down the Kennedy campaign and described them as controlled by elitist groupthink.

She brought her “Make America Healthy Again” ideas to a group of left-leaning 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 wondered if “environmental toxins” had hurt her young daughter.

The billionaire said the experience of her daughter being diagnosed with autism at 18 months led her to engage with marginal health ideas and right-wing politics.

“I swear to God, I gave birth to a healthy baby girl,” she told Carlson. She claimed that her daughter became “a different child” a few months after the vaccination.

“The loneliness and Covid… led me to a place of utter destruction,” she added. “Getting out of there all on your own with a child you can’t help is a situation that will either lead you to total hermitage – or make you a belligerent mother.”

On Roseanne Barr's Sept. 27 show, Shanahan said, “The people I'll be talking to in the next few weeks leading up to the election are mothers who have an aversion to Donald Trump because that's what they see him as.” a misogynist.”

But she claimed that Trump “respects family” and that he “respects a mother being a mother.”

The post reported that in June, Shanahan texted an employee who had previously been contacted by the newspaper because Shanahan wanted to propose a deal. She claimed she was paying “her boyfriend” to be a reporter The post“half a million dollars to be a whistleblower” to report on people she claimed had shared false information about her. This was sent to a post Reporter who did not respond.

After receiving a list of questions from the newspaper, Shanahan said she rejected parts of them The post reported, but did not provide specific answers to the questions.

“I am so sorry that you feel it is appropriate to do this for political reasons,” she told the newspaper. “It’s a very sad state our country is in.”

A Brin spokesman said this The post, “Unfortunately, this and other reports contain inaccuracies about Sergey and his family.”