of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and their 2023 divorce settlement reportedly left her with more than $1 billion. As Kennedy’s running mate, she donated millions to help his campaign.
Kennedy and Shanahan ended their bid for the White House in August, with Kennedy endorsing Trump. Shanahan has since fashioned herself into a pro-Trump wellness guru.
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Kennedy, the nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine advocate, said recently that Trump has promised him “control” of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture. Trump said at his Madison Square Garden rally this week that he would let Kennedy “go wild on the medicines.”
Shanahan has spoken on TV and podcasts in support of Trump’s candidacy, and funded pro-Trump videos, including one criticizing Democrats for having “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
She said during the Carlson event that she was about to become “a first-time Trump voter,” eliciting raucous cheers as she filled out what she said was her actual ballot.
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Shanahan was not the headliner at Carlson’s event, which was held in Glendale, Arizona. That was Trump, who made news by airing a fantasy of prominent Trump critic and former Congresswoman Liz Cheney having guns “trained on her face.” The GOP nominee called her a “radical war hawk.”
“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump said.
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