Experiencing lawfare firsthand had Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate expressing a change of heart amid the latest legal salvo against former President Donald Trump.
While the environmental attorney will officially take on a role with the GOP leader’s transition team should victory be found in November, his suspended campaign continued to wage a fight for ballot access outside of the battleground states.
This included in New York where entrepreneur and Kennedy running mate Nicole Shanahan said she was made to feel “like a criminal” during a recent cross-examination as she confessed, “OK, I get it now.”
Sharing a CNN report on the superseding indictment from Special Counsel Jack Smith that pared down the allegations against the president due to the Supreme Court ruling on immunity, Shanahan wrote, “I’ll admit I used to kind of roll my eyes when people claimed that President Trump was being ‘persecuted.’ I was looking at it through the distorted filter of the media.”
“Well, I just completed my first cross-examination in our second New York Ballot Access case, where the DNC-aligned PAC attorneys questioned me like a criminal,” she explained. “OK, I get it now. Our justice system is clearly being co-opted and abused by nefarious people with malevolent political agendas.”
I’ll admit I used to kind of roll my eyes when people claimed that President Trump was being “persecuted.” I was looking at it through the distorted filter of the media. Well, I just completed my first cross-examination in our second New York Ballot Access case, where the… pic.twitter.com/7zTfi4FQ6K
— Nicole Shanahan (@NicoleShanahan) August 27, 2024
The challenge for ballot access in the Empire State resulted in Kennedy being bumped after a judge determined the bedroom he rented in Westchester County could not be considered a “bona fide and legitimate residence, but merely a ‘sham’ address that he assumed for the purpose of maintaining his voter registration.”
Meanwhile, as the candidate’s campaign suspension included his decision to pull his name from ballots in battleground states, NPR reported that rules in Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Wisconsin were preventing him from withdrawing.
“Every state has different procedures and deadlines with regard to ballot access and withdrawal, but the later a withdrawal happens, the harder it is for a state to remove a name from a ballot,” Center for Election Innovation & Research Executive Director David Becker told NPR. “Some states have deadlines that have passed, and many states have already begun the process of printing ballots.”
In addition to addressing the political persecution of Trump, Shanahan also called out the attacks from the left against Kennedy for supporting the president that included suggestions he should be committed to a “rubber room.”
Tuesday, she joined Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” where the host played criticism from MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell who contended Kennedy had “fully disgraced” his father’s name while Democratic strategist James Carville pegged the former candidate “at the top of” America’s “mental health crisis.”
“This is wild. I’m asking myself what happened to the party of ‘when they go low, we go high,’ ’cause right now, they’re just going lower and lower and lower,” she told host Jesse Watters. “And I’m shocked, I’m saddened, I’m worried for them, honestly.”
“They’ve lost their soul. They’ve lost their direction.”
(Video Credit: Fox News)
Later in the interview, she described Kennedy as “one of the kindest” people she’s known without a “bone of revenge” in his body before detailing the objective of supporting the Trump campaign.
“Making America healthy again is admitting the fact that we have the highest chronic health disease rate of any modern nation,” she said. “We spend $4.6 trillion on health care. It doesn’t seem to be getting us anywhere, so it’s really asking the hard question of why is our healthcare system not delivering healthy people?”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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