BRAIN WORMS & BILLIONS
Is Nicole Shanahan The Most Dangerous Woman In America?
The ex-wife of Google's Sergey Brin poured divorce money into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign and became his running mate, with potentially cataclysmic consequences.
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The Lede
Interviews with 10 people who have been close to Nicole Shanahan, and several others in her orbit, reveal two deeply polarized camps. Her acolytes see the consummate American success story: the child of impoverished parents who battled her way to prosperity. The other faction is aghast that Shanahan, in a highly unlikely alternative reality, could be one beating heart away from the presidency — or, more believably, that she and Kennedy will help tilt the election to Donald Trump.
Key Details
- “Other than the fact that she has a bunch of money, I don’t know why anyone would vote for her to run anything,” one of her detractors told us. "And I don’t just mean vice president.”
- “I think if you knew her at that time, you would definitely get the sense that her ambition sort of eclipsed being liked... It was very much like, OK, I'm going to do something big.”
- "The idea that someone like Nicole Shanahan, who has no formal training in medicine or science, appoints herself an expert is just ridiculous.”
