On Tuesday, Nicole Shanahan, former running mate of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., criticized the justice system after news broke that special counsel Jack Smith had filed a new grand jury indictment against former President Donald Trump. Shanahan expressed her concerns about the political motivations behind the legal actions.
“I used to roll my eyes when people said President Trump was being ‘persecuted.’ I saw it through the biased lens of the media,” Shanahan wrote.
Shanahan, an attorney, reflected on her own experience with the justice system, saying, “I just finished my first cross-examination in our second New York Ballot Access case, where DNC-aligned PAC attorneys treated me like a criminal. Now, I understand. Our justice system is being co-opted and misused by individuals with malevolent political agendas.”
Last week, Shanahan accused the Democratic Party of sabotaging her and Kennedy’s campaign from within before they ended their presidential bid and Kennedy endorsed Trump for a second term.
In an interview on Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Shanahan said, “I trust the future of this country more under the leadership of Trump, [Peter] Thiel, and JD Vance than under Harris and Reid Hoffman.”
Shanahan also criticized the DNC-aligned Clear Choice PAC for allegedly spending millions to undermine their campaign. She claimed the PAC was “specifically created to take us out” and that its efforts turned their campaign into “a spoiler.”
“We wanted to win, we wanted a fair shot. The DNC made that impossible,” Shanahan stated. “They banned us, shadowbanned us, kept us off stages, manipulated polls, used lawfare against us, and sued us in nearly every state. They even planted insiders in our campaign to create legal issues. The level of sabotage we’ve faced is staggering, and we’re still uncovering new ways they’ve tried to undermine us.”