RFK's Anti-Vax "Vaccine Victim" Just Got Indicted for Murdering Her Own Twins

RFK's Anti-Vax "Vaccine Victim" Just Got Indicted for Murdering Her Own Twins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com [https://michaelfanone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] For more than a year, the anti-vaccine movement had its perfect martyr. A young mother in Idaho. Two healthy eighteen-month-old twins, a boy and a girl. A routine checkup — and within days, both babies dead in a shared bed. RFK Jr. and his people at Health and Human Services rushed to make her the example they needed to sell their anti-vax b******t to the country. Her name is Andrea Shaw. Days after those two children were found dead, she was sitting on a podcast produced by Children’s Health Defense — the anti-vaccine organization RFK Jr. founded and ran for years, the same man who now runs the entire Department of Health and Human Services and sets vaccine policy for this country. On that show, she told the world the shots did it. Three vaccines at an eighteen-month well-baby visit, and her twins were gone. They didn’t stop at the podcast. Children’s Health Defense put her name on a federal lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics, accusing the doctors who write the childhood vaccine schedule of defrauding families. There was a fundraiser bolted onto it — ten thousand dollars and counting, pulled from people who believed every word they were handed. Here’s what those donors weren’t told. On June 29, a grand jury in Idaho indicted Andrea Shaw on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of those same two children. Police picked her up in Boise, booked her into the Ada County Jail, and held her on a two-million-dollar bond. And according to the reporting out of Boise, the indictment doesn’t mention a vaccine anywhere. It alleges she suffocated them. Now I want to be careful here. Andrea Shaw has been indicted. She has not been convicted. She is entitled to a trial and to the presumption of innocence, and the official cause of death still has not been released to the public. That is how this is supposed to work. You investigate. You gather the evidence. A grand jury weighs it. And a jury decides. Nobody should get ahead of that, including me. But look at what that careful process exposes — because it’s the exact thing the anti-vaccine movement refused to do. They didn’t wait for the medical examiner. They didn’t wait for the investigation. They didn’t wait for one confirmed fact. Two babies were dead, and days later these people had a culprit named, a lawsuit drafted, and a donation link live. The vaccine did it. Case closed. Send money. That’s the whole problem with these people, right there. They decided the answer before they ever looked at the question. I spent years working cases. I watched what happens when somebody walks onto a scene already certain they know who did it and how. They stop seeing what’s actually in front of them. They bend every fact to fit the story they carried in the door. That’s not an investigation. That’s blind faith. And faith is a beautiful thing inside a church — it’s a catastrophe when you’re writing federal health policy with it. Watch how they built it. In their own lawsuit, they point to an ER visit a week before the twins died, where the intake was coded as a reaction related to a recent immunization. And they wave that around like a verdict. But anybody who’s ever sat through a death investigation can tell you an intake code is not a cause of death. It’s a note about why somebody walked into the ER that day. Figuring out what actually killed a child is the medical examiner’s job — it takes weeks, sometimes months, and it’s exactly the work these folks skipped so they could get to the fundraiser faster. Now understand where this movement lives. This isn’t a fringe message board. Children’s Health Defense is the organization Robert Kennedy built with his own hands. And Kennedy isn’t a podcast guest anymore. He’s the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He oversees the CDC. He removed the sitting members of the federal vaccine advisory committee and replaced them with his own picks. The instinct on display in this Idaho case — blame the vaccine first, never revisit it — is the same instinct now sitting at the very top of American public health. Think about what that means for a regular family at a pediatrician’s office. A movement that will look at two dead toddlers and reach for a vaccine story before the bodies are cold is now writing the rules for which shots your kids get and what your doctor is even allowed to tell you. When measles came roaring back and children died, that was the cost of this thinking. When they’re wrong about the next thing, children pay for that one too. This isn’t a debate club. There are real consequences, and American kids are the ones paying. And here’s the piece that sends it over the top. Her own attorney — even now, with his client indicted for the murder of those two babies — is still going on the record telling reporters he believes the vaccine did it. That’s how deep this runs. The story is load-bearing. They can’t put it down, because the story raises the money. It beefs up the lawsuits. It drives the clicks. It helped get a man confirmed to run HHS. The facts were never the point of any of it. So the next time somebody in this administration parades out a vaccine victim, ask them the one question they never ask themselves. Where’s the proof? Where is the actual evidence? Because in Idaho, once the professionals finished the work this movement raced right past, the story didn’t hold. A grand jury looked at the same two deaths a podcast had already ruled on — and reached a very different conclusion. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

Hakeem Jeffries Won't Fight. That's the Whole Problem.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com [https://michaelfanone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] The party’s on fire, and its would-be leader went quiet. There’s a real fight tearing through the Democratic caucus, and the man who wants to be the next Speaker of the House looked at it, watched his own members go at each other’s throats, and decided the smartest thing he could do was keep his mouth shut. Here’s how it happened. There’s an amendment on the table from a Republican — Thomas Massie of Kentucky — that would cut off aid to Israel and slash more than three billion dollars in foreign military aid on top of it. It was headed for a vote before Republicans blew up their own agenda and sent everyone home early for the holiday. But before they cleared out, that amendment cracked the Democratic caucus wide open. On one side, progressives who want to vote for it. On the other, moderates and leadership types who say the bill is written so badly it could choke off humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the process. That’s a genuine disagreement. Nobody’s faking it. So what did Hakeem Jeffries do to lead his people through it? He booked two closed-door meetings, let everybody vent for an hour apiece, and then told reporters he’d share his own position later — once a vote is, in his word, “confirmed.” When POLITICO asked him flat out where he stands, he said a lot needs to happen to get to a just and lasting peace, and that everyone should focus on a two-state solution once and for all. In other words, he reached for something so vague it could’ve come out of a fortune cookie. I’ll be fair, because there’s a version of this his supporters sell as a virtue. Some members came out of those rooms happy. They liked the space to talk it through. A few called it a model for how he’d run things as Speaker — he listens, he doesn’t bash heads, he lets everybody have their say. And fine. Listening is a skill. Making your people feel heard is a real part of earning their respect. But listening isn’t leading, and somewhere along the way this party started confusing the two. Leadership is the part that comes after you hear them out. You take in the facts, you weigh both sides, and then you plant your feet and say: here’s where I stand, here’s why, and now I’m going to go convince the rest of you I’m right. That last part is the job. That’s the entire job. Jeffries does the easy ninety percent and quietly skips the ten percent that actually costs him something. And this has been his MO from day one. Go back to the fight over renewing a massive government surveillance power — one of the biggest civil-liberties votes of the year, the kind you build a reputation on. Where was he? In the background. He let two other members make the case for and against and stayed out of it. The caucus split right down the middle, ninety-four to eighty-five, and the leader was a spectator to his own party’s biggest argument. Now, the man can flip the switch when he wants to. When Trump tried to install a MAGA loyalist to run national intelligence, Jeffries rallied damn near the whole caucus to block it, and he did it fast. So he’s capable. He knows how to lead. He just chooses to do it when it’s safe. When the whole room already agrees and there’s zero cost, he’ll step out front and wave the flag. When it’s genuinely hard — when picking a side might cost him something inside his own tent — he goes quiet and waits to see which way the room breaks. That’s not leadership. That’s reading the weather. And this isn’t some inside-baseball process story. The party is getting torn apart from the inside right now over exactly this issue. Look at the 2026 primaries: incumbents getting knocked off by challengers hammering them for taking pro-Israel money. The ground is moving under everyone’s feet at once. And into that moment, with his own members desperate for someone to point a direction, the top of the party’s answer is to schedule another meeting that could’ve been an email. One of his own members said it plainly: the people who aren’t foreign policy experts, who don’t have a fixed position, are looking for guidance. That’s the whole tell. Grown members of Congress are begging the top of the party to just tell them where to stand, and they’re handed a suggestion box and a whole lot of I’ll decide my opinion once my opinion is decided. This is what wears on me about Democratic leadership. When the s**t hits the fan and every single person is looking to whoever’s in charge, nobody’s home. Nobody will stand up, meet the moment, and make a damn decision until it costs them nothing to make it. The reflex is to duck, dodge, and wait for a consensus to form on its own so no one ever has to own the call. You don’t beat what this party is up against by playing it safe. The Republican Party is a spineless cult of personality — but their leaders will back whatever unconstitutional thing Trump tells them to, get their people in line, and then run at you at full speed. And the plan to answer that is to gather your team for a group therapy session? I don’t need Hakeem Jeffries to agree with me on every issue. Democrats don’t need a leader who makes everyone feel warm and gooey inside. They need conviction. They need action. They need a fighter. Instead they’ve got a guy who can’t even say this is what I think. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

They Called Her a Patriot. She Killed a Mother of Two. This Is Who Trump Called a "Hostage"

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com [https://michaelfanone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] Trump called her a hostage. She killed a mother of two. For four years we’ve been fed a story about January 6. The people who stormed the Capitol weren’t rioters, they were patriots. Not criminals — political prisoners. On a rally stage in Ohio in March 2024, Trump saluted while an announcer had the crowd rise for the “horribly and unfairly treated January 6 hostages.” He played a recording of them singing the anthem from jail. He called them unbelievable patriots. He called January 6 a day of love. And he promised that on day one he’d set them free. He kept it. On his first day back in office, he signed a blanket clemency order covering nearly 1,600 people. Almost all of them got full, unconditional pardons. The trespassers and the people who tried to kill me on the Capitol steps walked free, as if none of it happened. So let me introduce you to one of these patriots. Then you tell me if that’s the word you’d use. Her name is Emily Hernandez. You’ve seen the photo even if you don’t know the name — she’s the one inside the Capitol holding a broken nameplate torn off the door of the Speaker of the House. That image went viral and became one of the defining pictures of the day. She pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor, entering and remaining in a restricted building, and served thirty days. By the standard of what happened that day she wasn’t one of the worst, and the judge gave her a light touch. When Trump signed his order, Emily Hernandez got her pardon along with everybody else. A patriot, cleared. A political prisoner, freed. That’s the story they want in your head. Here’s what the word patriot is covering for. On January 5, 2022 — almost a year to the day after she trespassed into the Capitol — Emily Hernandez got behind the wheel drunk. Her blood alcohol was .125. The legal limit is .08. She was well past it. And she drove the wrong way down an interstate in Missouri. Sit with that. Headlights coming straight at her, and she keeps going. Then she crashed head-on into another car. Inside it were Victoria and Ryan Wilson, a married couple out celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary. A truck driver who saw it said the crash looked like an explosion. Victoria Wilson — thirty-two years old, a mother of two — died of her injuries. Ryan survived with a foot injury that left him disabled. Fifteen years of marriage, and the anniversary ended with one of them dead on a highway and the other one widowed and broken. In November, Emily Hernandez pleaded guilty in Missouri state court to two counts: DWI causing death, and DWI causing serious physical injury. Her own attorneys asked the judge for 120 days. Four months. They wrote that she felt remorse, that she was ashamed, that she’d carry the grief forever. The judge wasn’t moved. Ten years for Victoria. Another seven for what she did to Ryan, served at the same time. Outside the courthouse, Victoria’s mother told the cameras there’s an empty hole in her heart that will never close. Two kids are growing up without their mother because a drunk driver pointed a car the wrong way down an interstate. Now hold both pictures of Emily side by side. This is the person the President stood on a stage and called a hostage. This is the political prisoner whose so-called persecution was supposedly a stain on the country. This is one of the “unbelievable patriots” — a woman who killed a mother of two driving drunk the wrong way down a highway, and whose own lawyers begged for four months. Unbelievable, all right. You don’t need to be a cop to know a patriot doesn’t smash into the Capitol to stop the lawful counting of votes. A patriot doesn’t rip a piece of the Speaker’s office off the wall and pose for the cameras. And a patriot sure as hell doesn’t get loaded, drive the wrong way down an interstate, and leave two kids without their mom. That word is supposed to mean something. Love of country. Sacrifice. Service. When you’ve spent a career actually serving and you watch people drape it over criminals and derelicts, there aren’t words for the level of betrayal it provokes. Here’s what the blanket pardon really tells you, and it’s the thing to walk away with. When you sign one order cutting loose 1,600 people, you are not making 1,600 careful judgments about who deserves mercy. You’re not separating the nonviolent trespasser from the man who maced a cop. You’re not separating the kid swept up in a crowd from the woman who’d be convicted of killing someone behind the wheel. You throw the doors open and stamp “patriot” on every single one of them, sight unseen. That’s the tell. That’s how you know the label was never honest. If January 6 was really about patriotism, you could afford to look closely — this one was nonviolent, this one assaulted an officer, this one is a genuine danger. A real reckoning survives scrutiny. But they didn’t look closely, because looking closely destroys the story. Emily Hernandez destroys the story. Victoria Wilson’s empty chair at the dinner table destroys the story. So they don’t look. They just keep saying the words. Hostages. Patriots. Political prisoners. Day of love. They say it until history gets rewritten and criminals go back to their lives while the truth gets erased — the truth of the cops beaten on those steps, the officers who died in the days after, and a thirty-two-year-old mother who had nothing to do with January 6 and is dead because one of these “patriots” got behind the wheel drunk. Calling them patriots doesn’t honor this country. It doesn’t even honor them. It spits on the people they hurt, and on every real patriot who laid down their life for this place. Emily Hernandez got a pardon for January 6. She’s spending the next ten years in a Missouri prison anyway. And the only reason the word patriot ever got near her name is that somebody needed her — and 1,500 others — to prop up one big fat lie. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

Trump Made $2.2 BILLION Off the Presidency Last Year. His Own White House Filed the Proof.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com [https://michaelfanone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] Two point two billion dollars. That’s what Donald Trump made last year — not his companies in some abstract sense, him, personally. And the reason we know the number is that his own White House dropped his annual financial disclosure with his signature at the bottom. The year before he returned to office, his businesses brought in $622 million. One year back in the White House, that number more than tripled. Go line by line through where the new money came from, and almost all of it traces back to people, industries, and foreign governments that need something from his administration. This is the most corrupt administration in American history, by a long shot — and don’t take my word for it. Presidential historians who study this for a living looked at 250 years of records and couldn’t find a single president who started new businesses on his way into the White House and then kept personally cashing in on them while he governed. One called it completely unprecedented. Another called it one of the greatest betrayals of the American social contract since the founding. So let me take you through it piece by piece, because each story is bad on its own, but you only understand what this really is when you see them stacked together. Start with crypto, because that’s where the bulk of it came from. To date, Trump has pulled roughly four billion dollars in a single year out of the family’s crypto ventures — and remember, this is a man who used to trash crypto as a haven for drug dealers and scammers. Right up until he stood to gain. Once he saw the upside, the family launched World Liberty Financial right before the election, built so the house always wins: seventy-five percent of every token sale flows to a Trump entity after expenses. He gets paid whether the coin goes up or down. That one company put $799 million in his pocket last year. Meanwhile his administration spent the same year pulling back crypto enforcement and gutting the rules. Then he pardoned Changpeng Zhao — the Binance founder, the richest man in crypto, and a business partner of his family’s own venture. The president of the United States used the pardon power on his business partner. Say that sentence out loud and tell me it isn’t as corrupt as it gets. Now look at who else is paying. Days before the inauguration, an investment firm tied to the government of the United Arab Emirates bought forty-nine percent of World Liberty. A foreign government, buying half the president’s company. Months later the Emiratis got something they wanted badly — approval to import advanced American AI chips, over the objections of our own national security officials. Our people said don’t do this. They lost. The chips are moving, and the filing shows investments that generated more than $200 million for Trump. Then the memecoin. He launched Trumpcoin three days before the inauguration, and the industry threw a party in Washington they called the Crypto Ball. Weeks later the SEC announced that memecoins don’t fall under its oversight, reversing the position it held under the last administration. The coin made him more than $600 million. And here’s the part his supporters need to hear: the price has collapsed about eighty percent. He got paid on the way up. The ordinary people who bought in because his name was on it ate the loss. That’s not a conflict of interest. That’s a con job. Then the real estate. First term, the family publicly swore off new foreign deals. This time, no such promise. New licensing deals in Saudi Arabia — including one involving the Saudi government itself — and in Qatar, which also handed the United States a Boeing jet that Trump now flies as Air Force One. In Vietnam, officials fast-tracked a Trump golf development while their country was desperate to talk him out of steep tariffs. Middle East deals alone brought in at least $35 million. None of these governments is confused about what they’re buying. Access to the American presidency is for sale, and they’re paying the man who holds it. Then the media money. After January 6th, Meta and other platforms banned him. They’ve now settled his lawsuits and agreed to pay him millions. ABC settled. Paramount paid him millions over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview. And while those checks were clearing, his FCC chairman was threatening broadcasters’ licenses and his Justice Department cleared the merger putting CBS News and CNN under one owner. These companies need his government’s permission to operate. They paid him first. Call it a settlement if you want. I call it offering their god a sacrifice they know will get his attention. His defense, when he got asked about it, is ridiculous. He said he never speaks to the people who run the money, then said you know why I’m profiting? Because the stock market is going up. The Times reported he meets with his financial advisers for updates — but set that aside, because the bigger problem is simple math. The stock market didn’t buy half his crypto company. The stock market didn’t pay him for his name on a Saudi tower. A rising market doesn’t explain a foreign government wiring money into your family business four months before you approve its chip deal. His own defense doesn’t survive contact with his own disclosure. The sons-run-the-business line is just as hollow. Sure, Eric and Don Jr. manage the operations. But the trusts they control exist for one beneficiary — their father. The money lands in his account every single time. Here’s what every other president understood. Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a trust run by an outside trustee. A peanut farm. George W. Bush sold his stake in the Texas Rangers before he ran. Lady Bird Johnson handed her radio stations to an independent trust. For 250 years the standard was that you don’t just avoid corruption, you avoid the appearance of it. Historians say holding office usually cost presidents money. Trump looked at that entire tradition and saw suckers. Eric Trump said it plainly before the election: we can’t just sit out in perpetuity, and I won’t. There’s the whole philosophy. The presidency isn’t a public trust anymore. It’s the family’s biggest asset. And he’s not even hiding it. That’s what the disclosure proves. He put every dollar on a government form, signed his name, and handed it in — because he’s decided nothing and nobody will stop him. So far he’s been right. Whether this is happening isn’t up for debate anymore. He documented it himself. The only real question left is what we do with a president who’s openly for sale — and whether we’ve quietly decided to live with it, and be taken for the fools he thinks we are. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!

The Study Trump Doesn't Want You to See: The National Guard Did NOTHING

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelfanone.substack.com [https://michaelfanone.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] They told you it was about crime. It wasn’t. That was the whole pitch — armed soldiers on the streets of the capital, M17 pistols and M4 rifles, posted at Metro stations and the Lincoln Memorial, because Washington was supposedly so dangerous it needed a military response. Trump called DC one of the most dangerous cities in the world, declared a crime emergency, and sent in the troops. Now we have the receipts. The Niskanen Center, a nonpartisan think tank, studied what nearly a year of National Guard deployment actually accomplished. On violent crime — the robberies, the assaults, the thing they sold you on, the stuff that makes people afraid to walk home — the report found no measurable effect. None. What did move was the small stuff. Property crime and car break-ins fell about 24 percent. So if your worry was somebody jiggling a door handle on a parked Honda, congratulations, the United States military was on it. Violent crime was already trending down before Trump took office, and the Guard made no measurable dent in it. And the study explains why. The researchers found the Guard was deployed in “the wrong places for the wrong types of crime.” Think about where you actually saw these troops — tourist corridors, transit hubs, the Mall, the shopping blocks of Georgetown. Exactly the spots where a uniform deters a smash-and-grab. But real violence doesn’t happen on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. It happens between people who already know each other, on their own turf, away from the cameras. They put the soldiers where the tourists were, not where the danger was. Here’s the line the White House wants buried. Asked for comment, the administration dismissed the study as out of touch, called the authors keyboard warriors, and claimed Trump turned DC into a safe and beautiful haven. No data. No evidence. Just the word “beautiful” doing a lot of heavy lifting. Now the cost — and it’s your money, wherever you live. Start with one soldier: about $607 a day. A Metropolitan Police officer — an actual trained cop with arrest powers — runs $384. So we paid nearly double per head for people who legally can’t even make an arrest. Scale it up and the Congressional Budget Office puts the DC operation at roughly $1.5 million a day. A Senate report projects the full year north of $600 million. That number eclipses the entire budget of the Metropolitan Police Department and its 4,900 real officers. We spent more parking soldiers next to monuments than we spend on the whole professional police force of the city. And the study’s kicker: a smarter, data-driven deployment of actual police could have gotten comparable or better results for a fraction of the cost. We didn’t buy safety. We bought a big-budget blockbuster with a garbage script. Now the part that doesn’t get enough airtime, and should make every American sit up regardless of party. These aren’t federal robots. The troops came from DC and more than a dozen states — and the staffing tells the story. Early on, 98 percent of the troops flooding the District came from states with Republican governors. Military historians called the scale of that without precedent. Six red-state governors volunteered their people: West Virginia, Ohio, South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana. Think about what that means back home. You pull a guardsman off their job, their family, their actual state readiness mission, and ship them to Washington to pose with tourists. The ACLU of West Virginia sued to block its own governor from sending three to four hundred troops, arguing he’d exceeded his authority. And the Guard already learned this lesson the hard way — after January 6th, when 25,000 troops flooded DC, the Army National Guard warned the diversion drained money from real training and readiness. That’s the burden nobody puts on the invoice. Every soldier standing on a quiet Metro platform is a soldier not training, not available for a real emergency, not home. And the states exporting them have cities with worse violence than Washington. Shreveport, Louisiana has a higher murder rate than DC. The governors sending troops to fix the capital are stepping over crime in their own backyards to do it. Here’s where it goes from wasteful to alarming. They’re not winding this down. They’re scaling it up. The administration requested another 1,500 troops ahead of the country’s 250th birthday, pushing toward a force of 5,000. Trump has said there are no plans for the Guard to leave the capital anytime soon — and we now have a study proving the first round didn’t move the one thing they claimed to care about. So ask the question the data forces. If the Guard didn’t touch violent crime, and it costs $1.5 million a day, and it drains readiness from a dozen states, and the answer to all of that is send more — then crime was never the point. The presence was the point. Getting Americans used to armed soldiers on their own streets was the point. A retired general who ran the National Guard Bureau called it exactly that: desensitizing the public to military patrols in American cities. I spent twenty years policing this city. You fight crime with cops who know the blocks, not soldiers posed for a photo op. The study is the proof. The cost is the receipt. The surge is the confession. They told you it was about crime. The numbers say clear as day they were lying. 🟧 Paid subscribers get 15% off your next merch order🟧 Founding Members get 20% off for life You’ll get the link in your welcome email. GET DISCOUNTS BELOW! ENJOY!