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A number of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists have claimed to be “working with,” consulting, or sending recommendations about public health policy to President Donald Trump’s advisors — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been voted out of committee and is awaiting a full Senate confirmation vote to lead Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services.
During Trump’s campaign, post-election period, and now as Kennedy awaits confirmation during Trump’s second term, these figures — some of whom also traffic in other types of extremism, such as antisemitism and the QAnon conspiracy theory — have apparently been consulting or speaking with Trump officials and Kennedy’s associates.
- ## Christiane Northrup
- Christiane Northrup is a health misinformer who has claimed COVID-19 “was part of a plot involving Deep State brainwashing and treacherous depopulation schemes,” “called the Centers for Disease Control a ‘covid death cult,’ and described the [COVID-19] vaccines as crimes against humanity.” She has also repeatedly promoted pro-Nazi, antisemitic, and QAnon material. On January 28 — the day before Kennedy’s confirmation hearing — she made an appearance on antisemitic QAnon supporter Scott McKay’s podcast Patriot Streetfighter. During the interview she was asked if she would be “moving into that RFK pipeline to work with everything he’s going to work on.” In response, Northrup said that she was “working with people who are working in there.”
- ## Pete Evans
- Pete Evans is an Australian chef and TV personality who has pushed COVID-19 and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and published a book with Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization. He also reportedly posted a Nazi symbol online. On January 31, a few days after Kennedy’s confirmation hearing, he told a QAnon-affiliated podcast that he had “spoken to Bobby Kennedy” about “ingredients that are labeled on food” and about creating “a government website or Make America Healthy Again website” with the “correct information … about dietary advice.” He said it could be “with or without my name associated with it.”
- ## Robert Malone
- Robert Malone is a doctor known for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and its treatments, and he has ties to other conspiracy theorists. He told the Epoch Times-affiliated outlet NTD in November that he had “spoken at length with some of the people that are very close to Bobby [Kennedy] that are involved in the transition and the planning” about “major structural changes across HHS.” On a podcast a few days later, Malone went further, claiming that he had even been “asked by somebody in the transition team … to lay out thoughts about how [the] FDA could be reformed” and speculating that he might find himself “on the inside.” A few days after the 2024 election, CBS News reported that Malone said “he had spoken with many of the aides from some of the ‘at least four different HHS transition teams’ under Trump … in recent weeks about the future of the department.”
- ## Thomas Renz
- Thomas Renz is an attorney who has pursued litigation over, and pushed misinformation about, COVID vaccines, and he has partnered with QAnon figures for some of those efforts. On his podcast in November, Renz said regarding vaccines that he would “write out a couple of different things … so that, you know, day one, my recommendation for a few different things and send it over” to Kennedy, with whom he said he had “spoken at length a few different times.” (Renz did note that he doesn’t “know whether he’ll [Kennedy will] listen or not.“)
- ## Mikki Willis
- Mikki Willis is the director behind the viral COVID-19 conspiracy theory video Plandemic and has been friendly with at least one QAnon figure. On social media in November, he claimed that “many of [Trump’s] new appointees are personal friends of” his and that he was “privy to private conversations taking place behind the scenes, and what I’m hearing is profoundly inspiring.”
- ## Charlene Bollinger
- Charlene Bollinger is a fringe commentator and anti-vaccine activist whose social media account has spread antisemitism and QAnon conspiracy theories in addition to targeting vaccines. Before the election, she told One America News that she was “working with a number of people” in Trump’s transition team “to put together something beautiful so that Bobby Kennedy can roll out his vision and we get to be a part of this.”
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Close RFK Jr. friend whose account promoted “Jew World Order” conspiracy theory says she’s “working with” Trump’s transition team
Charlene and Ty Bollinger have also promoted QAnon and conspiracy theories about vaccines, cancer prevention, 9/11, and the 2020 presidential election
Written by Eric Hananoki
Published 11/02/24 mma
CitationAn image posted to Charlene and Ty Bollinger's Instagram account.
Charlene Bollinger is a fringe commentator whose account endorsed threads praising Adolf Hitler and pushing claims about a “Jew World Order.” She recently said that she’s “part of” and “working with” former President Donald Trump’s transition team to help close friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
During a November 1 interview on One America News’ Real America with Dan Ball, Bollinger said: “The transition team right now is being put together behind the scenes. I am working with a number of people to put together something beautiful so that Bobby Kennedy can roll out his vision and we get to be a part of this.”
Ball replied: “That's awesome. I didn't know that. So you're going to help with the transition and getting people in place to help Bobby clean up these agencies.”
Bollinger also said she's “working with the [Trump] transition team” in a November 1 video.
Shestated: “We have been supporting Donald Trump since he came down that escalator. We've been friends for Bobby even longer, and we've been working with both of these amazing men. And here we are now working with the transition team to be able to get what we do out in a bigger way, the solutions that we have been able to give millions.” Bollingeradded: “If you want Bobby Kennedy to help you, you’ve got to vote for Donald Trump because we're working with that team and we're going to bring the real solutions in a bigger way. We're so excited.”
Kennedy is closely connected to Charlene Bollinger
CitationA photo of RFK Jr. and Charlene Bollinger, along with Mike Flynn and Roger Stone, via the Associated Press.
Former presidential candidate Kennedy is part of Trump’s transition team, and Trump has said he’ll have a “big role in health care” if Trump wins.
Kennedy has worked closely with Charlene and her husband Ty Bollinger over the years. Here are just some of his many connections to the couple:
- The Associated Press reported in 2021 that the Bollingers have worked “closely” with Kennedy, including through Kennedy’s nonprofit Children’s Health Defense. (Kennedy is currently on leave from the group.)
- Kennedy told them last year: “Love you two warriors!”
- Charlene Bollinger interviewed Kennedy in a video that had QAnon branding.
- The Bollingers’ account posted a picture of Kennedy with Charlene Bollinger and wrote: “#TeamKennedy #Kennedy24.” (Charlene Bollinger was also in an group picture featuring Kennedy, Mike Flynn, and Roger Stone.)
- Charlene Bollinger wrote of Kennedy: “Ty and I are very close with Bobby and he really is the real deal.”
- Kennedy appeared at the Bollingers' conference in 2019.
On October 30, the Bollingers wrote on their shared social media account: “@RobertKennedyJr is on the Trump team and is going to be working with us to ensure we build better health solutions for Americans.”
The Bollingers repeatedly endorsed antisemitism, including a thread about a “Jew World Order”
The Bollingers post on social media through a shared account (“TTAVOfficial”). On that account, the Bollingers have repeatedly promoted antisemitism.
On August 4, the Bollingers encouraged their followers to “read” an “entire thread” by the pro-Hitler account “Truth Troll” pushing a sprawling antisemitic conspiracy theory (the “Khazarian Mafia”) that claims that many modern-day Jewish people are frauds who have hidden behind Jewish identity to oppress the world.
The thread promoted by the Bollingers further claimed that there is a “J E W WORLD ORDER in place” and specifically criticized officials for being Jewish.
On August 18, they promoted another thread by Truth Troll which praised Hitler. They wrote: “This is an EPIC Thread - Bookmark, Read, Watch, and Share!”
The thread included such posts as: “Hitler came into power in March 1933. One of the first things he did was outlaw the ‘banking debt based system.’ The country flourished. He was allegedly the first and only leader to have ever arrested a Rothschild. I’m sure it didn’t do him any favors.”
And on August 7, they promoted another antisemitic thread about “Judaism’s strange Gods.”
The Bollingers’ conspiracy theories about cancer and other topics
The Associated Press ran an extensive expose of the Bollingers in 2021 headlined, “Inside one network cashing in on vaccine disinformation.” The AP also wrote that “medical experts” say their “Truth About Cancer” series includes “unproven information about alternatives to chemotherapy and cancer prevention. The company even sells a series that purports to show ‘the truth’ about pet cancer.”
Other observers have called out the Bollingers for their conspiratorial claims about medicine, including The Center for Public Integrity; Science-Based Medicine; and NPR.
Charlene Bollinger recently appeared on extremist Laura Loomer’s program and said: “Cancer is just an imbalance. Your body is out of balance. Something happened and the tumor is actually a blessing.”
The Bollingers have also promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, including frequently sharing the QAnon slogan “WWG1WGA” on social media. Charlene Bollinger has also promoted the QAnon-linked adrenochrome conspiracy theory.
Additionally, the Bollingers have promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories, including calling 9/11 an “inside job scam." They also helped organize Stop the Steal efforts after the 2020 election.
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Guest of Trump ally Laura Loomer: “Cancer is just an imbalance. Your body is out of balance. Something happened and the tumor is actually a blessing.”
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 09/06/24
The Associated Press reported on Charlene and Ty Bollinger in 2021:
The Bollingers are part of an ecosystem of for-profit companies, nonprofit groups, YouTube channels and other social media accounts that stoke fear and distrust of COVID-19 vaccines, resorting to what medical experts say is often misleading and false information.
An investigation by The Associated Press has found that the couple work closely with others prominent in the anti-vaccine movement — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Children’s Health Defense — to drive sales through affiliate marketing relationships.
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Ty Bollinger began their business several years ago with books and DVDs such as “Cancer: Step Outside the Box” and “The Truth About Cancer,” which medical experts say included unproven information about alternatives to chemotherapy and cancer prevention. The company even sells a series that purports to show “the truth” about pet cancer.
Ty Bollinger describes himself as a “medical researcher” on bios posted on his website and in at least one book. He holds degrees in accounting and taxation from Baylor, but the AP could find no indication that he has any scientific or medical training, and he declined to answer questions about his credentials.
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CitationFrom the September 5, 2024, edition of Loomer Unleashedstreamed on Rumble
LAURA LOOMER (HOST): It's just incredible to see how these natural oils and these natural remedies in our own environment, nature, can help heal you regardless of whether you have money for treatment or whether you're homeless. And so, I started looking into how I could purchase some of these remedies because I can imagine that a lot of this can also be preventative as well. What can you speak to, the information in these nine episodes regarding the natural remedies and the essential oils and the juicing and the eating? And I'm just reading off the screen here, the detoxing and the light therapy and the sound therapy. Do you recommend these things for people as a preventative for cancer as well or just people who are currently dealing with cancer?
CHARLENE BOLLINGER (GUEST): Yeah. Well, you know, the — we all need to actively be working at preventing cancer because if we don't, we're gonna get cancer. That's the bottom line here. We're gonna get some type of degenerative disease if we're not detoxifying our bodies. So the — it goes through every goes through everything that you need to know on why your doctor doesn't know these things.
Why does the doctor not understand that chemotherapy is actually killing people? Radiation is actually killing people. It's causing more aggressive cancers. These shots, right now, we've got aggressive turbo cancers. So the film will go through the history behind the medical cartel that's in place, and then we're gonna get into the different types of cancer. Episode 2, we get into breast cancer. You're talking about breast cancer. We're talking about the hormones and also skin cancer and the essential oils that you can use to treat yourself. Fasting, juice fasting, all of these things can reboot your body. And when you stop taking in the toxins, Laura, you stop feeding cancer.
You stop causing and feeding cancer. Cancer is just an imbalance. Your body is out of balance. Something happened and the tumor is actually a blessing. What the tumor does is it keeps the cancer stem cells, which if they spread everywhere aggressively, could kill you fast. But the tumor keeps them inside. So when a surgeon comes in and cuts the tumor, they're seeding the cancer. So they cut the tumor, the stem cells come out, and now you're in trouble because the cancer is all over your body. So, every surgery that is performed, they're, they're seeding cancer. They go in there, they cut it out, but there's always stem cells that are seeding into the body. It's not the tumor that the problem is, it's what caused that tumor.
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Charlene and Ty Bollinger are COVID-19 and health conspiracy theorists.The Bollingers have repeatedly promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, as the Center for Countering Digital Hate has documented, including tweeting the hashtags “QAnon” and “WWG1WGA” (an acronym for the QAnon slogan “where we go one, we go all”). Kennedy has also been incorporated into the Bollingers’ QAnon branding: When Charlene Bollinger interviewed Kennedy, the Brighteon video page of the Bollingers’ PAC included the tag: “truth wwg1wga.”
Kennedy and the Bollingers are closely connected: The Associated Press wrote in a May 2021 investigation that “the couple work closely with others prominent in the anti-vaccine movement — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Children’s Health Defense — todrive sales through affiliate marketing relationships.”
Kennedy also partnered with them in lawsuits over alleged “censorship” and recently tweeted at them: “Love you two warriors!” The Bollingers have also appeared in CHD videos.
...The Reawaken America Tour
Kennedy has been a “featured” speaker on the Reawaken America tour, which has frequently featured QAnon influencers. He spoke at the tour’s Anaheim, California, stop on July 17, 2021.
That event also featured, among others, QAnon conspiracy theorists Scott McKay, Rachel Hamm, Charlene Bollinger,and Ann Vandersteel. QAnon supporter Michael Flynn is the co-founder of the tour and spoke in Anaheim.
As The Associated Press noted, Kennedy appeared in a group photo — since removed — with Charlene Bollinger, Flynn, and Trump ally Roger Stone at the time of the event. (Kennedy later distanced himself from the tour after its antisemitic connections, including to McKay, were documented.) ...
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...Our previous report, The Disinformation Dozen, found that up to 65% of anti-vaccine content on social media originates from just 12 individuals, was raised with social media company CEOs at a Congressional hearing on 25 March 2021. The findings of the report were also raised with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by Senators Klobuchar and Luján, by Senator Warner and 12 state attorneys general. • Social media platforms have not taken action on the Disinformation Dozen: ten remain on Facebook and Twitter, and nine remain on Instagram. • In the month since publication of the Disinformation Dozen report, 105 posts from the accounts remaining on social media have breached the platforms’ stated policies for disinformation.
They include posts falsely linking Covid vaccines to thousands of deaths, conspiracies claiming COVID was lab-engineered, posts describing masks on youngsters as “child abuse”, and posts suggesting that the vaccine makes women infertile. •
The Disinformation Dozen – including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joseph Mercola, and Ty and Charlene Bollinger – have repeatedly violated Facebook, Instagram and Twitter’s policies. While some have been removed from a single platform, most remain active on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. • We estimate that the anti-vaccine disinformation posted by these 12 individuals and their organisations in the past month has been seen up to 29 million times. • Facebook, Instagram and Twitter must do what they promised and remove the remaining accounts of the Disinformation Doz...
Disinformation Dozen are responsible for up to 65% of antivaccine content At the outset of this research, we identified a dozen individuals who appeared to be extremely influential creators of digital anti-vaccine content. These individuals were selected either because they run anti-vaccine social media accounts with large numbers of followers, because they produce high volumes of anti-vaccine content or because their growth was accelerating rapidly at the outset of our research in February. Full profiles of each are available at the end of this report. 1. Joseph Mercola 2. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- Ty and Charlene Bollinger 4. Sherri Tenpenny 5. Rizza Islam 6. Rashid Buttar 7. Erin Elizabeth 8. Sayer Ji 9. Kelly Brogan 10. Christiane Northrup 11. Ben Tapper 12. Kevin Jenkins The Disinformation Dozen are responsible for up to 65% of anti-vaccine content Our analysis of over 812,000 posts extracted from Facebook and Twitter between 1 February and 16 March 2021 shows that 65 percent of anti-vaccine content is attributable to the Disinformation Dozen
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...Tenpenny has been added to the Center for Countering Digital Hate's infamous**"disinformation dozen**," a group described as "12 people it said were responsible for spreading a majority of anti-vaxxer falsehoods on Facebook."
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KEY FINDINGS
Analysis of a sample of anti-vaxx content that was shared or posted on Facebook and
Twitter showed up to 65% of anti-vaccine content can be traced to the leading online
anti-vaxxers, who we label the Disinformation Dozen.
? Individuals were selected based upon their high social media followings and high
volume production of anti-vaccine content.
? Our sample of anti-vaccine content was shared or posted onFacebook or Twitter a
total of 812,000 times between February 1 and March 16 2021, with 65% of that
sample attributable to the Disinformation Dozen.
? In the last two months, our analysis of anti-vaxx content posted or shared to
Facebook 689,000 times shows that up to 73% of that content originates from
the leading anti-vaxxers included in this report.
? Analysis of 120,000 anti-vaccine tweets and shares during this period finds that
up to 17% feature the Disinformation Dozen.
Deplatforming repeat offenders is the most effective way of stopping the proliferation of
dangerous misinformation.
?The Disinformation Dozen -- including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Joseph Mercola, and
Ty and Charlene Bollinger, among others -- continually violate the terms of service
agreements on Facebook and Twitter. While some anti-vaxxers identified by
CCDH have been removed from a single platform, comprehensive action has yet to
be taken, and most remain active on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
? CCDH’s ongoing tracking of 425 anti-vaxx accounts finds that the total following
across platforms reached 59.2 million in December 2020, an increase of 877,000
since June
https://www.counterhate.com/disinformationdozen
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