Robert Kennedy Jr chose a multimillionaire under 40 as his running mate. The lawyer and environmental defender, independent candidate for the presidency of the United States, announced, Tuesday March 26, in Oakland (California) that he had designated the lawyer specializing in technologies Nicole Shanahan to campaign for his sided as a vice-presidential candidate in the November 5 election.
“I want it to represent the growing share of young people who have lost confidence in their future and pride in their country,” declared the nephew of former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, during the presentation of his team in front of several hundred supporters gathered in a cultural center. “She has extensive knowledge of how the government uses technology to manipulate the public. It will be able to stand up to Silicon Valley. »
Nicole Shanahan shares her indignation, he stressed, against the way in which agriculture, defense or health lobbies influence the government to the detriment of the health and economic situation of the population. And she is an athlete, he pointed out. “An accomplished surfer who can inspire Americans to exercise.” »
“Dangerous for the country”
Former wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, whom he met in 2014 during a yoga festival, the 38-year-old lawyer and patron is well known in Silicon Valley. A native of Oakland, with a Chinese immigrant mother and a father treated for schizophrenia, she grew up in a home where meals were paid for by food stamps. A law and Mandarin graduate, she founded ClearAccessIP, a company specializing in intellectual property. In July 2022, the Wall Street Journal claimed that Sergey Brin filed for divorce, after three years of marriage, after discovering that she had had a brief affair with Elon Musk (which both parties denied). In 2020, his life has “changed”, when she learned that her three-year-old daughter had autism.
Democrat, director of the philanthropic foundation Bia-Echo, Nicole Shanahan contributed to Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 and finances multiple causes defending social justice. In February, Silicon Valley learned with surprise that it had created and financed (for 4 million dollars, or 3.7 million euros) the advertisement broadcast by Robert Kennedy during the Super Bowl, the American football final followed by 123 million spectators.
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