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RFK Jr.’s running mate proposes unity ticket with Donald Trump

RFK Jr.’s running mate proposes unity ticket with Donald Trump

CryptopolitanCryptopolitan2024/08/19 16:00
By:By Jai Hamid

Share link:In this post: Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.’s running mate, suggested teaming up with Donald Trump for a unity ticket in the 2024 election. Shanahan dismissed rumors of her working with Kamala Harris and said that Trump could be a great ally to them. RFK Jr. is all in on Bitcoin, claiming to see it as key to protecting financial freedom and securing the dollar’s future as a global reserve currency.

Nicole Shanahan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate in the 2024 presidential race, has just thrown a wild card into the mix. During an interview on August 20 on the Impact Theory podcast, Shanahan said that she and RFK Jr. might join forces with Donald Trump. 

The VP candidate also immediately shot down rumors that she was in talks with Kamala Harris about a cabinet position or any sort of endorsement, calling it all “fake news.” 

Instead, she turned the conversation towards Trump, saying that he actually took the Kennedy-Shanahan campaign’s concerns about chronic disease and Big Pharma seriously. She said: 

“I think it behooves us to sit and see if we can actually make some real change.”

But why would they even consider this? According to Shanahan, the Kennedy campaign has faced some serious roadblocks. 

Even though they’ve qualified for ballot access in all 50 states, she claimed the Democratic National Convention has been working against them, trying to sabotage their efforts.

She warned that this could force the Kennedy campaign to play the role of a “spoiler” in November, something they’d obviously rather avoid. Teaming up with Trump might just be their way of sidestepping that.

While Shanahan is out here stirring up political drama, RFK Jr. is focused on something else entirely: Bitcoin. During an interview at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, RFK Jr. shared that Bitcoin is central to his vision for the country’s financial future.

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This wasn’t always the case, though. 

RFK Jr. had his Bitcoin epiphany during the trucker strike in Canada a couple of years back. He described the strike as “a very peaceful protest” where people were just trying to exercise their basic rights—like the freedom to assemble and petition the government. 

But instead of respecting those rights, the Canadian government cracked down hard. They used facial recognition tech to identify protesters and then froze their bank accounts. For RFK Jr., that was a wake-up call.

He realized that “transactional freedom” is just as important as the freedom of speech. That’s when he started seeing Bitcoin as more than just a digital currency—it’s a tool for protecting people’s financial freedom from government overreach.

Now, RFK Jr. is convinced that Bitcoin is here to stay. He pointed out that there are now 60 million Bitcoiners in the U.S., which means policymakers can’t ignore it anymore. 

In his view, the only way to secure the dollar’s future as the world’s reserve currency is by incorporating Bitcoin into the country’s financial strategy.

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