More on RFK's NY campaign director, Rita Palma: Long-time Trump supporter and anti-vaccine activist from Long Island. She attended Trump's speech on J6, according to her own accounts, but has deleted any photos of that day from her social media 🧵
Palma, an officer in the New York chapter of RFK's Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit that opposes all vaccines for children, has been attending Trump rallies since 2016.
Palma has talked about attending Trump's speech on January 6, 2021. Although there's no evidence she stormed the Capitol building, at least one of the women she posed with at the December 12, 2020 "Stop the Steal" DC rally can be seen near the Capitol steps on J6.
Palma was also a big Lee Zeldin booster and donor. Zeldin opposed Covid-19 vaccine mandates (although he said he was fully vaccinated.)
Palma is cohosting a fundraiser for RFK later this month on Long Island.
Palma appears to have believed, or still believes, the 2020 election was not legitimate.
And just for fun, here is a 2020 event Palma promoted with everyone's (least) favorite expelled NY congressman.
Anti-vaccination protester from LI was charged Monday with disrupting a legislative meeting on tightening vaccination requirements for [children.] Rita Palma, 56, of Blue Point, N.Y., was charged about 12:40 p.m. with disorderly conduct and interfering with the General Assembly.
Palma called Covid "God's gift to the vaccine movement."
**Clarifying that there no photos of January 6 on Palma's social media, but many from other "Stop the Steal" rallies she attended, so unclear if she deleted or didn't post. But many "are you ok?" comments on her posts that day, so her followers knew she was there somehow.
Update^: Have heard from four sources now that they recall photos and videos of Palma at and leaving J6 (speech area) that are now gone from Facebook, but no one has located any screenshots.
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