Nicole Shanahan just hosted the most censored woman in America.
This Wall Street executive abandoned her career after a Pharma CEO told her that he knew their new drug would kill people—but “we can still make $7 billion” from it.
Now, she is Pharma’s worst nightmare.
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This Wall Street executive abandoned her career after a Pharma CEO told her that he knew their new drug would kill people—but “we can still make $7 billion” from it.
Now, she is Pharma’s worst nightmare.
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Ex-Wall Street executive Leslie Manookian just EXPOSED the corruption at the heart of our healthcare system.
And she didn’t stop there.
She has now dedicated her life to destroying medical mandates:🧵
Ex-Wall Street executive Leslie Manookian just EXPOSED the corruption at the heart of our healthcare system.
And she didn’t stop there.
She has now dedicated her life to destroying medical mandates:🧵
Leslie Manookian spent years working for Goldman Sachs and Alliance Capital.
But she abandoned the finance world after hearing something that felt like “someone had kicked me in the stomach.”
Manookian: “The big breakthrough moment for me was when the CEO, the CFO, the head of investor relations, and the head of R&D of one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world came into our office to reassure us about their stock.”
Their stock was plummeting.
Why?
“Rumors were trickling out from their phase three trials—which is the last phase of clinical trials that a drug goes through before it can apply for licensure from the FDA—that this drug was killing people.”
“The CEO comes in and he says, ‘a few people have died. It’s very, very rare … the bad news is the FDA is going to make us put a black box warning on our packaging. The good news is, we still think we can do $7 billion in peak sales.’”
“I felt like someone had kicked me in the stomach … ”
“He knows they’re gonna kill people—but he thinks that I should be happy because the stock’s gonna go back up, and we’re gonna make money.”
But she abandoned the finance world after hearing something that felt like “someone had kicked me in the stomach.”
Manookian: “The big breakthrough moment for me was when the CEO, the CFO, the head of investor relations, and the head of R&D of one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world came into our office to reassure us about their stock.”
Their stock was plummeting.
Why?
“Rumors were trickling out from their phase three trials—which is the last phase of clinical trials that a drug goes through before it can apply for licensure from the FDA—that this drug was killing people.”
“The CEO comes in and he says, ‘a few people have died. It’s very, very rare … the bad news is the FDA is going to make us put a black box warning on our packaging. The good news is, we still think we can do $7 billion in peak sales.’”
“I felt like someone had kicked me in the stomach … ”
“He knows they’re gonna kill people—but he thinks that I should be happy because the stock’s gonna go back up, and we’re gonna make money.”
Leslie started the Health Freedom Defense Fund in 2020.
Why?
She already knew what millions of Americans would learn over the next 5 years:
Covid-19 was a planned “operation in order to mandate vaccines and lockdowns.”
She saw that authorities had spent 20 years setting to stage to “facilitate an authoritarian response to a so-called public health emergency.”
“I wanted to be able to fight back.”
Why?
She already knew what millions of Americans would learn over the next 5 years:
Covid-19 was a planned “operation in order to mandate vaccines and lockdowns.”
She saw that authorities had spent 20 years setting to stage to “facilitate an authoritarian response to a so-called public health emergency.”
“I wanted to be able to fight back.”
🚨“This is how you make statistics lie … ”
Leslie EXPOSED that Pharma was lying about the mRNA shots long before the rest of MAHA caught up.
“They were only assessing suppression of symptoms.”
“They were using what’s called relative risk instead of absolute risk in order to deem these products safe.”
“When you look at absolute risk, you want to know … do you have a 3% chance of getting something after taking the shot, and you had a 30% chance before taking it?”
“Relative is before you took the shot, you had a 2% risk, and now you have a 1% risk.”
“And they say that’s a 50% improvement.”
Leslie EXPOSED that Pharma was lying about the mRNA shots long before the rest of MAHA caught up.
“They were only assessing suppression of symptoms.”
“They were using what’s called relative risk instead of absolute risk in order to deem these products safe.”
“When you look at absolute risk, you want to know … do you have a 3% chance of getting something after taking the shot, and you had a 30% chance before taking it?”
“Relative is before you took the shot, you had a 2% risk, and now you have a 1% risk.”
“And they say that’s a 50% improvement.”
Since 2020, HFDF has won MAJOR victories on behalf of the health freedom movement.
They got the federal travel mask mandate struck down in 2022.
Leslie Manookian: “You don’t wear a mask on an airplane because of Health Freedom Defense Fund.”
They got the federal mandate for green card applicants to take the Covid shots struck down in 2023.
Now, they have a case winding through the courts against the Los Angeles Unified School District’s 2021 Covid-19 shot for employees.
The most recent appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court ruled against them—but Leslie promised “it’s not over yet.”
They got the federal travel mask mandate struck down in 2022.
Leslie Manookian: “You don’t wear a mask on an airplane because of Health Freedom Defense Fund.”
They got the federal mandate for green card applicants to take the Covid shots struck down in 2023.
Now, they have a case winding through the courts against the Los Angeles Unified School District’s 2021 Covid-19 shot for employees.
The most recent appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court ruled against them—but Leslie promised “it’s not over yet.”
I posted a thread breaking down why the Ninth Circuit’s ruling should terrify you last week.
Bookmark the thread below to read next—this ruling will shock you.
Now, back to the podcast … 🧵
Bookmark the thread below to read next—this ruling will shock you.
Now, back to the podcast … 🧵
https://twitter.com/holden_culotta/status/1953170625335574959
Nicole Shanahan: “Can they even be called a vaccine if they don’t stop the spread?”
Leslie Manookian: The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that “it doesn’t matter whether or not the shot stops transmission or infection.”
“All that matters is that the school district could have assumed that it did.”
Even the CDC and CMS admitted that Covid shots do not stop transmission or infection back in 2021.
So Leslie and HFDF argued that “they are not a public health issue—they are a therapeutic.”
Shanahan: “That’s a terrifying precedent … ”
Leslie and HFDF can appeal to the Supreme Court—and they’re considering it.
Shanahan: “It seems worthwhile, because that’s a precedent that other lawsuits are going to follow, that it doesn’t matter that the vaccine doesn’t stop spread.”
Leslie Manookian: The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that “it doesn’t matter whether or not the shot stops transmission or infection.”
“All that matters is that the school district could have assumed that it did.”
Even the CDC and CMS admitted that Covid shots do not stop transmission or infection back in 2021.
So Leslie and HFDF argued that “they are not a public health issue—they are a therapeutic.”
Shanahan: “That’s a terrifying precedent … ”
Leslie and HFDF can appeal to the Supreme Court—and they’re considering it.
Shanahan: “It seems worthwhile, because that’s a precedent that other lawsuits are going to follow, that it doesn’t matter that the vaccine doesn’t stop spread.”
Then, Leslie EXPOSED that the Ninth Circuit even “broke their own rules” in their ruling against her.
“At the pleading stage … when a plaintiff files a complaint, the court is required to accept all of their plausible claims as true, and to give them the opportunity to prove their case in court.”
“What’s happened is the Ninth Circuit has completely violated that precept of the court.”
“There is nothing that we have said that is implausible.”
“In fact, we have all the evidence that we need.”
“They just don’t want the truth to come out, and so they are breaking their own rules.”
“We can appeal to the Supreme Court.”
“I think we’d get three justices for sure. I’m not sure we would get five.”
“I think that the same political pressure that exists on those Ninth Circuit judges may very well exist at the Supreme Court.”
“At the pleading stage … when a plaintiff files a complaint, the court is required to accept all of their plausible claims as true, and to give them the opportunity to prove their case in court.”
“What’s happened is the Ninth Circuit has completely violated that precept of the court.”
“There is nothing that we have said that is implausible.”
“In fact, we have all the evidence that we need.”
“They just don’t want the truth to come out, and so they are breaking their own rules.”
“We can appeal to the Supreme Court.”
“I think we’d get three justices for sure. I’m not sure we would get five.”
“I think that the same political pressure that exists on those Ninth Circuit judges may very well exist at the Supreme Court.”
In April 2025, Leslie Manookian achieved the biggest win for health freedom in modern American history. 🔥
“It’s the first legislation of its kind … in this nation.”
Idaho’s Medical Freedom Act BANS almost all medical mandates.
No business or school can require ANY medical mandate for employment or attendance.
Manookian: “People said there’s no way you’re gonna get a state legislature to ban all mandates of medical interventions.”
“We did that with a very few exceptions.”
“If you can be forced to take a medical intervention …. why can’t they force you to get pregnant for the greater good if there’s too little population growth?”
“Why can’t they force us to take benzos?”
“Why can’t they force us to take ADD medication so … we can be more productive at work?”
“Why can’t they make us take antidepressants so that we feel happy?”
“It’s the first legislation of its kind … in this nation.”
Idaho’s Medical Freedom Act BANS almost all medical mandates.
No business or school can require ANY medical mandate for employment or attendance.
Manookian: “People said there’s no way you’re gonna get a state legislature to ban all mandates of medical interventions.”
“We did that with a very few exceptions.”
“If you can be forced to take a medical intervention …. why can’t they force you to get pregnant for the greater good if there’s too little population growth?”
“Why can’t they force us to take benzos?”
“Why can’t they force us to take ADD medication so … we can be more productive at work?”
“Why can’t they make us take antidepressants so that we feel happy?”
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