Feminist icon who worked with Clinton and Gore jumps ship, endorses Trump: 'Biden-Harris suppressed my voice'



Feminist icon and best-selling author Naomi Wolf has thrown her support behind President Donald Trump, joining the likes of Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Teamsters boss Sean O'Brien, and the multitudes of other longtime Democrats who have grown disenchanted with a party now unrecognizable under its current management.

"Naomi Wolf here. NYS. Never in a million years did I think I'd vote for Donald Trump but the folks for whom I voted, censored me illegally via Big Tech, killed thousands of people via FDA lies and put the guy who tried to help me save American lives, in prison," Wolf wrote in a Sunday X post, days before President Joe Biden called all Trump supporters "garbage".

"At a certain point you can't support the fascists," added Wolf.

Wolf was long a darling of the left — a Democratic insider celebrated as a key proponent of third-wave feminism who advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, took up the cause of the populist Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in 2011, anddonned a "p***y hat" with other Trump critics in 2017.

In recent years, however, the liberal establishment began attacking Wolf as it became increasingly clear she was unwilling to toe the party line.

Leftists lashed out at Wolf when, for instance, she criticized the experimental mRNA vaccines foisted upon the American population, earning a ban on pre-Musk Twitter; when she underwent firearms training, which she indicated was "empowering"; when she discussed the Bible with Tucker Carlson around the time her former Democrat allies were working to censor him; and when she emphasized that abortion is always a "tragedy."

Following his release from prison Tuesday, Stephen K. Bannon spoke to Wolf on his "War Room" show about her Trump endorsement.

"Did you actually endorse President Trump?" asked Bannon.

'In person, he's very different from the caricature.'

"This is a hard thing for me to do, but yes I did. I'm saying it. It's public. Yes I did," said Wolf. "I posted it and I sent it to you in prison, my tweet or my X post, saying at a certain point, you have to stop supporting the fascists. The people I voted for silenced my voice. They killed thousands of people and they put the man who helped me try to save the lives of thousands of people in prison."

"At a certain point, you just have to stand up for what's right," added Wolf.

When pressed about what specifically prompted her to turn her back on the Democratic Party and to risk "Rachel Maddow's head blowing up," Wolf indicated that a good friend brought her to hear Trump speak to Orthodox Jews at Bedminster about anti-Semitism and about bringing an end to the conflict in the Middle East.

"I'm Jewish," said Wolf. "That was very, very moving to me."

Wolf noted further that "in person, he's very different from the caricature."

"All of my information about him was filtered through legacy media. 'He's a fascist.' 'He's a misogynist.' 'He's a racist.' I saw someone who was eloquent, articulate, thoughtful, very funny," continued the feminist icon. "Not every joke he makes I would have endorsed, but he was talking about — he was serious, he was a serious person talking seriously about peace in the Middle East about saving lives, saving innocent lives, Palestinian and Israeli, and how can that not be good?"

'You guys have become the unity party.'

Wolf emphasized that she was not hearing the same kind of seriousness from the Harris camp.

Trump's foreign policy may have nudged Wolf along, but she made clear that Democrats' attempts to censor her criticism of the COVID-19 vaccines effectively poisoned the well:

Biden-Harris suppressed my voice when I was warning women about serious danger to their fertility from the mRNA injection. In June of 2021, two attorneys general with lawsuits revealed that ... tweet was lifted out by the Biden-Harris regime at the highest levels. And instead of helping women protect their fertility, their babies, their pregnancies, their own health, they lifted it out to silence me, to smear me unlawfully — to put pressure on Big Tech companies like X and Facebook to suppress my First Amendment rights.

Wolf indicated that when fellow Democrats not only abandoned her but viciously attacked her, Bannon alternatively afforded her the platform to speak out — only to find himself in a prison cell thanks to the Biden-Harris Department of Justice.

'The Democrat Party has no home for people like us.'

"President Trump did something very smart. He aligned himself with a number of luminaries, people who are very thoughtful and serious across the political spectrum: RFK Jr., whom I respect so much; Tulsi Gabbard; [and] Elon Musk has joined," said Wolf. "You guys have become the unity party."

When endorsing Trump, Gabbard and Kennedy similarly suggested there has been a great realignment.

"To those of you here and those watching at home who are independent people like myself, who love our country and are committed to the Constitution and to freedom, the Democrat Party has no home for people like us," Gabbard told a crowd in North Carolina last week. "But we do have a home in the Republican Party."

Kennedy told Tucker Carlson in August that his assassinated father and assassinated uncle would not recognize the Democratic Party under Kamala Harris.

"I think there's been a bunch of realignments, of political realignments — about four or five throughout American history," Kennedy told Tucker Carlson in August. "I think we're going through one right now."

Kennedy noted that the Democratic Party is an anti-democratic force that has become synonymous with corporatism, military adventurism, and censorship.

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Former 'Democratic Party icon' apologizes to conservatives; lauds release of January 6 footage



Feminist author Naomi Wolf offered a formal apology to conservatives who "put America first" after reviewing newly-released footage of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

"Peaceful Republicans and conservatives as a whole have been demonized by the story told by Democrats in leadership of what happened that day," Wolf said in a lengthy post on Substack Thursday.

"Republicans, conservatives, I am sorry. I also believed wholesale so much else that has since turned out not to be as I was told it was by NPR, MSNBC and the New York Times," Wolf also said.

"Anyone in leadership who misrepresented to the public the events of the day so as to distort the complexity of its actual history — must also be held accountable," she added.

Wolf compared the release of the new January 6 footage to Daniel Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers, noting that Leftists lionized the latter while condemning the former.

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Who is Naomi Wolf?

Wolf, a "lifelong liberal and civil libertarian" is a prominent feminist, author, commentator, and periodic guest on Fox News Channel shows.

She was a figurehead of 1990s "third wave feminism" and was once a "Democratic Party insider," according to Business Insider.

Wolf's "impeccable" Democratic Party bonafides came into question when "The Beauty Myth" author gave an interview to Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson in 2021 and later appeared on Steve Bannon's "WarRoom" podcast, the outlet also said.

Wolf was a vocal opponent of COVID lockdowns and related policies. The Yale alum lead a protest against her alma mater's vaccine policy in December 2022.

Why is she apologizing now?

Wolf says her apology was spurred by the recent release of previously unseen footage of the January 6 Capitol riot. The footage was released by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who aired portions of the footage on his nightly show earlier this week.

Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) denounced the decision to air the footage.

In her letter, Wolf specifically cites footage of "Q-Anon Shaman" Jacob Chansley and Officer Brian Sicknick which appear to contravene the narratives she previously espoused.

How has Wolf's apology been received?

"This is pretty courageous," Jason Whitlock tweeted Friday in response to Wolf's apology.

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"I am one of those people who was targeted and brutalized in all of this horrific dishonesty. I still am," Walkaway campaign founder Brandon Straka tweeted.

"This helps."

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"Amazing letter from Naomi Wolf. Well done to her. I do not define myself politically but these lies affected us all & it’s been years of frustration (agony at times) watching them play out & seeing so many be deceived," journalist Lara Logan tweeted Friday.


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COVID-19 lockdowns are the 'biggest public health mistake we've ever made,' Stanford medical school prof says



A Stanford University Medical School professor has called COVID-19 lockdowns the "biggest public health mistake we've ever made."

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya — a medical doctor whose recent research "focuses on the epidemiology of COVID-19 as well as an evaluation of policy responses to the epidemic" — made his comment as part of a February interview with the Daily Clout, an outlet author Naomi Wolf founded "to help anyone, from any walk of life, use and affect democracy more powerfully." Bhattacharya's comments haven't been widely reported until this week.

What did the professor say?

Bhattacharya began the interview discussing the Great Barrington Declaration, which he co-authored. The document argues that COVID-19 lockdowns "are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice." It adds that "keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed."

The declaration as of Thursday indicates that over 13,000 medical and public health scientists have signed it, along with over 41,000 medical practitioners.

With that, Bhattacharya told Wolf that the Great Barrington Declaration "comes from two basic facts."

"One is that people who are older have a much higher risk from dying from COVID than people who are younger ... So the first plank of the Great Barrington Declaration: let's protect the vulnerable," he said before adding that "the other idea is that the lockdowns themselves impose great harm on people. Lockdowns are not a natural normal way to live."

Bhattacharya also noted that "the lockdown harms are worse than COVID" and that "the harm to people is catastrophic." His reasoning is that "public health" means a whole lot more than protection from a virus, and that people need many more things in life in order to stay healthy — not only physically but also mentally and emotionally — such as interaction with friends and the ability to earn a living, which lockdowns have prevented.

The doctor's "biggest public health mistake we've ever made" comment comes at the 26:45 mark in the below video, but the entire interview is worth your time:

"Prof Jay Bhattacharya, Signatory of Gt Barrington Declaration: Why 'Lockdown' Will Kill Millions"youtu.be

Anything else?

Newsweek caught wind of Bhattacharya's comments, and the magazine said he stood by them in an email:

I stand behind my comment that the lockdowns are the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 years. We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms, imposed on nearly every poor person on the face of the earth, for a generation.

At the same time, they have not served to control the epidemic in the places where they have been most vigorously imposed. In the US, they have — at best — protected the "non-essential" class from COVID, while exposing the essential working class to the disease. The lockdowns are trickle down epidemiology.

This isn't a new position for Bhattacharya, who declared last May that people are "mistaken" if they believe coronavirus lockdown policies will provide safety from COVID-19.

As for Wolf, she's also been in the news regarding the same subject, telling Fox News' Tucker Carlson late last month that America is turning into a "totalitarian state before everyone's eyes" amid our government's coronavirus lockdowns:

Left-wing author Naomi Wolf sounds alarm to Tucker Carlson: America becoming 'totalitarian state before everyone's eyes'



As Fox News host Tucker Carlson told left-wing author Naomi Wolf on his program Monday night, there isn't a whole lot they likely agree on — but Wolf's alarming observation that America is turning into a "totalitarian state before everyone's eyes" amid our government's coronavirus lockdowns is certainly an exception.

What's the background?

Just days after last November's presidential election, Wolf famously tweeted that had she known that now-President Joe Biden was open to "terrifying" lockdowns that "won't ever end because elites love it," she never would've voted for the Democrat:

If I’d known Biden was open to ‘lockdowns’ as he now states, which is something historically unprecedented in any p… https://t.co/nqjSqGvGWv
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But Wolf told Carlson that she's been writing about governmental overreach for a long time, and in fact penned a 2007 book on the subject — "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" — that can apply to the "terrible crisis that we're in" right now.

What else did she say?

Wolf, an adviser for former President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, said America is quickly "moving into a coup situation, a police state situation" as elected officials continue to assume "unprecedented" emergency powers under the "guise of a real medical pandemic."

"That's not a partisan thing; that transcends everything that you and I might disagree or agree on," she told Carlson. "That should bring together left and right to protect our Constitution."

Wolf observed that the "state has now crushed businesses, kept us from gathering in free assembly to worship as the First Amendment provides, is invading our bodies ... which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, restricting movement." She noted that she can be fined $15,000 a day in New York state for gathering more people in one space than COVID-19 restrictions allow.

Noting that her historical studies have shown her that "would-be tyrants always take" the same 10 steps "when they want to close down a democracy," Wolf told Carlson she believes the United States is "absolutely moving into what I call step 10," which is the "suspension of the rule of law — that's when you start to be a police state, and we're here. There's no way around it."

Wolf added that she's interviewed "many patriots from all backgrounds and all walks of life who are horrified" by this dangerous shift, but the deep divisions in our country make it difficult to stand united against the march toward greater governmental control.

She added that she's seeing "autocratic tyrants at the state and now the national level ... creating a kind of merger of corporate power and government power, which is really characteristic of Italian fascism in the '20s" — and that they're "using that to engage in emergency orders that simply strip us of our rights: rights to property, rights to assembly, rights to worship, and all of the rights that our Constitution guarantees."

'No one gives up emergency powers willingly'

Wolf also offered some sobering predictions, noting that her studies have shown that "no one gives up emergency powers willingly" and that they "always drag it on and drag it on." She also said that "nowhere in the Constitution does it say" that our rights "can be suspended if there's a bad disease. We have lived through typhus, cholera, small pox, HIV, tuberculosis, polio, the Spanish Flu ... we've lived through an attack on our soil. Never have there been months and months and months of emergency powers when we weren't actually fighting a war."

She sounded the alarm concerning the "completely unprecedented" response to COVID-19, saying that "lockdowns have never been done before in free societies, and really, we're turning into a version of a totalitarian state before everyone's eyes."

"I really hope we wake up quickly," Wolf concluded, "because history also shows that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back."

Carlson wondered, too, if the powers that be want to keep Americans "divided so we won't have conversations like this."