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Welcome back to The Stratosphere. I’m Teddy Schleifer.
As you grow older in journalism, if you’re lucky, the people you get to know—friends, sources, enemies—end up making their mark on history. On Thursday, a once-obscure crypto trader I met, named Sam Bankman-Fried, will likely be sentenced to decades in prison. And today, someone I encountered several years ago strode across a stage in the Bay Area to run for Vice President of the United States.
Of course, I’m talking about Nicole Shanahan. In today’s edition, a rundown on everything I’ve heard and reported over the past five years of intel-gathering on the candidate. Suddenly, a lot of things I’ve kept buried in my notebook have become newly relevant, including details about Shanahan’s relationship with Biden, her relationship with Musk and Brin, and, naturally, her relationship with her ticket compatriot Robert F. Kennedy, including the tick-tock of how she went down the R.F.K. rabbit hole.
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| Nicole in Wonderland |
| Just a few years ago, Nicole Shanahan was being courted by everyone in Silicon Valley as the next great hope for the Democratic Party. Then her life went topsy-turvy, and she fell down the rabbit hole for R.F.K., Jr. |
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| Last week, amid the crush of events and obligations that would ordinarily surround a campaign for president, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reached out to an old friend in Malibu, the surrealist painter and art dealer Zoe Rose Schwartz. Kennedy had commissioned some work from her before, and he was back in town. This time, though, he wanted to show her work to a new friend: Nicole Shanahan, his 38-year-old mega-donor once married to... |
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| FOUR STORIES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT |
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| Biden’s Inside Edge |
| An exclusive poll on Trump V.P.s, Dems’ downballot boost, and more. |
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