In a viral confession, Katy Talento — President Trump’s former health advisor — revealed her role in keeping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. away from the White House, saying it was her job to “make this problem go away.”

“I was a Harvard-trained infectious disease epidemiologist. I believed, religiously, that vaccines were the gold standard of public health interventions,” writes Talento. “Not because I had been shown the evidence for their effectiveness and safety in public health school… but because I had been trained in the orthodoxy of public health, where it was assumed that someone had studied this and it had been demonstrated at some point – so now we could all focus on more pressing matters, like how to get vaccines in more kids’ arms around the world.”

But slowly, she began to feel suspicious – and her research led her to switch sides.

“[S]omething happened in late summer of 2021 – a set of legal contortions between Big Pharma and the FDA that started to make everything painfully clear,” she says in a May 2026 public apology to RFK for her part in keeping him away from the White House.

In This Episode: Katy Talento joins Dr. Drew to expose the inner workings of the White House Domestic Policy Council, the DC establishment’s efforts to sabotage RFK, and why she no longer trusts the medical consensus. A&E’s Flash Shelton explains his unconventional strategies for helping homeowners take back their properties from squatters nationwide.

Flash Shelton is the host of A&E’s docu-series “Squatters,” which premieres with back-to-back episodes starting Tuesday, May 12th at 10pm and 10:30pm ET/PT. Shelton’s journey began in 2019 when squatters took over his mother’s vacant home in Northern California. After navigating the eviction process himself, he has gone on to help property owners nationwide in more than 100 cases. Learn more at https://www.aetv.com/

Katy Talento is a licensed health benefits consultant, epidemiologist, and health care reformer. As the top health advisor at the White House Domestic Policy Council, she spearheaded policies on health care pricing, prescription drugs, and the opioid crisis. She earned her graduate degree in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. She is CEO of AllBetter Health. Follow at https://x.com/katytalento

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