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   The Head of a New RFK-Backing Group Promoted 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and   
   the Protocols of the Elders of Zion   
   Leland Lehrman is a key figure in the MAHA world, despite decades of   
   pushing extremist ideas.   
      
   Anna Merlan   
   Senior ReporterBio   
      
   A photo collage that centers a middle-aged, bearded Leland Lehrman in black   
   and white. On the left, behind Lehrman is a color photo of Robert Kennedy   
   Jr. On the right is a color photo of the burning towers of the World Trade   
   Center on Sept. 11. Lehrman's image is set against a red background with   
   rows of type that read "Make America Healthy Again" in a wavy warp.   
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   Before May, most people in Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.   
   Kennedy Jr. s so-called Make America Healthy Again movement likely werent   
   familiar with Leland Lehrman, a self-styled media entrepreneur, anti-   
   vaccine activist, and former teahouse owner who once unsuccessfully ran for   
   the US Senate in New Mexico.   
      
   Lehrman claimed Israel is a leading candidate for architect of the 9/11   
   attacks.   
      
   Last month, however, Lehrman was named executive director of the MAHA   
   Institute, a new advocacy organization that aims to amplify MAHA wins for   
   President Trump, Secretary Kennedy, and the Cabinet, advise elected   
   officials on the movements agenda, and find and attract allies to work in   
   government. The group shares key leaders with MAHA PAC, the new name of   
   American Values 2024, a fundraising vehicle that raised $50 million in   
   support of Kennedys presidential candidacy. While the MAHA Institute only   
   launched in May, its ties to RFK Jr. are close enough that at its founding   
   conference Lehrman was the first to reveal that the secretary would   
   announce the government would stop recommending COVID vaccines for pregnant   
   people and children.   
   But even less well-known is Lehrmans long history of promoting antisemitic   
   and extreme conspiracy theories, as detailed in a new report from the   
   Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, an organization which   
   studies extremism and the far right. The IREHR found that in the mid 2000s,   
   Lehrman spread conspiracies about the September 11 attacks and extensively   
   touted the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an outrageous antisemitic   
   forgery that purports to document a secret meeting where Jews plotted world   
   domination and which has been debunked for over 100 years.   
   Lehrman wrote multiple articles outlining his belief in the Protocols on   
   the website of Jeff Rense, a far-right radio host whos often given airtime   
   to Nazis, racists, and assorted antisemites. In 2005, Lehrman sat down for   
   a long interview with Rense in which he described high-level Jewish   
   Illuminists, or Lucifer worshipers who have most certainly collaborated   
   with the Lucifer worshipers in all the other sects like Nazism, like high-   
   level Freemasonry. They have most certainly collaborated in the development   
   of this New World Order plan.   
   The reason why the Protocols of Zion is important is because it is a   
   terrifically well-elucidated encapsulation of all the methods and   
   techniques that have been used to bring about the New World Order, Lehrman   
   added.   
   According to the IREHRs report, Lehrman is the great-grandson of the   
   founder of the Rite-Aid corporation. His father, the investment banker   
   Lewis E. Lehrman, is from a Jewish family, although he publicly converted   
   to Catholicism four decades ago. His mother is Episcopalian. In his first   
   piece for Renses site in 2005, Lehrman described himself as an American   
   citizen of Jewish heritage concerned about the methods and doctrines that   
   the criminal leadership of the Jewish and Zionist hierarchy have promoted   
   worldwide.   
   Lehrman acknowledged receiving a request for comment from Mother Jones, but   
   he did not answer questions about his past writings and statements before   
   publication. He did not say whether he still holds such views.   
   Mark Gorton (the millionaire creator of LimeWire) and Tony Lyons (the   
   founder of Skyhorse Publishing, which releases conspiratorial and anti-   
   vaccine books, including some written by Kennedy) are the cofounders of   
   MAHA PAC, and are also the co-presidents of the MAHA Institute.   
      
   Lehrman has claimed high-level Jewish... Lucifer worshipers helped develop   
   a New World Order plan.   
      
   When asked about Lehrmans past statements, Lyons replied with a brief   
   statement. Were being asked to comment on an accusation of anti-semitism,   
   he wrote. Five of the six most senior people at The MAHA Institute are   
   Jewish, but that shouldnt get in the way of a good hit piece. Lyons did not   
   respond to followup questions about whether hed read Lehrmans writings on   
   the Protocols, or whether he was counting Lehrman among the institutes   
   senior Jewish staff.   
   HHS did not respond to requests for comment, but on his LinkedIn page,   
   Lehrman details a series of roles that have drawn him nearer to Kennedy and   
   his inner circle. He says he began volunteering for RFKs presidential run   
   in 2023, before being hired to do research and provide ideas for Bobby and   
   the campaign on policy issues, news briefs, and tweets.   
   For the last eight months, according to his LinkedIn, hes worked as a   
   volunteer and then as a consultant for MAHA Action, a separate group led   
   until recently by anti-vaccine activist Del Bigtree, the former   
   communications director of RFKs 2024 campaign. I assisted Stefanie Spear,   
   Chief of Staff to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I engaged with Bobbys policy   
   correspondence... I worked with the team to advance both MAHA policies and   
   our candidates for government positions, Lehrman wrote. The page also says   
   he began a position in March as the executive director of the obscure   
   Freedom for America Fund, whose website claims it will source healthy,   
   high-integrity Americans to work in the Trump administration to promote   
   health and freedom. The organization lists no contact information, and it   
   is unclear if Lehrman still holds that position.   
   In Lehrmans first article on Renses site, he argued that the Protocols were   
   legitimatea notion debunked not long after they first appeared around 1903.   
   In the article, Lehrman claimed he was not denigrating all Jews, explaining   
   that those Jews who play the world domination game are in effect no longer   
   Jewish by religion in that their strategy is in direct contradiction with   
   the Ten Commandments, the real pillar of the Hebrew religion.   
   Lehrman also promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories, writing that during Dennis   
   Kucinichs 2004 Democratic presidential campaignwhich Lehrman said he ran in   
   Santa Fehe met a former Captain in US Army Intelligence who was able to   
      
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