A fierce internal dispute has broken out within Robert F Kennedy Jr’s health policy team after wellness entrepreneur Calley Means accused a rival of leaking damaging claims to far-right activist Laura Loomer, triggering investigations and legal threats.
According to The Daily Beast, the conflict centres on a profanity-laced phone call in which Calley Means, CEO of Truemed and an adviser to Kennedy at the department of health and human services, accused The Wellness Company ’s CEO Peter Gillooly of feeding false information to Loomer.
Loomer had posted that Truemed was committing tax fraud by allegedly auto-generating doctor letters without proper review, allowing customers to use pre-tax dollars to purchase health-related products.
“If one more thing happens, I’m going to go to Jay Bhattacharya and Bobby and tell him that you and your cadre… are spreading lies and trying to f*** with him and hurt his administration,” Means said, according to a transcript and recording obtained by Politico. “I am going to sue the s**t out of you and escalate this if it continues.”
Gillooly, in turn, filed a formal complaint on Saturday with several federal agencies, including the office of special counsel and the health department’s civil rights office, alleging Means abused his federal position and threatened retaliation. “This behaviour has no place in the federal government,” Gillooly said.
The row followed Loomer’s inflammatory post on X, where she alleged, “Sources have come to me today to say they believe the letters from Truemed are allegedly auto-generated instantaneously, auto signed, and not actually reviewed by a doctor… If these claims are true… that would be TAX FRAUD!”
Earlier, Loomer had also criticised Means and his sister, Casey Means, questioning their credibility and influence in Kennedy’s health movement.
Casey Means, a wellness influencer and Kennedy’s pick for US Surgeon General, has become a lightning rod for infighting within the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative. Her appointment has drawn backlash from MAGA figures and health freedom influencers who say she lacks scepticism about vaccines and promotes “woo-woo” therapies.
“Casey has inspired millions of Americans and is a threat to the status quo because she left the medical system,” her brother Calley Means said to The New York Times, defending her against critics like Loomer and former Kennedy running mate Nicole Shanahan, who accused the siblings of being part of a “Manchurian” operation.
Despite the uproar, Kennedy and Trump have stood by Casey. “Bobby really thought she was great,” Trump said, calling her “a very outstanding person.” Kennedy blasted the attacks as driven by entrenched industry interests “terrified of change.”
Meanwhile, The Wellness Company has denied any connection to Loomer. “I have never spoken to Laura Loomer in my entire life,” said founder Foster Coulson, as cited by Politico, after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Truemed’s attorney.
Loomer herself denied receiving leaks and was quoted by Politico saying, “I look up stuff on my own.”
The episode has exposed deep divisions within Kennedy’s movement, with figures once united under health freedom now locked in a power struggle. As UC Riverside professor Richard Carpiano was quoted by The Hill as saying, “This is really showing… to what degree is it really like a movement or is it really just this kind of brand that Kennedy is really just trying to push.”
According to The Daily Beast, the conflict centres on a profanity-laced phone call in which Calley Means, CEO of Truemed and an adviser to Kennedy at the department of health and human services, accused The Wellness Company ’s CEO Peter Gillooly of feeding false information to Loomer.
Loomer had posted that Truemed was committing tax fraud by allegedly auto-generating doctor letters without proper review, allowing customers to use pre-tax dollars to purchase health-related products.
“If one more thing happens, I’m going to go to Jay Bhattacharya and Bobby and tell him that you and your cadre… are spreading lies and trying to f*** with him and hurt his administration,” Means said, according to a transcript and recording obtained by Politico. “I am going to sue the s**t out of you and escalate this if it continues.”
Gillooly, in turn, filed a formal complaint on Saturday with several federal agencies, including the office of special counsel and the health department’s civil rights office, alleging Means abused his federal position and threatened retaliation. “This behaviour has no place in the federal government,” Gillooly said.
The row followed Loomer’s inflammatory post on X, where she alleged, “Sources have come to me today to say they believe the letters from Truemed are allegedly auto-generated instantaneously, auto signed, and not actually reviewed by a doctor… If these claims are true… that would be TAX FRAUD!”
Earlier, Loomer had also criticised Means and his sister, Casey Means, questioning their credibility and influence in Kennedy’s health movement.
Casey Means, a wellness influencer and Kennedy’s pick for US Surgeon General, has become a lightning rod for infighting within the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative. Her appointment has drawn backlash from MAGA figures and health freedom influencers who say she lacks scepticism about vaccines and promotes “woo-woo” therapies.
“Casey has inspired millions of Americans and is a threat to the status quo because she left the medical system,” her brother Calley Means said to The New York Times, defending her against critics like Loomer and former Kennedy running mate Nicole Shanahan, who accused the siblings of being part of a “Manchurian” operation.
Despite the uproar, Kennedy and Trump have stood by Casey. “Bobby really thought she was great,” Trump said, calling her “a very outstanding person.” Kennedy blasted the attacks as driven by entrenched industry interests “terrified of change.”
Meanwhile, The Wellness Company has denied any connection to Loomer. “I have never spoken to Laura Loomer in my entire life,” said founder Foster Coulson, as cited by Politico, after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Truemed’s attorney.
Loomer herself denied receiving leaks and was quoted by Politico saying, “I look up stuff on my own.”
The episode has exposed deep divisions within Kennedy’s movement, with figures once united under health freedom now locked in a power struggle. As UC Riverside professor Richard Carpiano was quoted by The Hill as saying, “This is really showing… to what degree is it really like a movement or is it really just this kind of brand that Kennedy is really just trying to push.”
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