Under the guise of “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA), a promoter of notorious antisemitic conspiracy theories has been making the rounds of the MAGA establishment in DC, developing organizational ties with the creators of Project 2025.
Leland Lehrman, the executive director of the MAHA institute, who was recently profiled by IREHR in the report “Make America Hate Again,” has promoted the idea that the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion is real, that germ theory is fake, and that 9/11 was an “inside job.” Now, Lehrman’s group is holding a joint event with the Heritage Foundation, the architects of Project 2025.
MAHA Institute and the Heritage Foundation
Growing ties between Lehrman’s MAHA Institute and the Heritage Foundation were revealed in a June 23 joint event announcement.
Continuing the embrace of natalism that was on display at the inaugural MAHA Institute conference, Lehrman’s group will team up with the Heritage Foundation for a “Women’s Health & Fertility Round Table.”
According to promotional materials, “Topics include body literacy, femtech, informed consent, root cause diagnostics, restorative reproductive care, and maternal health—from pregnancy through birth—with the goal of informing both public understanding and policy development.” The event is scheduled from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 27, at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. This is the first joint event by the recently rebranded organization.
Lehrman and “Shattered Trust”
One week before the MAHA Institute/Heritage joint round table announcement, reports suggest that Lehrman attended the Heritage Foundation’s exclusive invitation-only June 17, 2025, event, “Shattered Trust: Parents, COVID, and the Vaccine Reckoning.”
Writing about the event, The Daily Signal (a publication spun-out of the Heritage Foundation) noted his presence, “Leland Lehrman, executive director of the Make American Healthy Again Institute, said the Heritage event ‘was a stunningly courageous look at the most egregious aspects of not just the last five years, but the entire American medical system.’”
The event featured anti-vaccine activists, including Mary Holland of Children’s Health Defense, several Heritage Fellows, and a keynote address by Senator Rand Paul. “Most of what we were told to do during COVID was a lie, from the very beginning. It was probably the grandest cover-up ever in our history that has really been uncovered,” Senator Paul told the crowd.
