At 16 he was arrested using marijuana.
As a teenager he got kicked out of two boarding schools.
When he was 29 he got arrested for heroin possession.
Driving through upstate New York he saw a dead bear by the side of the road, stopped, loaded the bear in his van, drove on to New York City, left the carcass in Central Park.
He married three times. After he and his second wife separated she found his diary – he told of sexual escapades with 37 women.
In 2004 he supported John Kerry for president – when Kerry lost to Bush, said the election was stolen.
In 2008 he endorsed Hillary.
In 2016 he called Trump supporters ‘belligerent idiots’ and compared Trump to Hitler.
In 2024 he linked Hank Aaron’s death to the COVID vaccine.
In 2024 he ran for president as a Democrat against Biden, then switched to run as an Independent, then endorsed the Republican, Trump – who he’d called a ‘terrible human being.’
Who is he?
He’s now in charge of health care across America.
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Telling stories, in his memoir Carter Wrenn follows The Trail of the Serpent twisting and turning through politics from Reagan to Trump. Order his book from Amazon.
