Someone claiming to be Elizabeth Holmes, the previous Theranos CEO, “America’s first self-made female billionaire,” and convicted fraudster is at present tweeting, replying, and sometimes trolling on X. However is it actually her?
The quick reply is probably going no. In spite of everything, Holmes is barely two years years right into a nine-year jail sentence for fraud carried out throughout her time as CEO of the now-defunct blood testing firm.
The longer reply, nonetheless, is possibly. Whereas federal prisons don’t permit inmates entry to social media (Holmes is being held at FCP Bryan in Bryan, Texas), the posts might, in principle, be dictated by Holmes to a beloved one, PR consultant, or another person who has assumed management of her account.
In fact, there’s additionally a 3rd choice: her account might have been hacked. Nonetheless, it’s unclear what the motivation could be provided that no rip-off hyperlinks, memecoins, or adverts have been shared.
Regardless, whoever’s taken over the account has modified the profile to say, “Inventor. Former Theranos Founder and CEO. Mostly my words, posted by others,” and has set their the situation as Bryan, Texas.
They’ve even shared an inventory of ebook suggestions, together with giving a not-so-subtle nod to the present administration by speaking about Tulsi Gabbard’s books.
Elizabeth Holmes’ disturbing lack of self-reflection
What’s clear from Holmes’ obvious return is that, if a number of the posts are certainly her personal phrases, she isn’t stuffed with any regret.
She’s posted an extended Martin Luther King Jr. quote, together with the well-known phrase “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice,” and tweeted out her well-known bastardized phrase “first they think you’re crazy, then they fight you, then you change the world” in a reply to cult chief and complement salesman Bryan Johnson.
On prime of all this, it’s additionally apparent that Holmes nonetheless disputes her wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud convictions.
By no means left. Simply was silenced
— Elizabeth Holmes (@ElizabethHolmes) August 27, 2025
Weird timing
Just a few months in the past, billboards began showing within the Los Angeles space proclaiming Holmes’ innocence.
Based on The Hollywood Reporter, the advert marketing campaign was began by Ryan “Egypt” Elhosseiny who seems to have hijacked the Theranos model and run with the very same pitch because the failed startup, tweeting in June, “100’s [sic] of Tests from a drop of blood.”
Elhosseiny has launched quite a few “movies” suggesting that there’s a deep state coverup involving Holmes and most cancers medication and can also be trying to begin his personal blood testing firm based mostly on Holmes and Theranos’ earlier work.
The pay-to-pardon pipeline
It appears more and more probably that monetary fraudsters can make the most of pay-to-play ways with the US authorities as a “get out of jail free card.”
EV has-been Trevor Milton donated to Trump and has now left jail, Justin Solar purchased mass portions of Trump-related cash and shares earlier than his excellent lawsuits had been placed on maintain, and the BitMEX executives and their firm had been someway pardoned.
It’s by no means been simpler to commit a critical monetary crime, donate to a marketing campaign, and stroll straight out of jail. So, is that this the plan?
Nobody would put it previous Holmes, who now finds herself becoming a member of the ranks of Sam Bankman-Fried, Ryan Salame, and others in a determined plea to Trump for clemency.
It’s unclear if the brand new bid for freedom will repay, however it may possibly’t harm contemplating Donald Trump’s observe document.
