Russell Brand Trumpworld support after conviction, Digi Mart USA News (London, United Kingdom): Russell Brand, who was jailed this week after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others, has been increasingly ostracised in the UK. In the United States, however, where he has developed ties with members of the Trump administration, he was still appearing at Make America Healthy Again (Maha) events as recently as last month.
On 21 October, weeks before his conviction, Brand was a guest speaker by video at an event organised by Maha Action, a group founded by American publisher and activist Tony Lyons. Brand has become a regular advocate for the group, which Lyons started to “reverse America’s chronic disease epidemic.” Lyons, who travelled to the UK to attend the opening of Brand’s trial, reportedly told him: “You’ve just been a great force in the world and a great force for Maha,” adding: “We will stand up for you every week, week after week.” Lyons has not publicly commented since the 51-year-old’s conviction.
In September, Brand appeared in person at a Maha summit at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington, DC. The event was attended by U.S.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vice President JD Vance and other administration officials and business leaders.
Brand had endorsed Kennedy during his 2024 presidential campaign, taking part in video calls to discuss campaign strategy, and was still appearing on supporters’ calls in July 2025.
Despite the charges and his looming trial, Brand’s Trumpworld allies appeared unfazed. Dr.
Mehmet Oz, another Maha figure and administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told the crowd at the September event that Brand had been backstage hugging U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
When the comedian appeared, Oz said, in what was reported to be a joke, “She initiated that contact, I should make clear.” Even as many of his British associates cut ties as the allegations grew, Brand’s allies in Trumpworld remained steadfast.
“One day they’ll be coming for you,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote on social media when the allegations first surfaced, seemingly likening the claims against the British comedian to those levelled at Julian Assange, Andrew Tate and his own father.
The report recalls that at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, days after Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, Brand mingled with Trump family members and interviewed Marjorie Taylor Greene, who later fell out with the President over the administration’s handling of the Epstein files and its support of Israel. Speaking of Brand, Greene told the reporter at the time: “I think he’s great.” Brand declined to explain what he was doing at the event.
Brand’s relationships with members of Trump’s inner circle, including the President’s sons, broadcaster Tucker Carlson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reflected his attempt to rebuild his image abroad.
In the summer of 2023, Brand interviewed Kennedy, a fellow vaccine sceptic, on his Stay Free podcast, where Kennedy said the U.S. was backing Kyiv for humanitarian reasons but that it was in truth a proxy war.
After Kennedy was sworn into Trump’s cabinet, he posted an image of himself holding a lizard alongside Brand and a shirtless Oz.
Trump had shown less sympathy in the past. In 2014 he questioned singer Katy Perry, who married Brand in 2010 and split from him after less than two years, saying in a social media post, “I watched Russell Brand and I think his mind is fried,” and that “Katy Perry must have been drunk when she married” him.
That same year, Brand told Republican National Committee spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko: “If you care about democracy, if you care about freedom, I don’t know how you could do anything other than vote for Donald Trump.”
On Tuesday, British police announced they were investigating new claims against Brand, who has denied all the allegations against him, after receiving more information about “a potential criminal allegation.” Sentencing him at Southwark Crown Court in London, Mr. Justice Bennathan called Brand a “sexual predator” and praised the courage of his victims.
He said Brand believed “fame meant you could act how you liked, when you liked, unhindered by the rules by which decent people live.”
The report concludes that this attitude has come to dominate discourse around Trump and his presidency, and may explain why so many in Trumpworld have given Brand the benefit of the doubt for so long.
