#News A private jet based in Austin, Texas, flew to a small airport about 20 minutes from a well-known private inpatient mental health center in Ohio, then returned to Austin the next morning landing hours before James Talarico reappeared in public after almost two weeks of being ‘missing’ that his campaign blamed on the flu.
Public flight tracking confirms the aircraft’s flight between Austin and Butler County Regional Airport (HAO) in Hamilton, Ohio.
Rumors started circulating that Talarico’s absence was due to a mental health breakdown, according to numerous sources, and his campaign flew out to retrieve him when the online chatter became too big to contain. A recorded phone call had been posted of a woman identifying as an employee of the mental health center – confirming that Talarico had been discharged days earlier – listen.
Talarico says he’s never been to that mental hospital, and he was absent for two weeks because he had the flu. And the center put out a statement saying he was not a patient there.
Details:
➡The plane is operated by Jet Linx Aviation and based in the Austin area.
➡Flight data shows it left Austin for Hamilton, Ohio, on October 8 and returned the following morning, landing in Austin around 10:23 a.m. local time.
➡Hamilton’s airport is a short drive from the Lindner Center of HOPE in Mason, Ohio – which is a private, nonprofit facility offering inpatient, residential, and outpatient psychiatric care for adults and adolescents.
➡This is the same center that Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo checked herself into in 2023 and spent seven weeks at for mental health treatment. It cost about $88,000.
Talarico, who’s running against Attorney General Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, had not held an in-person campaign event in Texas since around September 26. On September 30 he joined a Hispanic Business Council event virtually and said he had gone to urgent care in Dallas the night before: Then he went ‘missing.’ Campaign spokesman JT Ennis repeated the flu excuse and said Talarico would return to the trail over the weekend. He didn’t. On October 9, after the plane landed, Talarico appeared at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Ennis posted video and wrote that Talarico was “still alive and meeting with voters at ACL today.” But people aren’t buying the flu excuse saying the schedule doesn’t match the timeline, and the flight from Austin to Ohio is too much of a coincidence.
Timeline:
🔵Monday, September 28, 7 p.m., downtown Manhattan fundraiser:
➡️Tickets ran from $500 to $27,000. Talarico attended.
🔵Tuesday, September 29, Greenwich Village, a second fundraiser, on his campaign’s invitation.
➡️Tickets ran from $1,000 to $13,500. He held the reception.
🔵A Tuesday night reception in Greenwich Village, New York and a Tuesday night urgent-care visit in Dallas is not the same thing.
The campaign hasn’t given an explanation, proof of a flight, a timestamp, or even a clinic name.
While Talarico was in New York collecting out of state money – his events in Texas were being cancelled.
➡️The Edinburg forum on September 30 went virtual.
➡️The Central Texas African American Civic Engagement Symposium was canceled.
➡️An Austin fundraiser set for Tuesday was scrapped.
Paxton’s campaign launched a tip line and circulated missing-person-style posters.
At a San Antonio rally with President Trump, Paxton led the crowd in asking “Where is James Talarico?”
President Trump called him “MISSING IN ACTION” on Truth Social and wrote that “12 days is a long time to rid yourself of the so-called flu bug.” Paxton’s team said Talarico “appears to be having a full-blown mental Tala-freak-out” and demanded proof of life. Los Angeles former Mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said Talarico was in a mental health facility and that the campaign had stopped actively planning events, according to his sources. No hospital records, staff statements, or campaign acknowledgment has confirmed an urgent care visit in Dallas. What do you think happened? Did Talarico really have the flu for 2 weeks? Or did he have a mental health breakdown?
Pratt says whatever Talarico was ‘out with’ is way worse then claiming to have the flu for 13 days… do you agree?
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