James Talarico -- 'Gone Boy'

Talarico needs to come clean and tell us where he was and what he was doing during his “lost weekends.”

John M. Williams, Sr., M.D. | October 16, 2026

Was it nine days or 12 that James Talarico was MIA with the “flu” -- or was it something else? There was speculation about a hospitalization in a mental health facility in Ohio, then a denial by the facility, which was quickly followed with proxy alibis from the legacy press, replete with talk of satellite imagery and surveillance photos. But what about a doctor’s note -- like the one we all have to bring to our employer when we get sick? Talarico didn’t have one -- instead he claimed he went to urgent care or to his primary care doctor, but he couldn’t seem to get that story straight either.

Most of us remember the early days of COVID-19. It was just six years ago this month that President Donald Trump came down with a nasty case of it. There wasn’t much in the way of treatment at the time, but after an infusion of monoclonal antibodies and some IV fluids, he soldiered on, waving from his limo as he was whisked away from Walter Reed Medical Center. The public was kept informed about his progress with live updates from the man himself, and he never abandoned his responsibilities. This was the complete opposite of the Lloyd Austin fiasco, where the sitting Secretary of Defense “forgot” to call in sick to President Biden for several days, despite being hospitalized in an ICU for a life-threatening infection. All was forgiven when he came back, and the........

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