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James David ‘JD’ Vance (born James Donald Bowman) is an American politician and lawyer and has been the United States Senator from Ohio since 2023. He was announced and nominated as Donald Trump’s running mate on the Republican ticket for the 2024 United States presidential election. With a political presentation as a “social conservative”, he appears in reality to be a front man for Peter Thiel and the Paypal Mafia.

Activities

Vance served as a director at Peter Thiel’s company, Mithril Capital, between 2016 and 2017.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾

In 2019, Vance founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati, with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt and Marc Andreessen.⁽³⁾ Along with Thiel and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton, Vance has invested in the online video platform Rumble.⁽⁴⁾

Vance received a record amount of money from deep state actor Peter Thiel to win his seat as senator from Ohio. Thiel had already donated to J.D. Vance in the Republican primary for Ohio Senate, investing a total of $15 million to bolster Vance — the largest amount ever given to bolster a single candidate for the Senate.⁽⁵⁾

Vance is a strong supporter of US support for Israel during the war between Israel and Hamas.⁽⁶⁾

Background

His 2016 bestselling memoir Elegy of the Hillbilly received a lot of press attention during the 2016 US elections. In 2020 it was made into a film on Netflix starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close.⁽⁷⁾

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