JD Vance, Trump’s Pick for Vice President

July 19, 2024 Really Graceful

from: G Edward Griffin:

JD Vance, born James Donald Bowman, is a 39-year old politician, lawyer, author, and US Marine veteran who has been serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2023. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2013. His 2016 bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, is about poor and working-class White Americans, and it got significant press attention during the 2016 election and became a feature film in 2020. JD Vance worked for Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital. Thiel is affiliated with the CIA. Thiel contributed $15 million to Vance’s 2022 bid to become Senator of Ohio. Vance is a “never Trump guy” who claimed to have changed his mind. Vance was pro-COVID vaccine, but against mandates. He supports abortion as a state issue, banning gender care for minors, and supports building a wall on the southern border. JD Vance is pro-Israel instead of America first (Congressman Thomas Massie recently exposed Israel’s power over the US Congress and said that every member of Congress consults with a handler before important votes).



I am getting a little worried about G Edward Griffin's articles, some are blatantly anti Semitic and some are so far off the wall I don't believe them. He doesn't make this up but gets it from other articles and just because it is in print doesn't make it true. gb

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Wikipedia

James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician, lawyer, author, and Marine veteran who has served since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he is its nominee for vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election.

After graduating from Middletown High School, Vance joined the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served from 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent, with six months in Iraq. He then attended Ohio State University, graduating in 2009. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2013. His 2016 bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy got considerable press attention during the 2016 election and was adapted into a feature film by Ron Howard in 2020.

In 2021, Vance entered electoral politics as the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, which he won, defeating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan. Initially opposed to Donald Trump's candidacy in the 2016 election, Vance has since become a strong Trump supporter. In July 2024, Trump nominated Vance as his running mate at the Republican National Convention. He is the first Marine veteran to be nominated for vice president.

On social issues, Vance has promoted strongly conservative policies, opposing abortion, same-sex marriage, and gun control, and has proposed banning transgender healthcare for minors. He differs from mainstream Republican views on market interventions, taxes, the minimum wage, unionization, tariffs, and antitrust policy, while opposing American military aid to Ukraine.

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Vance’s biological parents, Donald Bowman and Bev Vance, divorced when he was a toddler. He was later adopted by his mother’s new husband, Bob Hamel, and changed his name to James David Hamel. The name change preserved his nickname, JD


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Peter Thiel Is the Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick, and It’s Worse Than You Think

July 26, 2024 Unlimited Hangout

Author Whitney Webb provides a detailed explanation of controversies surrounding JD Vance, a “never-Trumper” who is now Trump’s running mate for the office of Vice President. Vance’s close connection to billionaire Peter Thiel, who is poised to have unprecedented influence in a new Trump administration, should deeply unsettle every American who cares about freedom, privacy and reining in the surveillance state. Thiel has extensive ties to the CIA.

Vance launched his own venture capital firm Narya Capital in 2020, which was heavily funded by Thiel as well as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, a major Democrat donor. Theil gave $15 million to Vance’s successful Senate bid in the 2022 election cycle in what was then the largest donation ever given to one Senate candidate. David Sacks, Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson were said to have run a secret lobbying campaign to get Vance on the Trump ticket. Thiel had been a major donor to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and served on Trump’s transition team; Trump failed to “drain the swamp.” Thiel funded the company Anduril that is now building a “virtual border wall” for the federal government and Trump, who has abandoned building a physical barrier on the US-Mexico border. Thiel-funded defense companies are remaking the face of warfare and slowly but surely replacing human decision-making with AI. Thiel created Palantir, a private company that is the engine on which the surveillance state runs.


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Things to Know About JD Vance, Trump’s VP Pick

07/15/2024 03:31 PM EDT, Ian Ward is a reporter at POLITICO

link Politico.

This is from Politico, a biased left organization

A follow up article on Politico called: 55 things you don't know… was pretty pathetic trying to come up with something to complain about.

After graduating from Middletown High School in 2003, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and served in Iraq as a corporal with the Public Affairs section of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. “I served my country honorably, and I saw when I went to Iraq that I had been lied to — that the promises of the foreign policy establishment were a complete joke,” he has said.

While at Yale, he attended a talk by Thiel about technological stagnation and the decline of American elites: “He saw these two trends … as connected,” Vance later recalled of his first encounter with Thiel. “If technological innovation were actually driving real prosperity, our elites wouldn’t feel increasingly competitive with one another over a dwindling number of prestigious outcomes.” Vance has called Thiel’s talk “the most significant moment” of his time at Yale.

>He has suggested that the Biden administration is allowing fentanyl to cross the Southern border as part of a deliberate strategy to kill Republican voters: “If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl. . . . It does look intentional. It’s like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didn’t vote for him.”

He has said that if he had been in Mike Pence’s shoes in 2021, he would not have certified the results of the 2020 election: “If I had been vice president, I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there,” he said in February.


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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary

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Jul 17, 2024

David Weigel, (born September 26, 1981) is an American journalist. He works for Semafor. Weigel previously covered politics for The Washington Post, Slate, and Bloomberg Politics and is a contributing editor for Reason magazine.

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Well, Vance literally wrote himself into history. He was a working-class kid from Ohio. Nobody disputes that, had a rough upbringing. He went to military, then to Ohio State, graduated in two years, went to Yale Law School, and while there was mentored into writing "Hillbilly Elegy," which has sold, I think, at this point, selling more now, two million copies.

So a lot of Americans got to know him in 2016 as a Rust Belt working-class conservative who thought Donald Trump had the wrong prescriptions to save people like the ones he grew up with, that they were being misled by Donald Trump.

And he did evolve. And during the Trump presidency, the way he tells it is that the scales fell from his eyes. He started to see that what he was told about Trump were lies. At various points, he's talked about breaks he had with the liberal consensus. So, the Kavanaugh nomination, he thought he was being railroaded. He thought attacks on Trump were unfair.

He ran for Senate in 2022 as an America first candidate, completely in line with Trump's policies, successfully getting his endorsement and telling that conversion story, telling Republican voters who saw lots of ads of him bashing Trump on TV from 2016 that they could be like him. He was wrong. And he, on the road to Damascus, saw the light and supported Trump.

He will be one of several speakers who say they were told lies about Donald Trump, then they saw him act in office, then they were converted to him. And even outside this convention, a refrain you hear from a lot of people and you have heard from Vance is that the media focuses on his tweets, focuses on the way he speaks, doesn't focus on the results.

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12-18-24 Some Vance legislative records:

Rail safety and the East Palestine derailment
Railway Safety Act (S.576): Vance and fellow Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) are the lead sponsors of legislation filed in March 2023, which was approved by the Commerce Committee, establishing heightened safety requirements for rail carriers and trains transporting hazardous materials.
East Palestine Health Impact Monitoring Act (S.4045): Vance, Brown, and Pennsylvania Senators Bob Casey (D) and John Fetterman (D) filed legislation in March 2024, which was approved by the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, requiring a study on the public health impacts of the train derailment in East Palestine.
Technology
PRESERVE Online Speech Act (S.2314): Vance and Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) filed legislation requiring covered platforms to publicly disclose content moderation requests or recommendations by governmental entities.
COOL Online Act (S.1421): Vance and Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rick Scott (R-FL), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) filed legislation in May 2023, which has been approved by the Commerce Committee, requiring sellers of imported products online to disclose the country of origin of the products and the country where the seller is located.
Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act (S.3565): Vance and Senators Peter Welch (D-VT) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) filed legislation in January 2024 appropriating $7 billion in funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program.
Trade
Strengthening Tariffs on Chinese Autos Act (S.3868): Vance has cosponsored legislation filed by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) imposing a tariff of $20,000 per motor vehicle produced in or by China.
De Minimis Reciprocity Act (S.1969): Vance and Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-FL) filed legislation in June 2024 requiring the Treasury Department to prescribe regulations establishing dollar-amount thresholds for de minimis entries and to establish conditions for excluding countries from de minimis treatment. China and Russia would be required by statute to be excluded.
Leveling the Playing Field 2.0 Act (S.1856): Vance is an original cosponsor of legislation led by Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Todd Young (R-IN) establishing a process for successive antidumping and countervailing duty investigations and authorizing Commerce to investigate currency undervaluation as a countervailable subsidy.
No EV Credits for Idle Allies Act (S.1242): Vance and Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) filed legislation in April 2023 excluding critical minerals extracted or processed in Germany or France from qualifying for the clean vehicle tax credit because of their purportedly insufficient levels of assistance to Ukraine.
Fighting Trade Cheats Act (S.805): Vance has cosponsored legislation led by Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) that increases penalties for and enhances enforcement mechanisms against fraudulent and grossly negligent violations of US customs laws.
SAFE Act (S.854): Vance and Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Mike Lee (R-UT) filed legislation in March 2023 requiring issuers of securities to disclose financial support from China and links to the Chinese government or the Chinese Communist Party as a condition of listing on a national exchange.
China Trade Relations Act (S.125): Vance and Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Ted Budd (R-NC) filed legislation in January 2023 withdrawing permanent normal trade relations with China.
Climate and the Inflation Reduction Act
Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act (S.4405): Vance is an original sponsor of legislation filed in May 2024 repealing the Inflation Reduction Act’s methane emissions and waste reduction program for petroleum and natural gas tax.
Putting American Autoworkers First Act (S.3397): Vance and Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Eric Schmitt (R-MO) filed legislation in December 2023 excluding offshoring manufacturers from the clean vehicle credit.
Drive American Act (S.2962): Vance filed legislation in September 2023 repealing tax incentives for electric vehicles, commercial clean vehicles, and alternative fuel refueling property credit, and establishing an “America First Vehicle Credit” for automobiles made in the US.
Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions: Vance filed an amendment to the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act in March 2024 that would prohibit the Securities and Exchange Commission from using funds to finalize any rulemaking requiring the disclosure of Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.
Education
Encampments or Endowments Act (S.4295): Vance filed legislation in May 2024 establishing that institutions of education are ineligible for funds under the Higher Education Act due to campus disorder, including encampments.
American Workforce Act (S.4287): Vance and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) filed legislation in May 2024 establishing a program of workforce development as an alternative to college.
College Admissions Accountability Act (S.3396): Vance and Senators Ted Budd (R-NC), Mike Braun (R-IN), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) filed legislation in December 2023 establishing the Office of the Special Inspector General for Unlawful Discrimination in Higher Education within the Department of Education.
Immigration
College Employment Accountability Act (S.3978): Vance and Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Ted Budd (R-NC) filed legislation in March 2024 prohibiting institutions of higher education employing unauthorized aliens from receiving federal aid and conditioning eligibility on participation in the E-Verify Program.
No Community Block Grants for Sanctuary Cities (S.3915): Vance and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-FL) filed legislation in March 2024 prohibiting sanctuary jurisdictions from receiving community development block grants. State Border Security Act (S.3668): Vance filed legislation in January 2024 authorizing states to erect temporary protective fencing within 25 miles of the southwest border to deter illegal immigration.
Timely Departure Act (S.2656): Vance filed legislation in July 2023 requiring undocumented immigrants seeking admission to the US to pay a bond or cash payment.
English Language Unity Act (S.1109): Vance and Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) filed legislation in March 2023 establishing English as the official language of the US.
Banking
Bank Failure Prevention Act (S.2497): Vance filed legislation in July 2023 converting state-chartered banks that have at least $100 billion in assets to nationally chartered financial institutions overseen by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, as opposed to the Federal Reserve or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Financial Regulatory Accountability Act (S.2335): Vance and Senators Cynthia Lummis (RWY) and Roger Marshall (RKS) filed legislation in July 2023 establishing the Office of the Special Inspector General for Financial Regulatory Abuses and Misconduct within the Treasury Department.