JD Vance

JD Vance suspect profile

Peter Thiel’s handpicked successor. The Hillbilly Elegy author turned senator turned Vice President, bankrolled into politics by the PayPal mafia. Vance is the tech oligarchy’s direct pipeline into the White House.


Corruption of Power

1970s

1990s

2019

2020

2025


Intelligence Operations

2025


Trafficking

2014

2025


Tech Oligarchy

1990s

2014

2010s

2025

2026


Connections

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Trump & Vance connection board
Trump & Vance
The billionaire class needed a loyal voice inside the White House – they got two. Trump holds the megaphone; Vance holds the ideology. Neither answers to the voters who put them there.
Musk & Vance connection board
Musk & Vance
Thiel’s money made Vance a senator. Musk’s platform made him a media figure. Now Vance sits a heartbeat from the presidency and Musk runs a shadow government through DOGE. The investment has paid off spectacularly.
Rubio & Vance connection board
Rubio & Vance
Two men who despised Trump before they needed him. Both ended up in the Cabinet anyway. The ideological flexibility required was total – and neither of them blinked when the moment came.
Thiel & Vance connection board
Thiel & Vance
The venture capitalist wrote the check that bought the Senate seat. The senator became the Vice President. Return on investment: direct access to the nuclear codes, the federal budget, and the levers of American foreign policy.
Leavitt & Vance connection board
Leavitt & Vance
She says the words. He provides the theory. Together they make authoritarianism sound like common sense.