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Who is J.D. Vance?

Business ties to technocrats involved in mRNA technology, government surveillance and even the shadowy Bilderbergs should lead Trump supporters to question this pick

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Jul 17, 2024
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J.D. Vance is going to deliver the keynote speech at tonight’s RNC.

He’s an unlikely pick for Trump’s vice president given his history as a “never Trumper.”

But who is the man behind the public persona that is Ohio Senator J.D. Vance?

By all accounts, his personal life appears stellar. A family man, a recent convert to Catholicism. All good.

But what about his business ties?

On May 5, 2021, an article appeared in the Columbus Dispatch, one of Ohio’s largest newspapers. The focus of the article was a startup firm called AmplifyBio, a gene therapy company that opened its doors in spring of that year.

The company operates in a 210,000-square-foot lab employing 135 people in Columbus, Ohio, starting out with $200 million in working capital.

Of that amount, $100 million in cash came from a nonprofit, and another $100 million was provided by three venture capital firms, one of which is owned by J.D. Vance.

Maybe I’m wrong but I believe we can tell more about Vance’s belief structure by what he inve…

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