Vance is a ball of putty that can be molded by anyone that acknowledges his ego. he's probably more like Trump in that way than most people think.
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During his time working in venture capital in San Francisco, Vance became a protégé of Peter Thiel, a PayPal co-founder who is considered something of a kingmaker in Silicon Valley. When Vance ran for Senate, Thiel fueled his run with a $15 million donation.
Vance also made inroads with David Sacks, a former tech executive and podcaster who has become a loud cheerleader for Musk since the billionaire acquired Twitter, now X. Sacks recently held a Trump fundraiser at his home in San Francisco, raking in $12 million for the former president. Sacks this week spoke at the Republican National Convention, where he spent much of his time bashing President Biden over the U.S. supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia.
Using X as a megaphone, Musk and Sacks have been blasting out daily rallying cries for Trump and Vance. “Come on in,” Sacks wrote on X on Tuesday following a list of prominent tech figures now backing Trump. “The water’s warm.”
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https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/g-s1-...h-billionaires
There is a reason people don't really recognize him from the Vance of a few years ago.
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Publicly, he called the Republican presidential candidate an "idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, he compared him to Adolf Hitler.
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"I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical ####### like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler," he wrote privately to an associate on Facebook in 2016.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/jd-...es-2024-07-15/
See, back then he recognized exactly what Trump is. Once he had his ego massaged by the tech bros? Smoosh. Putty. He's as feckless as he is un-charismatic.