The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: It’s Worse Than You Think + "The Deep State Mafia is running both political parties" Journalist Whitney Webb reveals | Redacted
"The Deep State Mafia is running both political parties" Journalist Whitney Webb reveals | Redacted Source: Redacted The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: It’s Worse Than You Think While J.D. Vance has his own controversies, his 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. BY WHITNEY WEBB After the recent revelation that Donald Trump had selected J.D. Vance as his Vice President, public attention not only turned toward Vance, but also to the billionaire Peter Thiel . Vance has been one of several prominent Thiel protégés whose profile has risen in recent years, with other protégés of the PayPal co-founder including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey . Recent reports have also noted that Thiel first recruited Vance into his circle while Vance was still a student at Yale Law Sc