Trump Picks JD Vance for VP

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jul. 15, 2024

Former President Donald Trump on Monday announced he was selecting Peter Thiel acolyte JD Vance as his choice for Vice President.








This meme went viral on Twitter:



People are falsely claiming he's against Ukraine but that's not true -- he has simply put out some mild anti-Ukraine rhetoric.




Jewish Insider reported in May that Vance was "putting a pro-Israel spin" on the "America First" world view.


From today in the Jewish Daily Forward, "What a JD Vance vice presidency would mean for American Jews and Israel":
Vance has said that antisemitism must be prosecuted. “If you beat up a Jew and don’t face consequences, the attacks will continue and get worse,” he said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post in 2022.

In response to campus pro-Palestinian protests, Vance introduced a bill that would bar colleges and universities from receiving federal financial assistance if they do not remove disruptive encampments from their campuses. He also said the government should target organizations that fund the protests.

But Vance was also a promoter of replacement theory during the 2022 campaign, versions of which implicate Jews as the orchestraters of a plan to replace white Americans with people of color. He warned of an immigrant “invasion” ahead of the midterm elections to influence the vote.

Vance hasn’t signed up as a co-sponsor of the bipartisan Countering Antisemitism Act, which was introduced in the Senate in April. It proposes the appointment of a new presidential adviser dedicated to antisemitism, separate from Ambassador Deborah Lipsdtadt, who holds a cabinet-level position focused on global antisemitism. The new adviser would also help implement the White House plan to combat antisemitism across agencies. His name is also missing from a similar bill that mandates the Department of Education use the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, which classifies most anti-Zionism as antisemitic.

[...] During the 2022 campaign, he defended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia — who endorsed him — after she attended and addressed a white nationalist conference organized by Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, saying that she “did nothing wrong.” Vance called her a “friend” and said he watched her remarks and “agreed with nearly every word that she said.” Greene has been accused in the past of making antisemitic remarks — including her suggestion that a Jewish-funded space laser had sparked wildfires in California in 2018. In 2021, Vance, a strong proponent of free speech, criticized X for suspending Fuentes’s account. He declined to condemn Trump’s dinner with rapper Kanye West and Fuentes in 2022.
Vance is clearly a savvy political actor and perhaps he is the best out of Trump's lackluster VP list.

Jewish Insider reported earlier this month that Doug Burgum was the "favorite of pro-Israel Republicans."

I'm not expecting much either way. My main fear of a Trump presidency is that Bill Ackman's "friends" will staff his administration, he'll back Israel to the hilt and go to war with Iran just because Miriam Adelson is dumping $100 million into his campaign.



That said, perhaps there's a chance that if Trump's poll numbers surge and he doesn't need tons of money from the Israel Lobby to get elected he may have a bit of independence. I don't think it's likely -- it didn't happen during his first term when he relied on the Lobby far less -- but it's possible.

UPDATE: There it is.


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