Available! The Trump Campaign's 271-Page Oppo Research File on JD Vance
Yes, Vance said Trump was human garbage in 2016. New reports reveal he was shitting on Trump in private DMs as recently as 2020.
Marcie Jones, Wonkette, Septeber 27, 2024
Well, it’s out! Journalist Ken Klippenstein released that JD Vance dossier, the one Iranian hackers with an aol address spear-phished from the geniuses at the Trump campaign. You can download and read the whole thing over on his Substack. And hoo boy does Vance talk a lotta shit!
There are no actual secrets in there, it’s all information that was already publicly available. But when you see it all in one place, it sure is a lot of smacktalk. . . .
Vance called Trump a fraud, a liar, “terrible candidate,” “reprehensible” and called him “dangerous” many times, and said that he “loathed” him, that he was “unfit for office,” and that he offered people “zero substance for how to improve their lives.” He said Trump’s popularity was fueled by “racial resentment” and was “leading people into racially ugly attitudes,” and “pulling them in a more racist direction.” He said there was some basis in truth to Hillary Clinton’s statement that Trump’s supporters were a “basket of deplorables.” . . .
Other tidbits: he said he believed women who said they sexually assaulted by Trump, and also said nice things about Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, quelle horreur! He supported ObamaCare, once upon a time believed in climate change, that the 2020 election was not stolen, and, worst of all, in evolution. He poo-pooed the border wall! And the “Muslim ban”! All things that are apparently terrible weaknesses for anyone in the Republican party of today. . . .
[H]e didn’t even register as a Republican until 2022! . . .
Oddly not in there, the time Vance called Trump “America’s Hitler” and a “cynical asshole like Nixon.” That’s like his best quote!
James Donald Bowman James David Hamel J.D. Hamel J.D. Vance JD Vance’s couch dalliances — or his utter inability to purchase a simple fuckin donut — are not mentioned.
Ken Klippenstein, September 26, 2024
Behold the dossier.
It reportedly comes from an alleged Iranian government hack of the Trump campaign, and since June, the news media has been sitting on it (and other documents), declining to publish in fear of finding itself at odds with the government’s campaign against “foreign malign influence.”
I disagree. The dossier has been offered to me and I’ve decided to publish it because it’s of keen public interest in an election season. It’s a 271-page research paper the Trump campaign prepared to vet now vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verifiable. I’ll let it speak for itself. . . .
If the document had been hacked by some “anonymous” like hacker group, the news media would be all over it. I’m just not a believer of the news media as an arm of the government, doing its work combatting foreign influence. Nor should it be a gatekeeper of what the public should know.
JD Vance Research Dossier
6.17MB ∙ PDF file. . . “Robert” offered the document to me in an email from an AOL address. That’s the same moniker used by the individual that reportedly provided other internal campaign materials to news media outlets. When I pressed “Robert” on their motives behind releasing the documents and their provenance, his reply was coarse:
“It doesn’t matter. Let the media and the authorities go ahead with their own guesses and bullshits [sic]. I just want to shine some light into the dark room.”
The room isn’t very dark. In fact, I’ve argued that while Iran, Russia, and China are attempting to stoke chaos in an already chaotic American political scene, there’s no evidence that any of these often harebrained efforts could actually swing an election outcome. These are the same “active measures” that have been undertaken since the Cold War. The United States does it as well. For the intelligence community and the FBI, it is a cat and mouse game to catch the other guys. But for the American people and the 2024 elections, it is unremarkable. . . .
This is not the Steele Dossier of 2016, with its golden showers and anti-Trump fanfiction. Unlike the Steele Dossier, which was both fraudulent and discredited, the Vance Dossier is factual and intelligently written. No Jason Bourne style capers appear, and there’s no sleaze. Instead, the Vance Dossier enumerates pretty reasonable liabilities as a then-contender for VP nominee . . .
So the document is clearly newsworthy, providing Republican Party and conservative doctrine insight into what the Trump campaign perceives to be Vance’s liabilities and weaknesses. Those perceptions provide clues about what a campaign of remarkably little substance might actually think.
While the news media has paraphrased some of the contents of the dossier, what they haven’t done is provide the American people with the underlying document, in the language in which it appeared, so they can decide for themselves what they think. You decide for yourself.
Leon — noted champion of free speech — banned Klippenstein from Xitter after he posted the document.