JD Vance is the loyal converted to the head

Thiel, the founder of Palantir and a member of the so -called Paypal mafia together with Musk, has set a large part of the Vance’s 2022 Senate race.

It is perhaps the most mysterious and most feared of the Vance’s billionaire allies in the Trump Administration, the source that served me the first time. And they are happy to see less than him than when he played a more active and conventional role as a donor in 2016, including keeping a speech to the National Republican Convention, where he complained in particular the way in which “instead of going to Mars, we invaded the Middle East”.

In Trumpworld, Thiel now gets the merit of “putting his head down”. (“Now, it means that it is withdrawn from politics”, do they say, “or withdrawn from public politics?”)

Thiel did not return a commentary request.

The man holding the cards

Although Vance partially established his brand in the party as a critic of “Big Tech”, included a Difficulty around data collectiona call to section 230 and even a will Break some companies According to the Antitrust Law: his arrival on the ticket and after the White House has brought with him a world view and connections to a network of literal elites who have never adapted with the populist wing, the backbone of the Trump movement in the last ten years.

“The base always has a suspicion of technology and Steve Bannon is a good symbol,” tells me a source of Trumpworld close to the president. “There is always this high level of suspicion with the technological crowd, The Tech Bros.”

“JD continues to keep those cards with the Bros Tech”, tells me the source close to Trump.

“I think it has grown only in force, to the point where, we have an election in 2028 and I think it is the front-runner, but is there also a list of challengers right now?” The former Trump administration official adds.

Some sources of Trumpworld noticed that the role of Vance as an ambassador for the right to liberty technology and his eccentric financiers was largely the result of a cash crunch that faces the Trump campaign in view of the general elections of 2024.

Vance proved to be the right man at the right time, the source close to Trump tells me when he remembers what they describe as a “perfect storm” of factors that go to the vault this time last year. “At that point, [Trump] I realized that you had to do something else. “

Just because the figures of the Silicon Valley have supported Trump does not mean having the ear directly, at least not all the time. According to reports, Larry Ellison, the billionaire executive president of Oracle, the current American buyer of Tiktok met in private with Trump several times In recent weeks. But Marc Andreesen, the billionaire investor and former software engineer who writes Manifestos in his free time, has gained a reputation in Trumpworld for exaggerating his relationship with Trump after having spent time in Mar-a-lago working on the control staff during the transition, a Senior administration source says Washed. Since then, Trump hasn’t talked to Andreesen “so much”, he told me the source. Andreessen, one of the best thought leaders of technology and influences on the party’s wing wing of the party, exercises its influence “through the vice -president, mainly”, says the Senior source of administration.