Is Peter Thiel (The man behind J.D. Vance) the "Master-of-Puppets" in Trump's most recent Assassination attempt?
The man behind J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance generates some controversy all by himself, but his close connections to the billionaire Peter Thiel should worry every American who cares about privacy and freedom.Â
Thiel was born in Germany, is almost always referred to as an American, and "he was controversially granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011." After law school, Thiel worked as a securities lawyer for Sullivan and Cromwell in New York. Even Wikipedia notes "It was among the first U.S. firms to open overseas offices... its history includes controversial actions such as aiding Nazi Germany's arms buildup" and the firm also included former partners like Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother and CIA Director Allen Dulles. "Thiel is a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group" which is usually lumped together with the Club of Rome and the Illuminati as one of the most controlling, globalist, Marxist? Evil? groups of the rich and powerful on Earth.
Thiel's companies are all about helping establish an Orwellian surveillance state.  During PayPal’s early days, Thiel and friends contacted government and intelligence agencies to win official support and contracts for their services. After founding PayPal, Thiel took an even more directly deep state path with another company he created called Palantir. America may run on Dunkin, but the surveillance state runs on Palantir products, going all the way back to a surveillance database called Main Core. It mainly accumulated information on a list of Americans government might want to incarcerate in the event of terrorism, plague, war, civil unrest, etc. Or, reminiscent of Minority Report - to help crush dissent and remove potential troublemakers from society BEFORE such events occur. Are you an "enemy of the state"? Peter Thiel and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale would know. "Palantir's first backer was the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel. The company steadily grew and in 2015 was valued at $20 billion, with Thiel being the company's largest shareholder." And both personally, and through Palantir, they have backed a Trump-Vance super PAC named America PAC.Â
As if they need to buy more influence to work their tentacles deeper into the military and surveillance complexes.... Thiel started donating millions of dollars to Trump campaigns in 2016. He says he is a libertarian, but he donated over $20 million to Republican candidates in 2022. Thiel's investment fund (Founders Fund) has roughly $12 billion under its control and "was the first institutional investor in Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Palantir Technologies." Another Thiel-backed company, Anduril, makes drones for Ukraine. Yet another Thiel company, ClearView AI, mainly used photos posted on Facebook (backed but not founded by Thiel; Wikipedia says "he was the first outside investor in Facebook" - later selling his $500,000 investment for over a billion dollars) to develop their own facial recognition database. Thiel's defense-related companies are leading the way to program AI to replace human decision-making.
Thiel explained in a 2009 essay that he had come to "no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." Yet for all of Thiel's work placing surveillance and security above privacy rights: "In May 2016, Thiel confirmed in an interview with The New York Times that he had paid $10 million in legal expenses to finance several lawsuits brought by others, including a lawsuit by Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) against Gawker Media for invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and infringement of personality rights after Gawker made sections of a sex tape involving Bollea public. The jury awarded Bollea $140 million, and Gawker announced it was permanently closing due to the lawsuit in August 2016.... Thiel said he was motivated to sue Gawker after they published a 2007 article publicly outing him, headlined 'Peter Thiel is totally gay, people.'" Rules for thee, not for me....
Getting back to politics, let's revisit one of Thiel's former employees - Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance. "When JD Vance first met Peter Thiel in 2011, Vance was a student at Yale Law School and Thiel, a venture capitalist, gave a speech at the university criticizing modern society." "Between 2016 and 2017, he [Vance] served as a principal at Peter Thiel's firm, Mithril Capital.... In 2019, Vance co-founded venture capital firm Narya Capital in Cincinnati with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen.... With Thiel and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton, Vance has invested in Rumble, a Canadian online video platform popular with the political right.... In March 2021, Peter Thiel gave $10 million to Protect Ohio Values, a super PAC created in February to support a potential Vance candidacy" [for the Senate race in Ohio, which Vance won the next year.] "....Several media and industry figures are said to have lobbied for Vance to be on the presidential ticket, including Elon Musk, David O. Sacks, Tucker Carlson, and Peter Thiel, who first introduced Trump to Vance in 2021.... Vance was influenced to convert to Catholicism by Peter Thiel." I do like Vance's promotion of family values and his suggestion that that there should be larger child tax credits and that the U.S. should "reward the things that we think are good" and "punish the things that we think are bad." More importantly, I don't like that you could argue - Thiel has Vance in his pocket.
What might Peter Thiel's access lead to during a Vance presidency? I would expect a shift towards more war and a surveillance-oriented tech-tatorship. Do I think the main beneficiaries of a Trump assassination would be Vance and Thiel and the CIA and the NSA and the FBI? It certainly seems like it. Does that mean they are in any way behind such assassination attempts? I don't know that they are. Of course JFK was assassinated in 1963 and there are still countless theories blaming the CIA, Vice-President Johnson, the mafia, Fidel Castro, and many others.
The likely CIA contractor Ryan Routh apparently waited twelve hours at the edge of the golf course where he aimed to shoot Trump yesterday. But the golf course was not on Trump's schedule. Who in the inner circle might have tipped off those who told Routh where to go? Alex Jones seems to have implicated a certain senator moments ago, one who has been itching for war with Russia in order to get at the region's valuable natural resources. Trump keeps saying he can end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Let's just consider that Trump benefits from a failed attempt on his life because as a victim or would-be martyr he gains public support. And if a shooter succeeds in removing Trump, Vance would likely become president. Peter Thiel will have unprecedented access to a president he has chosen religion for and has introduced to Trump and has financed campaigns for to get Vance into the Senate, and by that point, the presidency. More surveillance of American citizens and more war with Russia are likely to follow. I think these are insights worth contemplating as we wonder about the second attempt to shoot Trump yesterday.