Billionaire Peter Theil hired JD Vance out of college, then funded his business venture. Then funded his senate run in Ohio.
Finally, Theil met with Trump and asked him to pick JD as his VP.
Elon Musk was replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO of X.com, which was renamed PayPal in June 2001 and went public in 2002.
Musk owned X.com and Thiel owned Confinity. The two merged and became PayPal.
Thiel is German born, Musk is South Africa.
Gawker magazine outed Thiel as being gay. He couldn’t sue for defamation as it was true. So when Gawker published Hulk Hogan’s sex tapes, Thiel funded Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker, winning over $100 million.