Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance has a long history of having ties to white supremacy and hanging out with a lot of people who seem to have the same ideas he does about Jewish people.
Vance, who wrote the introduction to Project 2025, has promoted Adolf Hitler's "Great Replacement Theory" as well as voted against the Countering Antisemitism Act.
While he's scrubbed his social media of any posts calling Donald Trump "America's Hitler," Vance remains close with right-wing tech bro Peter "PayPal" Thiel, who funded his entire Senate campaign and has spread anti-Semitic propaganda. The two also co-founded Rumble, aka "Nazi YouTube."
But it's Vance's ties to SpaceX owner Elon Musk that currently seem the most problematic in light of Musk openly supporting the Trump/Vance campaign.
Musk had been funding a PAC run by Trump advisor Stephen Miller even before he acquired Twitter, but now there are new questions as to how Vance might have ended up as VP between his connections to Thiel and Musk.
Freelance journalist Nancy Levine recently uncovered a 2023 letter from Vance to Attorney General Merrick Garland in defense of Musk after the Department of Justice brought a lawsuit against Space X. "What value does the DOJ perceive in further extracting a pound of flesh from a company that was seeking in good faith to balance competing legal duties?"
The "pound of flesh" is an anti-Semitic reference to Shylock, the Jewish moneylender from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, who demands that as payment on a defaulted loan.
The antisemitism is a feature of the Trump/Vance campaign, not a bug.