Read the JD Vance Dossier

For candidates running for office, opposition research on your life can be quite telling.  Last month, Iranian nation-state hackers broke into the Trump for President campaign network and extracted a number of documents which many outlets are not publishing so they don’t contribute to foreign government election interference.

But Ken Klippenstein, an independent journlaist who covers national security issues and US politics, published a redacted opposition research file on Vice Presidential candidate Senator JD Vance.  If you’d like to read it, go to https://www.kenklippenstein.com/ and tool around until you find the free download of the 271 page document.

“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,” writes Klippenstein, who had his X.com account permanemently banned.

If you want to get right to the document, go here.

The highlights are on page 18; I have cut and pasted and the formatting isn’t right:

Political
Voting History & Party Affiliation
• Since 2018, Vance has failed to vote in at least four elections including the 2020 primary
elections.
• Vance was not a registered Republican Party voter in Hamilton County between
September 2018 and May 2022.

Lobbying Ties
• While not a lobbyist himself, Vance’s old law firm, Sidley Austin, lobbied on behalf of
several controversial clients during his tenure with the company.
o Between 2014 and 2015, Sidley Austin lobbied on behalf of Purdue Pharma, the
maker of OxyContin, who has paid billions of dollars in criminal and civil
penalties related to the opioid epidemic.
o Between 2014 and 2015, Sidley Austin lobbied on behalf of multiple Chinese
Communist Party-affiliated companies including Alibaba and Kaisa Group.
 In 2020, Alibaba, is a Chinese company which operates e-commerce
platforms, was named by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a company
Pompeo urged American companies to remove from their digital
networks.
 Kaisa Group is a Chinese real estate firm that was probed over alleged
links to a former state official involved in a graft investigation.

• Vance once implied that Trump is prone to lying.
o In 2017, Vance criticized Trump for saying “half-truths or lies” so frequently
“that you stop actually taking the president literally.
• Vance appeared to be critical of Trump’s comments surrounding the events in
Charlottesville.
o Following the Charlottesville protests, Vance said Trump “really missed an
opportunity to name this phenomenon and gives people a sense where it comes
from and show the moral leadership people want from a president”.
o Vance said Trump was “ambivalent or too cautious about coming out and
criticizing” racism and Nazism.
o Vance said Trump failing to unite the country following Charlottesville was a
“missed opportunity”.
Privileged & Confidential
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• Early in the Trump Administration, Vance indicated Trump was failing on his legislative
priorities.
o In 2017, Vance said, “I think you hear from a lot of different people if you’re on
the ground in these areas talking to people is a broad recognition that things aren’t
going fantastically well right now” regarding Trump’s legislative priorities.
o Vance: “A bigger problem, I think, is the feeling that the big pushes that the
president has really made on health care, on some of these other issues, haven’t
really materialized”.
o Vance noted there was a “sense that the President just isn’t able to deliver”.
2020 Election
• Vance, at times, appeared dismissive of efforts to highlight fraud in the 2020 election.
o After the 2020 election, Vance said people questioning the 2020 election results
would not become violent and also said Biden would be inaugurated.

There’s no mention of couches or dolphin porn, but the shear amount of flip-flopping Vance has done in his political life is nothing short of extraordinary.  And this was a document prepared by the Trump campaign…and they still picked him.