Claiming that he believes the campaign doesn’t need his donations, Peter Thiel–the man who launched JD Vance’s political career with the stroke of a pen on the bottom of a $10 million check–says he won’t make any donations to the campaign Vance jumped onto, headed by Donald Trump, the New York Times reports.
Saying he was “disinclined to do it,” Thiel predicted to the Times that the Trump-Vance ticket was going to kick liberal ass in the November election. He just won’t put his money behind it. “I went on record saying I would not give money to super PACs, and I still feel I have to stick with that,” he said. “I think it’s going to be very different from 2016 or 2020. I don’t think the election is going to be close. I think Trump and JD will crush the election by a solid margin: 4 percent or 5 percent of the popular vote. And it doesn’t matter what I do. It doesn’t matter what Democrat donors do.”
While very generous in helping Vance buy his seat as well as in a losing effort in Arizona to promote Blake Masters in 2022, Thiel only gave $1 million to Trump’s 2016 effort and nothing to the failing 2020 reelection campaign.