> thiel gets mentioned more after vance that's because vance is thiel's pet project. in vance's own memoir, he calls his first meeting with thiel as one of the most significant moments of his life. he's gotten tens of millions in investments from thiel and even named his company after some lord of the rings widget like thiel. vance credits the whole reason he became catholic to thiel's direct mentorship. this was before thiel put tens of millions into vance's campaigns and before thiel personally brought vance to mar-a-lago to meet trump and push him as the vp candidate. thiel got brought up a ton after vance was named vp candidate because thiel is far and away vance's single biggest patron. half the reason trump picked vance was because it would smooth things over with a clique of billionaires around thiel, who were doubting trump's viability as a candidate.
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