Blackmail may not have anything to do with it. Thiel helped him get rich, and now he and his techbro buddies fed Vance’s insatiable ambition by securing him a slot on the 2024 Republican ticket (and perhaps the top slot on the 2028 one). Someone as shameless as Vance has no problem deflecting from the fact that he made this and similar statements in the past.
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