Bruuuuh
What if they always knew and used Trump to sneak Vance in?
But if that was it they wouldn't be fighting against it
Peter Thiel got Vance in position. They would absolutely love to get Trump out of the way.
Everybody at the top knows Trump is a child fukker. The reasons he's not a pariah is because he's a useful idiot that can bring the destruction those above him want and because democrats were fukking children with him. If it was something he was dabbling in just by himself he would've been outed when he first ran.
JD Vance was a nobody that Trump picked "out the blue" and wouldn't have ever made a primary ballot if he ran because nobody knows who he is. "JD Vance" is just another name among many he's had. Peter Thiel & Curtis Yarvin knew that and knew even if you can frame an election, you still need hundreds of millions of votes. That was Trump's only job, anything after is him just showing his face. Trump's not really behind any of the shyt you see, he's not even close enough to being smart enough.
If you look at his first term and this one, he didn't really do shyt the first one besides grift, raise debt, and fumble a pandemic. We're only 6 months into this one and he's systematically destroying shyt even though everybody he's appointed has never had a millisecond of experience. Yet he knows exactly where and how to hit things where they either can't be or won't be fixed well past any of us will be around to see. That's because somebody else is pulling the strings this term, Thiel & Yarvin, which Vance is extremely close to and quoted on the campaign trail. Trump is an idiot and a means to an end, he's happy playing as long as he stays out of prison and corporations & this country gives him billions. Vance is the one they pull levers through and the real one they installed.