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Drug use puts him in sharp contrast to policy priorities. During his speech to the GOP this summer, he spoke about his mother’s struggle with drug addiction and how it helped him in his anti-drug stance. Since joining the Senate, she has become one of the leading voices against drug traffickers, and she joined in on Donald Trump’s suggestion that drug dealers should face the death penalty.
A number of different pieces of identifying information were provided in one of the posts, in which Kofsky shared a video of Vance at a Senate hearing. There were two big bread crumbs that helped me confirm the account’s identity was Kofsky’s.
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The Crypto Industry Predictions for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Crypto Conference: Vance, Biden, and the Trump-Trump Campaign
He is an adviser to the financial policy. It’s difficult to tell just how much influence Kofsky had on Vance’s crypto policy, but it was enough to warrant a short Politico profile praising him for it. From what I could tell from his X account (before he locked it yesterday), Kofsky held many of the same deregulatory positions as Vance and the crypto industry at large. In fact, Stand With Crypto, one of the largest pro-cryptocurrency super PACs, has given Vance and Trump both a “thumbs up” rating on the issue. President Joe Biden was rated a “thumbs down” while the vice presidency was rated a “thumbs up”.
Beyond the Trump family’s personal crypto ventures, the campaign has been raking in millions of dollars in donations from coin holders. According to CNBC, the last Federal Election Commission deadline before the election was Tuesday, with more than $7.5 million in donations made in cryptocurrencies. The Trump campaign and the RNC are part of the joint committee. While the crypto donations are only a fraction of the $145 million total raised, the donations still show the growing influence of what was once a nascent industry.
That the crypto industry clearly favors the Trump-Vance campaign has seemingly spooked the Harris campaign to some degree. Harris announced her support for the technology this week, as a new initiative to protect Black men who have invested in these assets was announced.
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