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JD Vance was born James Donald Bowman? And he changed his name? THREE TIMES? (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2024 OP
Yet when a trans person tries to run, they run into red tape ck4829 Jul 2024 #1
Has this been fact checked? calguy Jul 2024 #2
Yep true Cattledog Jul 2024 #4
Didn't like the name Donald! Changed to David? ALBliberal Jul 2024 #3
His mother's maiden name is Vance Joinfortmill Jul 2024 #5
James Donald David Bowman Hamel Vance is a modified George Santos... agingdem Jul 2024 #6
Anything to malaise Jul 2024 #7
Wtf? He is so damn creepy and weird. nt still-prayin4rain Jul 2024 #8
Pumpkinhead JD suffers from multiple personalities Miami Blue Jul 2024 #9
Pumpkinhead... that's for sure his new nickname. nt still-prayin4rain Jul 2024 #10
Four times, if you count Trump calling him "JD Mandel." GoCubsGo Jul 2024 #11
It's not that weird onenote Jul 2024 #12
ty for the post. Let's get back to fundamental topics. Tetrachloride Jul 2024 #13
Will this be this idiots new name? LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2024 #14
JD George Santos in a beard LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2024 #15

calguy

(6,168 posts)
2. Has this been fact checked?
Thu Jul 25, 2024, 12:10 PM
Jul 2024

There's so much crap flying around the internet that I have a hard time thinking most it is not believable.

ALBliberal

(3,390 posts)
3. Didn't like the name Donald! Changed to David?
Thu Jul 25, 2024, 12:11 PM
Jul 2024

Now that is irony.

(I personally don’t have a problem with the name Donald many friends named “Don”.

Joinfortmill

(21,679 posts)
5. His mother's maiden name is Vance
Thu Jul 25, 2024, 12:31 PM
Jul 2024

Apparently, his father walked out on them and his grandparents mostly raised him. As for the other, no idea.

agingdem

(8,958 posts)
6. James Donald David Bowman Hamel Vance is a modified George Santos...
Thu Jul 25, 2024, 12:33 PM
Jul 2024

now that's what I call deep dive MAGA vetting!!!

Miami Blue

(379 posts)
9. Pumpkinhead JD suffers from multiple personalities
Thu Jul 25, 2024, 01:24 PM
Jul 2024

Psycho JD is a little man who has been an
unreasonable dude on various contentious
topics throughout his entire life. His behavior
is due to his overwhelming traumatic experiences as the child of a junky.
Sad

So he is now employing bombastic rhetoric
precisely like the one that his brain-dead master
TraitorTrump is utilizing day-in, day-out.
🖕🏻

I far as I am concerned JD is full of shit,
and a hogwash weird dude.


GoCubsGo

(35,007 posts)
11. Four times, if you count Trump calling him "JD Mandel."
Thu Jul 25, 2024, 01:29 PM
Jul 2024

I, for one, will always know him as "The Couch Fucker." And, quite frankly, I don't give a shit that the story is false. With all the lies he and his party have told about Democrats over the decades, it's about time the tables were turned.

onenote

(46,228 posts)
12. It's not that weird
Thu Jul 25, 2024, 01:32 PM
Jul 2024

When he was born his mom, whose maiden name was Vance, was married to Donald Bowman and JD was named James Donald Bowman. His dad walked out on the family when JD was quite young. After divorcing Bowman, his mother eventually married Bob Hamel who adopted JD and, they decided to change James Donald Bowman to James David Hamel (getting rid of the references to the father who had abandoned the family). Later his mom, who had substance abuse issues, and Hamel divorced and JD was placed in the care of his maternal grandparents. Estranged from both his biological father and the man who had adopted him but then divorced his mother, he decided in college to take the surname Vance, the name of the grandparents that helped raise him. So basically he only changed his name once and for a legitimate reason.

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