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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJD Vance was born James Donald Bowman? And he changed his name? THREE TIMES?
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ck4829
(38,093 posts)calguy
(6,168 posts)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)Now that is irony.
(I personally dont have a problem with the name Donald many friends named Don.
Joinfortmill
(21,679 posts)Apparently, his father walked out on them and his grandparents mostly raised him. As for the other, no idea.
agingdem
(8,958 posts)now that's what I call deep dive MAGA vetting!!!
malaise
(298,036 posts)ADVANCE
still-prayin4rain
(525 posts)Miami Blue
(379 posts)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.
still-prayin4rain
(525 posts)GoCubsGo
(35,007 posts)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)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.
Tetrachloride
(9,707 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(182,155 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
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