Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, quit her job as a corporate litigator at DNC-affiliated Munger, Tolles & Olson, within minutes of hearing that JD had been selected as President Trump’s Vice-President nominee and running mate. Usha Vance worked in Washington DC for the firm.
SAN FRANCISCO – […] Usha Vance confirmed that she will be stepping aside in a separate statement to SFGATE.
“In light of today’s news, I have resigned from my position at Munger, Tolles & Olson to focus on caring for our family,” she said. “I am forever grateful for the opportunities I’ve had at Munger and for the excellent colleagues and friends I’ve worked with over the years.”
[…] Usha worked as a litigator in the firm’s San Francisco and Washington, D.C., offices, where her practice mainly dealt with “complex litigation and appeals in a wide variety of sectors, including higher education, local government, entertainment, and technology, including semiconductors.” It also stated that she lives in Cincinnati with her husband and three children. (read more)
According to India Today – “JD Vance, who was once a Trump critic, said he had the full support of his Indian-origin wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, who was present at the convention.
[…] Usha attended Yale Law School, where she met her future husband, JD Vance, in 2013. They worked together to organise a discussion group on the subject of “social decline in white America”, The New York Times reported.
The two quickly bonded soon after, with JD Vance often referring to Usha as his “Yale spirit guide”. They got married in 2014 after graduating from Yale Law School.
Usha holds a BA in history from Yale University and an MPhil in early modern history from the University of Cambridge.
During her time at Yale, Usha served as the executive development editor of the Yale Law Journal and managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. She participated in the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, people.com reported.
JD Vance and Usha have had three children since their marriage in 2014 — two sons, Ewan and Vivek, and a daughter, Mirabel.
Usha has been instrumental in her husband’s political journey, often accompanying him to political events and providing guidance and support.
She has been involved in her husband’s political campaigns, including his successful Senate campaigns in 2016 and 2022. She has also been registered to vote as a Republican in Ohio since 2018. JD Vance has publicly acknowledged her influence, expressing gratitude for her role in shaping his decisions and opportunities. (read more)
JD Vance will likely lead the transition team for President Donald Trump, and it will be very useful for him to have Usha Chilukuri Vance beside him to help staff some of the more important legal positions around the office of the presidency.
From the descriptions of her legal endeavors in/around Washington DC, Usha Vance, likely knows some of the best legal minds available.
In fitting with the theme of the nomination, another San Francisco lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon, closed the night at the RNC with a Sikh prayer. WATCH:
Message from the RNC and some MAGA Republicans to followers of Sikhism and Hinduism: you can join our Party, you can vote for our candidates, you can work for our candidates, but we don’t want you to hold or run for or be anywhere near public office in or from our Party. You are less than and suspect.
Too bad there wasn’t as much suspicion of devout Christian Mike Pence as there is of Vance’s Hindu wife. Anyone remember Mike Lindell and MTG attempting to push Harmeet Dhillon out of the running for RNC chair because of her Sikhism? God rewarded Lindell with a bankruptcy and MTG with a broken marriage.
Dhillon was caught trying to undermine Trump and MAGA in California with party antics.
Why would it be Lindell’s and Greene’s responsibility to stop Dhillon from running for RNC chair.
And you’re speaking for God on why Lindell went bankrupt and Greene had a broken marriage?
Blasphemous?
Maybe Lindell went bankrupt because of Lawfare against him over his election integrity efforts.
And maybe Greene had a busted marriage over some personal issues between her and her spouse.
Message from the vast majority of American Conservatives:
Ignore the Moral Conservatives.
Andante, do not speak for American Conservatives, we believe in the separation of Church and State. Go form your own party if so wish.
I have worked, work now and know many Shiks and Hindus… a bunch of them are 2nd generation Americans. They are fine hard working intelligent people… politically conservatives.
Jesus H. Christ, Andante, what prejudiced, racist, anti Christian thing to say.
My advice to you is: REPENT.
You have totally misunderstood what I was saying. I was characterizing some of the bigoted attitudes I have witnessed among Republicans towards Sikhs and Hindus. These are not my attitudes. I’m puzzled at this ridiculous mis reading of what i was saying.
Total misunderstanding. You’re welcome to apologize for chastising me over nothing.
No one needs to apologize, you gave your 2 cents and people disagree with you. The comments/responses accurately reflect what you posted as typed.
As opposed to the guy who said “You can’t work at a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts without a slight Indian accent.”?
There is bigotry aplenty everywhere in every party and every group. Some are more open. Some are sneaky about it.
“less than”. Really? Go to hell.
You have misunderstood what I was saying. I was characterizing some of the bigoted positions I’m hearing from others. These are not my positions. No need to curse me out.
Splaining
Yup. Peace to all.
And were these others real people? Because there are a lot of trolls out there, and I do not meet real people in the Republican Party – even RINOs – with the attitudes you say.
After years of having been beaten over the head with “separation of church and state” at any public mention of Jesus, and then finding out that phrase isn’t even in the Constitution much less the First Amendment, I think many Christians are reacting to being forced to listen to someone else pray to their god as if it is only our God Who is offensive. (Which is probably true, but not in the way they mean.)
There is a difference between a presentation of another a religion’s prayer and saying a closing prayer to many other gods in an America Conservative Convention
For me it just doesn’t make sense how most of the commentators on here can go from praising and thank our Lord for protecting Trump to saying it OK to pray to other gods in closing the first night of the Convention.
Exodus 20:3 NIV
You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me
Luke 4:8 NIV
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.
Exactly! Thank you!
I don’t know in what universe Vance and his wife are acceptable to MAGA people. Last week Sundance said a Vance choice meant trouble.
Now we shut up and sit quietly?
uh, it’s called “Freedom of Religion”.
Ever heard of it?
Here ya go, for a refresher:
….” The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Yeah. I put that reply in the wrong place, obviously.
Respectfully Frank, we do not blindly follow here. We ask questions, research, and we wait and see.
Sundance gave his strong endorsement of Ben Carson yet Trump picked Vance. Okay so, here we are. It’s been less than 24 hours, maybe we can wait a little bit before claiming the sky is falling?
Ultimately, this was Trump’s pick to make. I’m not sure what you think we ought to be doing – ask for a “do-over”? Flip out and scream at the sky like liberals? Or, perhaps we should remain cautious and vigilant while we see what develops.
Before he was President, PLENTY of people thought Trump lacked the capacity and demeanor to lead. He was too “problematic”. Well, maybe right now Vance is too problematic for some, too. It’s too soon to tell if Trump made the right call but certainly it’s also too soon to deem it a disaster.
I will hold off on my judgement of JD Vance but, Never trust a never Trumper!
I was a never Trumper. Because I thought Cruz and Rubio – and Pence – were real people. So never-Trumpers can be wrong and come to admit it.
On the other hand, unlike a certain VP candidate, I am not receiving power and position and maybe other things as a reward for respecting Donald Trump….
I don’t think Never Trumpers can put on enough make-up, but apparently Vance has.
Both Vance and his wife’s past resumes do no speak well for them as good conservatives, and I’m not talking about religion.
Yale University both.
Skull & Bones.
Think Bushes…from clear back in Prescott days to Jr.
He is deep into politics and she was deep in governmental law. Exactly where S&B like their people to be.
A virtual unknow to most in America until picked as a candidate
Not even one full term in the Senate.
Already has a published book about his life out there.
Graduated from one of the biggest ivy league colleges
Very critical of the Trump administration
Oh my who does this remind you of.
Acceptable to “MAGA people”? Seriously? You’re feeding the very worst of the stereotypes.
Why? because he questions Vance and his wife’s ties to deep state politics!
Frank’s comment was NOT ABOUT race, sex, creed, nationality, etc etc. JD Vance was a staunch Never Trumper, he is not exactly a tried and true MAGA guy and even SUNDANCE did not like him as a V.P. Pick.
H3LL Vance was a very nasty Never Trumper—Vance spewed stuff and names that was as bad as the Globalist, actually worse at times.
NOT me–Hey I’m 75 so if people on here and other places want to Bash me for my thoughts and opinions go ahead.
However, i will keep invoking my rights to speech and not to have to follow the pack when my gut says NO.
I love your mature wisdom for one and always appreciate your input.
There are ‘fakes’ in every religion; remember Obama with ‘his’ Minister all the while being Islamic to the bone.
ALSO Pence parading as pure and bowing to the UNIPARTY every chance he got .
‘Fakes’ use religion; literally use it to pass off a false persona……..Sorry I’m feeling the ‘fake’ in Vance – he may prove me wrong, but he really is going to have to prove it with his actions; FAKES always honor the UNIPARTY before US……..it’s the best tell for public figures. Vance , like Obama, got his leg up by the UNIPARTY adherences. Yes the SAME sources sent through different ‘public’ channels.
That is why Trump is unique He ran on his own money 2016; I’ve lost a little faith with the ‘same’ sources now backing him monetarily. gives me the creeps. But he may be the one ‘doing’ the bleeding unbeknownst to him until the zing of the bullet.
God Help US
Religion used to get votes is nothing new; Biden a catholic cherishes the ‘right’ for women to abort up to birth and beyond if truth be told. AND he got 81MILLION votes. It pays to spout your religion; he actually got a meeting with the Pope to support his stance on abortion………
Fake religion, fake news, fake wars, fake data, fake vaccines…….and on and on
Conservatives are NOT against any religion but FAKE religion usage; it should have a warning attached.
I hope she too is a confirmed Catholic.
Well, as a Lutheran, I hope she’s a confirmed Lutheran.
See how that works?
REPENT all of you… Only a devout Orthodox Born Again Reformed Zoroastrian can be trusted!
There… the Moral Conservatives are pretty self righteous, prejudiced and racist, uh?
FYI…the left only likes Pastafarians, Atheist’s, Antitheists, or they worship Gaia or themselves…or the “Chosen One”…you know, BHO…or Bezulbub or Money or War or….Ok they are not Monotheists for sure…
She is a Hindu. Note their wedding attire and he refers to her as his spiritual guide.
I don’t know anything about people from India’s faith and who they worship as God, But I will say that prayer in another language calling their God the one True God at OUR AMERICAN RNC was NOT OK.
Our American RNC is the *perfect* place to confirm Freedom of Religion.
I concur.
Rather than using religion as some sort of litmus test, perhaps all people of faith can come together and, even if they disagree, work together for our common goals.
I would think “working together for common goals” would mean being respectful to Christians who find her prayer blasphemous, rather than throwing it in our face.
The Sikhs rebelled in India, around the same time the Protestants began to protest in Europe. The Sikhs have a tradition of self defense and feeding the hungry. I am not Sikh, yet do not find Sikhism not incompatible with our shared vision for our country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhs
So maybe we should close every convention night with a Muslim prayer, a Buddhist prayer, a Jewish prayer, a Shinto prayer, a Tao prayer, a Ruism prayer, Caodaism prayer, a Christian prayer and if you can think of any other large religions add them in so that no religion is forgotten.
I believe that there is only one God, and all religions are just a different path to the same place.
You’re in for a rude awakening one day.
And on what do you base that belief?
Nope, Jesus said, “I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no man comes to the Father except by Me.”.
There is no other path, only One.
MAGA is for EVERYONE.
MAGA is for anyone hoping for peace, prosperity, and security.
MAGA is for ALL Americans, the Hindus, the atheists, blacks, gays, ultra conservatives, snake handlers, everyone.
Not so long ago, Catholics in this country were demonized; the Irish and the Polish were segregated and deemed “less than.” Many couldn’t get hired. Now it’s trendy to demonize Hindus? President Trump is calling us to unity and yet you post a comment like that? SMH.
BTW, my grandmother came to the U.S. from Poland in the early 1930s. She never learned much beyond working English. Among her grandchildren are doctors, lawyers, university professors, an Emmy Award winner, and small business owners.
The American Dream is for all those who legally work to achieve it.
Go back and read some of the words of the founding fathers of this nation. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the God of One Nation under God.
If don’t know “anything”, may I suggest you don’t post again it?
I looked it up….it seems that the Hindus worship a few hundred to several million gods depending on who you ask..
What puzzles me is how some many of the commentators on here can from thanking and praising our Lord for keeping His protective hands on Trump to feeling that is it OK to have a closing prayer to other gods. at the GOP convention. Weird.
it’s not Vance’s wife’s religion for that is her right and I respect that. As I said there There is a difference between a presentation of another a religion’s prayer and saying a closing prayer to many other gods in an America Conservative Convention
Exodus 20:3 NIV
You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me
Luke 4:8 NIV
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.
Hinduism. There is only One True God, Jesus Christ.
I found CTH 10 years ago. Comments followed SD’s guidelines then.
Not anymore. Still sharp folks who look at both sides- yet Too many Concern trolls bigots keyboard warriors and downright stupid people laying down countless negative comments. Nothing like 10 years ago.
Religious brick heads – if it’s not their carve out – then you are evil.
I don’t care if JD’s wife is Hindu. Fear Judgment and Attack – see it in comments. One of my best friends is Hindu. I’m Catholic. Incredible human and a genius. Attended top university then a professional athlete. .
Happens to love Trump. His whole family loves Trump. They would do anything for and vice versa.
I was tricked by neocons prior to CTH. JD is young and may have been tricked as well. I’m not Pollyanna. I’m optimistic. Why be any other way.
You think Trump learned nothing from traitorous Pence? 4 years sharper. I support his VP and brilliant wife and mother of 3 children.
I have been on Treehouse for a long time too and I don’t ever remember Christians being called “religious brickheads”
An excerpt from J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“I broached this issue with Mamaw, confessing that I was gay and I was worried that I would burn in hell. She said, “Don’t be a f**** idiot, how would you know that you’re gay?”
I explained my thought process. Mamaw chuckled and seemed to consider how she might explain to a boy my age. Finally she asked, “J.D., do you want to suck ****?” I was flabbergasted. Why would someone want to do that”
….” She repeated herself, and I said, “Of course not!” “Then,” she said, “you’re not gay.
And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay. God would still love you.” That settled the matter. Apparently I didn’t have to worry about being gay anymore. Now that I’m older, I recognize the profundity of her sentiment: Gay people, though unfamiliar, threatened nothing about Mamaw’s being. There were more important things for a Christian to worry about.”
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Sounds like the typical tripe that people who don’t actually read the Word of God would say, but are confident they know God and what he thinks.
One final post on this topic, and then I’m done discussing Vance until further events clarify the situation.
This pick is now being sold on the idea that it will be a Vance/ Don Jr. ticket in 2028, the Don Jr, then eventually Barron Trump. In other words, a Trump family dynasty ruling America for the next twenty years.
I voted for Donald Trump the first time in order to light fire to the evil system, and the second because I was promised a return of power to
We the People.
I did not vote to exchange a Trump family oligarchy for the Bush family oligarchy.
I’m holding judgment on whether this whole selection and new messaging about Don Jr. is just more 5th gen warfare, and misdirection.
If it’s all just a Hegelian power grab between family oligarchies? Then we’re all being played and we’re screwed.
Not a good pitch, folks out there who know who you are. Not a good pitch at all.
I’ve spoken my peace.
Let’s see what happens.
I think most Americans would agree with your assessment, and therefore it is very unlikely that any of PDJT’s children will ever run for office, much less be elected to president
One bird in hand, two in the bush…
May be plausible but right now it’s the best route to take.
Sometimes you just have to play the hand you’re dealt and make the most of it for as long as you can..
Especially since Don Jr is an idiot.
Understand the need for lawfare, but stop foistng Yalies on us & pretending they are down-home folk a la the Bushies riding horses on their Texas ranches in coarse Yale sweaters. Yes, using an actual Appalachian (State dept probably has a few) is an improvement, but globalist background is worrisome w/ Chua handling & excursions in China. All conjecture but seems like continued IC.
He was raised back and forth from Kentucky and Ohio and raised by his grandparents. No pretense about him. Are all college graduates “suspect”? Are those raised in poverty supposed to continue wearing second-hand clothes and having bad teeth? Try reading his memoir – published in 2016 – you might learn about his success in life. You do sound pretty angry – why?
Try looking at his wife’s background thoroughly.
It’s not pretty.
Try looking at what he has publicly said about President Trump in the past.
I have strong suspicions about Yale, too.
But the Skull & Bones weirdos come from backgrounds of vast wealth and power and privilege…… NOT from Appalachia or an immigrant family in San Diego.
Usha is an American citizen, born and raised in the USA
Looks like a good article about Vance –
J.D. Vance’s Foreign Policy: Trump’s VP Pick on Ukraine, China, and More
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/07/16/j-d-vances-foreign-policy-donald-trumps-vp-pick-ukraine-china-more/
I just ordered Vance’s book – Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis – to learn more about him.
I have not watched this, but found this on YouTube.
I know at one time Hillbilly Elegy was on Netflix…. maybe it still is
HILLBILLY ELEGY
Watch “Film Semi full Nice(1)” on YouTube
A new Vance Bio-
Meet Sen. J.D. Vance, Trump’s Anti-Establishment Pick for Vice President
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/16/meet-sen-j-d-vance-trumps-anti-establishment-pick-vice-president/
I wasn’t able to read Hillbilly Elegy, I found it too tedious and boring.
However I might attempt to sit through the movie.
I found this on YouTube, and am hoping it literally is Hillbilly Elegy.
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Hillbilly Elegy
Watch “Film Semi full Nice(1)” on YouTube
EeeeeK!!!!!!
Went to watch this, but it was click bait. It’s some foreign film, it’s NOT Hillbilly Elegy
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SORRY
Is this guy a muslim or is he doing the pretend thing
If you are referrring to the picture it is what the bride and groom wear on their wedding day in Indian weddings. Hindu is not Islam.
I think it’s great that people are discussing all these contrary and contradictory notions.
It reminds me of when Bannon told Megan Kelly, “I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN.”
“I am a nationalist populist!!!!!!!”
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That’s where America is headed and it will be a YUGE umbrella
After 9/11, I distinctly remember how many Sikhs and Hindus worried that they were viewed as Muslims by many Christians who could only see unusual head wear and assumed, incorrectly, that the wearers were Muslim. A local Hindu temple in a Detroit suburb immediately put a huge “We Love America” sign in front of its building.
seems to be quite a few Paula white (christians) on here.