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jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 Profile picture
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Oct 23 • 39 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
Holy Hell. JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, told the Napa Institute in 2021 that Dominic Legge was the first priest w/ whom he discussed converting. This matters bc Legge sits on the board of the Napa Legal Institute where Leonard Leo is a director! 1/ #LeoPuppet
2/ Here’s a link to the full video. Image
3/ This is the Napa Legal Institute’s tax form for 2022. I don’t believe 2023 has been posted. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…Image
4/ Here is the Napa Legal Institute’s tax form from 2019, the year that Dominic Legge joined the board. “Coincidentally,” JD Vance converted to Catholicism that same year. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…Image
5/ h/t @sf_mills 👇
@sf_mills 6/ napalegalinstitute.org/who-we-areImage
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@sf_mills 7/ The Napa Institute (Napa Legal’s sister organization) receives funding from Leonard Leo who is close friends with Clarence Thomas.
8/ Note that JD Vance spoke at the Napa Institute while campaigning for the US senate in 2021. He wasn’t even elected yet! During that discussion, he mentioned that he had had “a couple of very, very in depth conversations with Justice [Clarence] Thomas.” WTF?!
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12/ Both the Napa Institute and Napa Legal are led by Tim Busch, a close ally of Leonard Leo. In this clip, Busch says that he refers to SCOTUS the “Leo Court.” ICYMI, these people are all fundamentalist Catholics.
13/ Meet Napa Institute co-founder Father Spitzer.
14/ It was Napa Institute co-founder Father Spitzer who introduced JD Vance during their 2021 conference. Listen. He can hardly contain his excitement. JD is their guy. The audience cheers.
15/ Back to Napa Institute co-founder Tim Busch.
16/ Back to Leonard Leo.
17/ Related article.
18/ JD Vance’s involvement with Teneo is another connection to Leonard Leo.
19/ “Leo is a donor to Busch’s Napa Institute.” ncronline.org/news/leonard-l…Image
20/ JD Vance also told the Napa Institute that, “I’m a very pro life person. I’ve been pro life since I was 14 years old,” & “anybody who’s looked at the American Christian conservative movement wld give a lot of credit to the Catholic Church for pushing the movement in a more pro life direction, especially in the 1970s.”
21/ Meanwhile, Father Dominic Legge from post 1 is the director of the Thomistic Institute, which received a $25k donation in 2019 from the Napa Institute Support Foundation (Tim Busch & Leonard Leo). projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…Image
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22/ And another $10,000 in 2020. (Note that Notre Dame has also received donations from the Napa Institute Support Foundation - Tim Busch and Leonard Leo). projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…
23/ The Thomistic Institute received another $25,000 in 2022. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/org…
24/ What a find. Here’s a photo of Leonard Leo with Tim Busch and Father Legge (among others). As shown in post 1, JD Vance says that Legge was the first priest with whom he discussed converting to Catholicism. Image
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25/ h/t @DawnofMercy Thread!
@DawnofMercy 26/ Leonard Leo also sits on the board of the Catholic Information Center, which bestowed an award on the Thomistic Institute earlier this month! cicdc.org/jp2award/Image
@DawnofMercy 27/ cicdc.org/faqs/Image
@DawnofMercy 28/ It was Rod Dreher who put JD Vance in touch with Dominic Legge, the priest who sits on the board of Napa Legal with Leonard Leo and Tim Busch.
@DawnofMercy 29/
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31/ JD Vance was baptized by Henry Stephan, a Dominican priest who had previously interned for Ninth Circuit Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain. It was reportedly Dominic Legge—a former O’Scannlain clerk—who had connected Vance with Stephan.
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@DawnofMercy 32/ Father Henry Stephan is now studying—and reportedly teaching and working as a chaplain—at Notre Dame University, which has received multiple donations from the Napa Institute Support Foundation (Tim Busch & Leonard Leo). irishrover.net/2023/03/whos-w…Image
@DawnofMercy 33/ ncregister.com/news/showdown-…Image
@DawnofMercy 34/
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@DawnofMercy 38/ Rod Dreher now lives in Hungary where he works for the Danube Institute, which has a cooperation agreement with the Heritage Foundation, lead organizer of Project 2025. hungarianconservative.com/articles/curre…Image
@DawnofMercy 39/

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