 Now he'll move up to 90% of military vets voting for Trump. Third, J.D. is a poor kid from the Midwest, working class roots. He has a rare all-American story very similar to mine. That's how he caught my attention. I went from SOB, son of a butcher, on the Bronx borderline, to valedictorian and Columbia University grad. J.D. went from poor roots in Ohio and Pennsylvania to Yale law degree and editor of the Yale Law Review.