 I watch J.D. go into sort of, let's call it enemy territory from a media perspective, go on the most liberal TV shows and prosecute the case for my father and against the Democrat lunacy that we've seen. Trump Jr. added that Vance's life story growing up in poverty in the Rust Belt and making it to Yale Law School resonates with a lot of Americans. Vance, a never-Trumper in 2016, wrote the bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir of his experiences growing up in poverty, which was produced into a movie by Ron Howard.