JD Vance’s Senate Office Fires Key Adviser Who Posted About Drug Use on Reddit

“Those posts were written in good humor and didn't hurt anybody,” says Aaron Kofsky, who advised Vance on crypto and banking policy, of posts in which he wrote about using cocaine, kratom, and other drugs.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s office has fired key financial policy adviser Aaron Kofsky. A recent WIRED investigation found that Kofsky had posted extensively on Reddit over a period of years about using a variety of drugs, including cocaine and opiates, and called Vance a “Trump boot licker.”

WIRED had been preparing a story about the news and had asked Kofsky to comment by Monday morning. Shortly before the deadline he’d been given, he forwarded Politico’s Morning Money newsletter, which reported that he’d left Vance’s office. It was “an honor to serve Senator Vance and the people of Ohio over the past two years,” he told Politico, and ...