JD Vance isn't necessarily out here to make friends, he's trying to do the best job that he can as a businessman and a politician.

Vance's policy is to turn a profit and help American communities, but some people are saying that he's leaned so far into being successful with his business ventures that his employees are not being treated like they should.

JD Vance said that he invested in AppHarvest because he was trying to invest in the future of farmers and workers in Kentucky. JD Vance was an early investor, board member, and public pitchman for the agriculture company.

Four years later, AppHarvest is bankrupt.

If Vance ever saw it coming, he sure never admitted it publicly.

"It’s not just a good investment opportunity, it’s a great business that’s making a big difference in the world," Vance announced the day the company went public in February 2021.

Somewhere between then and now, AppHarvest fell millions and millions and millions and millions in debt.

JD Vance obviously had a huge role in AppHarvest, and may very well have been one of the people responsible for the company not succeeding. That did not, however, stop Donald Trump from naming JD Vance his VP candidate for the 2024 Election.

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Despite Vance being at the top of AppHarvest as the company crashed and burned, Donald Trump saw leadership potential in the man from Ohio. After all, it's often not how you respond to successes that determine how successful a politician can be, it's how you respond to failure.

Sure, AppHarvest probably didn't go the way that JD Vance wanted it too, but as long as he learns from his mistakes and grows from the experience, that's all you can ask for.

The allegations that Vance might have more trouble shaking are the allegations of terrible working conditions at AppHarvest.

Vance claims to be a huge champion for working people in America, and it's not going to help his case if it comes out that he hasn't been treating workers how they should be.

These are the people who are supposed to make up a bulk of Trump and Vance's base, so let's hope these allegations don't hurt Vance too much.

According to CNN, "AppHarvest not only failed as a business after pursuing rapid growth, but also provided a grim job experience for many of the working-class Kentuckians Vance has vowed to help."

"AppHarvest employees said they were forced to work in grueling conditions inside the company’s greenhouse, where temperatures often soared into the triple digits," CNN continued. "Complaints filed with the US Department of Labor and a Kentucky regulator between 2020 and 2023 show that workers alleged they were given insufficient water breaks and weren’t provided adequate safety gear. Some workers said they suffered heat exhaustion or injuries, though state inspectors did not find violations."