Did Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, attend the same 2017 conference as White House Correspondents' Dinner suspect Cole Tomas Allen? No, that's not true: The communications office of the Office of the Second Lady at the White House told Lead Stories that it "can confirm that it was not her." There is also no evidence that the woman in a television story about the "Aging into the Future" conference is Usha Vance.
The claim appeared in a post and video (archived here) by the Alien Tea (@alien.tea7) account on April 26, 2026. It read:
They knew eachother?! 🤯 Suspect & Usha Vance starred in a video in 2017 together?! JD Vance, Uche Vance, Donald Trump Melania, Trump, White House correspondents dinner Cole Allen NASA #donaldtrump #trump #whitehousecorrespondentsdinner #coleallen #jdvance This video is all allegedly for entertainment purposes only no facts. This is just commentary questions opinions on trending topics and celebrities. None of what I say in this video is real.
This is what a screenshot of the video in the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post by @alien.tea7 on TikTok.)
Original video
The original video for this social media post comes from a KABC television story (archived here) published on March 13, 2017. At about the 26-second mark, the woman that the social media post claims is Usha Vance appears briefly. This is what a screenshot of the story looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of KABC story.)
Office of the Second Lady
Lead Stories contacted the communications office of the Office of the Second Lady and asked whether the woman in the video was her. The office said it "can confirm that it was not her."
Work history
Additionally, there is no evidence that Usha Vance ever presented at the 2017 "Aging into the Future" conference, which featured 14 tech start-ups. In 2015, she started working at a San Francisco law firm called Munger, Tolles & Olson. She then left to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during the 2017-18 term in Washington, D.C., which began in the fall of 2017. In 2019, she returned to the same law firm and worked there until 2024.
