Issue with CACERTS IntelliJ + Gradle

After contacting JetBrains support with my issue, I was made aware of the problem. Logically I was under the assumption that the JRE would execute the JAR file, this is ONLY the case when running java -jar my.jar or executing Gradle from CLI. The way IntelliJ works is that it solely uses the JDK, so I had to modify the small JRE that was within the JDK. Once I did that and added it to the CACERTS found within my jdk.xxx/jre/lib/security/cacerts, I was able to resolve this issue.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-195428