Former Obama adviser Van Jones stated throughout a latest interview that President-elect Donald Trump was smarter than himself and all of his critics.
“Guys, can we lower it out? Donald Trump just isn’t an fool. Let me simply be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all of his critics. You know the way I do know? As a result of he has the White Home, the Senate, the Home, the Supreme Court docket, the favored vote,” Jones stated.
Jones was requested by former CNN reporter Chris Cilizza throughout an interview on his YouTube channel about Trump’s profitable presidential marketing campaign.Â
“He has a large media ecosystem greater than the mainstream constructed round him, and for him, and a spiritual fervor in a political motion round him. And his finest buddy is the richest particular person within the historical past of the world, and probably the most related Kennedy is with him,” Jones added.
Van Jones, CEO of Reform Alliance, a newly fashioned group to reform the U.S. felony justice system, speaks through the Reform Alliance launch occasion in New York Metropolis, New York., U.S., January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar – RC1AD68F87D0 (REUTERS/Mike Segar)
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Jones stated Trump was probably the most highly effective particular person of our lifetimes and argued the Democratic Get together appeared like idiots.
The ex-Obama adviser, who can also be a CNN commentator, has spoken out repeatedly concerning the election loss for Democrats in latest weeks.
“There’s a reckoning contained in the Democratic Get together,” Jones stated on the New York Occasions Dealbook Summit this month. “Kamala Harris promised us freedom… nicely, she delivered it to us, as a result of now we’re free from having to run something in Washington, D.C. That is not what we have been signing up for, it is what we bought.”
He then listed a sequence of high-profile figures who’ve been so alienated by Democratic Get together politics that they’ve allied themselves with the MAGA motion.
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“RFK was a insurgent within our celebration, he wished to run in opposition to Joe Biden truthful and sq., the DNC would not let him, pushed him out. You possibly can stroll down the record. Remember Elon Musk was an Andrew Yang Democrat 4 years in the past, he is out,” Jones stated. “You possibly can stroll down the record. Joe Rogan was very favorable towards Michelle Obama, he was a Bernie man, he is out. So there’s one thing that is occurred on this celebration the place the rebels on this celebration not really feel like they’ve a spot, and we have to have the ability to discuss that stuff truthfully.”
Jones additionally in the end positioned some blame on Biden.
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“I really like Joe Biden. Joe Biden picked me out of the pet pile and gave me an opportunity to work with you guys, I really like him, he ought to have walked away and let different individuals on this celebration step as much as the bat, he didn’t, and we paid the value,” he stated.
Fox Information Alexander Corridor contributed to this report.
