Friday, March 1, 2019

Van Jones Praises Trump Policies on Poverty and Legal System

CNN personality and former Obama administration official Van Jones praised conservatives and specifically President Donald Trump on Thursday for the work being done on criminal justice reform and to help the poor.

"I have to say something against my own interest here. Here's the deal, the conservative movement in this country, unfortunately from my point of view, is now the leader on this issue of reform," Jones said during a panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington, D.C. "My problem is, I now have a conservative movement that for libertarian reasons, Christian conservative reasons, for fiscally conservative reasons is actually doing a great job on what should be my issue," the well-known liberal activist added.

Jones appeared at CPAC beside Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the annual event.

Jones contended during the panel that neither Republicans nor Democrats have done enough to address the issues of poverty, addiction and criminal justice reform, yet gave Trump credit for taking action in all these areas.

Do you think Jones should be commended for giving Trump credit?

"I have to say this, Trump on poverty did opportunity zones, on addiction did opioid package, and on criminal justice did First Step, and I'm here to say on those three issues, I will work with or against any Republican or any Democrat to help the people that need their party's help for way too long. That's why I'm here," Jones said, drawing applause from the CPAC audience.

Jones pointed out Republican governors of Mississippi, Ohio, Georgia and South Carolina attained the same results instituting criminal justice reform.

https://www.westernjournal.com/cnn-host-obama-alum-van-jones-praises-trump-policies-poverty-legal-system/

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