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If onfirmed, would further cement Bush-Cheney sunk GOP's transformation as a liberal progressiev socialist player in US politics.
In any case, if this is really factual, why the secrecy? GOP-Adelson had promised transparency at the same time it had promised lot of winning to the base few years ago.
Not too lomg ago, this is how 'marxist' Van Jones was portrayed by pro Right groups:
caution: controversial content
https://twitter.com/Correction2016/status/899288350091333632
Van Jones Reportedly Secretly Helped Create Trump’s Police Reform Order
The ex-Obama aide’s willingness to help Trump—whom he once dubbed among the “worst people ever born”—has drawn the ire of liberal allies while gaining him fans in Jared and Kimye.
Jun. 29, 2020
CNN star Van Jones has a habit of upsetting his fellow Black activists, progressive policy advocates, and liberal Democrats by cozying up to the Trump White House.
He did it again late last month, during the flap over a Black bird watcher in Central Park and a white Hillary Clinton voter who dialed 911 after refusing his pleas to leash her dog. Jones enraged Hillary loyalists—already exasperated by his willingness to concede her flaws as a 2016 presidential candidate in televised food nights with Trump acolyte Kayleigh McEnany—when he compared Clinton supporters unfavorably to the Klan.
“It’s not the racist white person who’s in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about,” Jones said on CNN’s New Day. “It’s the white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park… But the minute she sees a Black man, who she does not respect, or has a slight thought against, she weaponized race like she had been trained by the Aryan Nation.”
More recently, on June 16, the 51-year-old Jones—a Yale Law School-trained attorney and former green energy jobs adviser in the Obama administration—provoked even more liberal distress and anger when he ladled praise on a so-called police reform initiative by President Donald Trump.
In this instance, however, he was slyly applauding himself.
Jones went on CNN’s Inside Politics with John King and Anderson Cooper 360 to enthusiastically commend Trump’s executive order—even as it was being criticized as cynical and unproductive by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and “delusional” by the Color of Change, an influential racial justice organization that Jones himself co-founded in 2005.
CNN viewers weren’t informed that he had actually participated in secret discussions with his new friend Jared Kushner on ways to frame the presidential project.
In a tough situation Van has shown me that he’s got true character. He’s focused on the right things.
— Jared Kushner to The Daily Beast
thedailybeast.com/cnns-van-jones-secretly-helped-craft-the-weak-trump-police-reform-he-praised-on-tv
Relational
Van Jones defends Antifa
September 15, 2017
Jones: I got a chance to talk to some of the people who were there including some who are quite well known people, and they said that had it not been for the anti-Fascist counter protestors more people might have been killed. I think that Antifa has a very bad PR problem now. I don’t know, they should just call themselves “Anti-Fascist”, everybody in the world is Anti-Fascist.
How Could Obama Have Hired Van Jones?
Around midnight on the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend, the White House announced Van Jones had resigned as President Obama's "green jobs czar."
"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Mr. Jones said in his resignation letter. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."
The "lies and distortions" consisted of reporting Mr. Jones' arrest during a riot, and quoting, accurately, from statements Mr. Jones had made and from petitions he had signed.
Mr. Jones was arrested during the rioting in Los Angeles in 1992 that followed the acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King. Mr. Jones spoke of that experience in a 2005 interview with a newspaper in the San Francisco Bay area:
"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28, and then the verdicts came down on April 29," he told the East Bay Express. "By August, I was a communist."
Mr. Jones attributed his conversion to the people he met during his incarceration:
"I met all these radical young people of color, I mean really radical, communists and anarchists," he told the East Bay Express. "It was like 'this is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."
Mr. Jones was arrested again in 1999 during the anti-free trade riots in Seattle.
In 1994, Mr. Jones was one of the founders of STORM, a Marxist-Leninist group whose hero was Chinese Communist dictator Mao Tse Tung.
But what did Mr. Jones in was the revelation that in 2004 he had signed a petition calling on then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to investigate whether the Bush administration had been behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...w_could_obama_have_hired_van_jones_98293.html
Obama adviser forced to resign over remark about Republicans
• Rightwing campaign after 'assholes' comment
• Activist also queried what Bush knew about 9/11
'Opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me' - Van Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/06/van-jones-resigns-republicans
In any case, if this is really factual, why the secrecy? GOP-Adelson had promised transparency at the same time it had promised lot of winning to the base few years ago.
Not too lomg ago, this is how 'marxist' Van Jones was portrayed by pro Right groups:
caution: controversial content
https://twitter.com/Correction2016/status/899288350091333632
Van Jones Reportedly Secretly Helped Create Trump’s Police Reform Order
The ex-Obama aide’s willingness to help Trump—whom he once dubbed among the “worst people ever born”—has drawn the ire of liberal allies while gaining him fans in Jared and Kimye.
Jun. 29, 2020
CNN star Van Jones has a habit of upsetting his fellow Black activists, progressive policy advocates, and liberal Democrats by cozying up to the Trump White House.
He did it again late last month, during the flap over a Black bird watcher in Central Park and a white Hillary Clinton voter who dialed 911 after refusing his pleas to leash her dog. Jones enraged Hillary loyalists—already exasperated by his willingness to concede her flaws as a 2016 presidential candidate in televised food nights with Trump acolyte Kayleigh McEnany—when he compared Clinton supporters unfavorably to the Klan.
“It’s not the racist white person who’s in the Ku Klux Klan that we have to worry about,” Jones said on CNN’s New Day. “It’s the white liberal Hillary Clinton supporter walking her dog in Central Park… But the minute she sees a Black man, who she does not respect, or has a slight thought against, she weaponized race like she had been trained by the Aryan Nation.”
More recently, on June 16, the 51-year-old Jones—a Yale Law School-trained attorney and former green energy jobs adviser in the Obama administration—provoked even more liberal distress and anger when he ladled praise on a so-called police reform initiative by President Donald Trump.
In this instance, however, he was slyly applauding himself.
Jones went on CNN’s Inside Politics with John King and Anderson Cooper 360 to enthusiastically commend Trump’s executive order—even as it was being criticized as cynical and unproductive by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and “delusional” by the Color of Change, an influential racial justice organization that Jones himself co-founded in 2005.
CNN viewers weren’t informed that he had actually participated in secret discussions with his new friend Jared Kushner on ways to frame the presidential project.
In a tough situation Van has shown me that he’s got true character. He’s focused on the right things.
— Jared Kushner to The Daily Beast
thedailybeast.com/cnns-van-jones-secretly-helped-craft-the-weak-trump-police-reform-he-praised-on-tv
Relational
Van Jones defends Antifa
September 15, 2017
Jones: I got a chance to talk to some of the people who were there including some who are quite well known people, and they said that had it not been for the anti-Fascist counter protestors more people might have been killed. I think that Antifa has a very bad PR problem now. I don’t know, they should just call themselves “Anti-Fascist”, everybody in the world is Anti-Fascist.
How Could Obama Have Hired Van Jones?
Around midnight on the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend, the White House announced Van Jones had resigned as President Obama's "green jobs czar."
"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Mr. Jones said in his resignation letter. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."
The "lies and distortions" consisted of reporting Mr. Jones' arrest during a riot, and quoting, accurately, from statements Mr. Jones had made and from petitions he had signed.
Mr. Jones was arrested during the rioting in Los Angeles in 1992 that followed the acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King. Mr. Jones spoke of that experience in a 2005 interview with a newspaper in the San Francisco Bay area:
"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28, and then the verdicts came down on April 29," he told the East Bay Express. "By August, I was a communist."
Mr. Jones attributed his conversion to the people he met during his incarceration:
"I met all these radical young people of color, I mean really radical, communists and anarchists," he told the East Bay Express. "It was like 'this is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."
Mr. Jones was arrested again in 1999 during the anti-free trade riots in Seattle.
In 1994, Mr. Jones was one of the founders of STORM, a Marxist-Leninist group whose hero was Chinese Communist dictator Mao Tse Tung.
But what did Mr. Jones in was the revelation that in 2004 he had signed a petition calling on then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to investigate whether the Bush administration had been behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...w_could_obama_have_hired_van_jones_98293.html
Obama adviser forced to resign over remark about Republicans
• Rightwing campaign after 'assholes' comment
• Activist also queried what Bush knew about 9/11
'Opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me' - Van Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/06/van-jones-resigns-republicans
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