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Van Jones Predicts ‘Horrendous Abuse of Power’ Under Trump
The Wrap ^ | January 15, 2017 | Sharon Waxman

Posted on 01/16/2017 7:24:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Less than a week before the inauguration, political commentator Van Jones predicted “a horrendous abuse of power” once Donald Trump takes office as president of the United states.

The CNN commentator spoke on Sunday night at the home of Netflix chief Ted Sarandos about the documentary “13th,” on a panel with filmmaker Ava DuVernay and media mogul Oprah Winfrey.

The film explores the abuses and racial inequities of the prison system, with the title referring to the 13th amendment abolishing slavery.

Asked by Winfrey what he expected of the new administration, Jones said, “I think mostly bad things. Both parties have a challenge. I think the president will prove to be authoritarian… You will see a horrendous abuse of power by this government. I think it’s good to hope for the best but we need to expect and prepare for the very worst.”

He added: “I think Trump is much worse than people understand… I think we’re on the verge of a kleptocracy.”

Jones has emerged as one of the leading voices calling out Trump’s contradictions and conflicts in the post-election media landscape. His comments on election night that the result was a “white-lash” caused a sensation.

The conversation among the three panelists took place before a private audience of several hundred influential Hollywood insiders, including producers, writers, actors and executives — from musician Quincy Jones to actress Frances Fisher to producer Sean Daniels.

The evening aimed to raise the documentary’s profile on Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, ahead of the coming Academy Award nominations. Many in the room were Oscar voters.

But the conversation turned mainly around the coming Trump administration, and how people who oppose him should respond. While Jones argued that it was important for the Democratic Party to understand and embrace the disaffected Trump voters suffering from economic stagnation and job loss, DuVernay said she was deeply pained by the idea that so many had voted for a candidate she considers racist, violent and homophobic.

“I don’t have a lot of empathy for someone who can raise their hand for violence,” she said. Trying to “understand” Trump voters is a distraction from her focus on her work, she said.

“The distraction of trying to educate and love this side is what will diminish me,” she said. “How am I going to stay centered ? What will I do? I need to stay focused on my goals. What I’m going to try to do to get through these four years is to get enlarged, and to do that will take all my focus.”

Winfrey mainly asked questions, but the tenor of the conversation made clear yet again that the Hollywood community is dreading the arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency. If Jones is correct, they have ample reason.


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KEYWORDS: blacks; boogedyboogedy; oprah; trump; trumptransition; vanjones
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Communists and their propaganda...the next 8 years are going to be glorious...


21 posted on 01/16/2017 7:39:02 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He added: “I think Trump is much worse than people understand… I think we’re on the verge of a kleptocracy.”

We already had one. It was the Clinton Foundation, but Van Jones didn't have a problem with the prospect of Hillary for president. Telling.

22 posted on 01/16/2017 7:39:33 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: dfwgator
Precisely.

This is alternative reality. Trump has been condemned very vocally and universally by the left and in the media not for things he has done, but for things they say he will do. (And what they would do if given the chance).

23 posted on 01/16/2017 7:40:12 AM PST by pfflier
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama's former "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones became a revolutionary communist following the 1992 L.A./Rodney King Riots (58 dead)

"Jones was arrested during the L.A. (Rodney King) riots and spent a short time in jail."

"in jail, he [Van Jones] said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist." ..."

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the-new-face-of-environmentalism/Content?oid=1079539&showFullText=true
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From Michelle Malkin's website:

"...Michelle and Barack's consigliere and Chicago powerbroker Valerie Jarrett took full credit at the nuttroots dKos blogger conference last month (August 15, 2009) for recruiting him and closely following his career:

JARRETT:. You guys know Van Jones? [Applause. Moderator injects: "This is his house apparently."]

JARRETT: Oooh. Van Jones, alright! So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he's not that old, for as long as he's been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/03/van-jones-valerie-jarrett-barack-obama-do-it-yourself-vetting/
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Van Jones was also once a member, if not a founder, of the group "STORM" (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement)

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Here's Van Jones, Obama's former "Green Jobs Czar", the guy he appointed to lead the so-called "Green Movement", stating that the "Green Movement" is just a stepping stone for a total communist transformation...

"...inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country.

And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages.

Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we're not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won't be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression all together. But, that's a process and I think that's what's great about the movement that is beginning to emerge is that the CRISIS is so severe in terms of joblessness, violence and now ecological threats that people are willing to be both pragmatic and visionary.

So the green economy will start off as a small subset and we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society.

SOURCE for this transcript:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100302013710/http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/2009/09/02/van-jones-obamas-green-czar-%E2%80%98green-jobs%E2%80%99-goal-is-%E2%80%98complete-revolution%E2%80%99-away-from-%E2%80%98gray-capitalism%E2%80%99/

24 posted on 01/16/2017 7:40:26 AM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We are a communist country according the Fake Media.


25 posted on 01/16/2017 7:41:30 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just setting the stage for their plan.

Every time Trump rolls back an Obama EO they’ll scream “Abuse of Power!”


26 posted on 01/16/2017 7:47:04 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Democrats hate too much

Doubtful the bigot Jones would ever complain about a fellow black Commie


27 posted on 01/16/2017 7:49:07 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jones is a racist.


28 posted on 01/16/2017 7:51:20 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So these idiots think Trump voters are the “violent” ones?

My gawd, these people are so sick in the head. Yeah, it was Trump voters in Ferguson, Baltimore, Baton Rouge . . . it was Trump voters in the days following the legitimate election.

It’s been Trump voters who are vowing to disrupt the Inauguration.

And the MSM? Silent. But let Trump legitimately call out “Icon” Johnny Boy Lewis for neglecting his constituents, and WHOA All hell breaks lose

What a crazy mixed up world folks


29 posted on 01/16/2017 7:53:02 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Liberals are boiling mad over the Trump victory. And in the anger, their lives are reduced by many years.

Good.

30 posted on 01/16/2017 7:53:15 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama dint do nuffin...


31 posted on 01/16/2017 7:56:42 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mr. “White-lash!” has spoken......

Who Care what this BOZO has to say?


32 posted on 01/16/2017 7:56:50 AM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

> I think the president will prove to be authoritarian… You will see a horrendous abuse of power by this government.

What if Trump limits himself to the precedents set by Obama? Would it still be an abuse of power?


33 posted on 01/16/2017 7:56:56 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: dfwgator
“He added: “I think Trump is much worse than people understand… I think we’re on the verge of a kleptocracy.””

Sure, Van... you did NOT mind when you were getting paid with corrupt dollars... you are just itching because Trump is NOT a kleptomaniac.

Kleptocracy
Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, is a term applied to a government seen as having a particularly severe and systemic problem with officials or a ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats) taking advantage of corruption to extend their personal wealth and political power.

34 posted on 01/16/2017 7:57:53 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He might use the IRS to punish his political enemies!

I think perhaps that these idiots who keep slandering (or is it libel if verbal) Trump voters as being the source of violence should be fair game for retribution.


35 posted on 01/16/2017 8:03:19 AM PST by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention. Chalk one up for creativity!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Even more horrendous that Obomba’s abuse of power?


36 posted on 01/16/2017 8:04:42 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>>He added: “I think Trump is much worse than people understand… I think we’re on the verge of a kleptocracy.”<<

These people keep showing their idiocy. Trump is richer than God. He doesn’t NEED any more money. The super rich use money for one thing: keeping score.

Trump is in a new game now, with a completely different scoring system. Money is NOT the currency of legacy.

Dumber. Than. Dirt.


37 posted on 01/16/2017 8:10:55 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo: not just the worst president in American history - worst *American* in American history (turf)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, says the former Czar Van Jones.


38 posted on 01/16/2017 8:13:14 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is Trump going to use his pen and phone?


39 posted on 01/16/2017 8:14:33 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey Van Jones you idiot, take a good look at this you want to talk about abusing power....


40 posted on 01/16/2017 8:17:32 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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