CNN commentator Van Jones lost it on Monday following Donald Trump‘s announcement that Ohio Senator J.D. Vance will serve as his running mate.
Jones described Vance’s ideology as a “dangerous virus” that risks infecting America.
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“Trump…is an instinctive, impulsive, intuitive nationalist. JD Vance is an ideological nationalism,” he said.
“That’s a much more dangerous virus because he can polish this stuff and make it seem palatable to people. He can sell this stuff to Silicon Valley.”
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“He can sell this stuff other places. And what it does is it locks the Republican Party on a pathway that I think is dangerous for the world. Again, the Ukrainians are now in deep trouble.”
“NATO is now in deep trouble. Trump is he could have gone with it with a Nikki Haley and signal to the world.”
“Hey, listen, I gotta give stuff to my base, but I’m not going to abandon the world. This pic is a horror on the world stage,” Jones added.
“So JD Vance matters because I don’t. Trump is joining the Republican Party in a very scary direction for the long term.”
Jones also described Vance as as a “scary dude” who shows Trump is ready to go on the offensive.
“This is a scary dude. Scary dude, because, if you’re hoping that, after this near-death experience, we’re going to have a kumbaya convention.”
“This is not a kumbaya pick. And so, this would signal that Donald Trump is planning on doing a lot of hard governing,” he added.
“He’s got somebody in there who’s a pit bull. He’s an attack dog. He went to law school. He’s going to be in there making a whole bunch of stuff happen.”
