Van Jones: Trump ‘Willing' to Have Americans Die 'to Get His Way’

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 15, 2017
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On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that made it easier for small and medium-size businesses to band together in order to buy health insurance as a group and get a better rate. The Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) found that idea abhorrent and smeared it as a threat to Obama’s legacy. The hyperbole continued during ABC’s This Week on Sunday were CNN’s Van Jones claimed Trump had no regard for the wellbeing of Americans.

Listen, I've never seen a president of the United States willing to hurt Americans to get his way,” Jones lamented to Clinton lackey and ABC host George Stephanopoulos. “Willing to have Americans be sick. Willing to have Americans, you know, possibly lose their lives-- watch their children with conditions, because he wants to get his way.

In addressing American Conservative Union Chair Matt Schlapp, the lone conservative on the stacked liberal panel, Jones said: “I agree with you that our health care system needs to continue to be improved and changed. I support the Progressive cause. I'm willing to listen to actual conservative ideas. But I'm not willing--

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