Van Jones Cites Trump Mocking Paul Pelosi’s Attack as One of the Reasons People Don’t Take Him Seriously When He Calls for Toning Rhetoric Down

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JONES: "I was just about to talk about that. You know, for us, you know, there‘s no more beloved person in our party than Nancy Pelosi. She could have been murdered. Her husband was almost murdered. And the president made jokes about it. And so these are — that‘s why it doesn‘t land. That‘s why I don‘t think people take it seriously when he says, you know, knock it off. Now, again, I do think it matters. I do think that tone matters. I do think that our words matter and I think we have to take them very seriously. But we‘ve had political violence also, you know, we had, you know, two of our state legislators killed very recently, Democratic state legislators killed, I think, in Minnesota. You know, so there‘s a body count on both sides."