Van Jones, a CNN political analyst, stated on Sunday’s episode of State of the Union that the Democratic Party will likely face long-term consequences for hiding Joe Biden’s mental deterioration while he was serving as president.
“I was shocked. I love Joe Biden. I don’t like him, I love him. I got a chance to work with him. When I was a part of the Obama administration, I loved him more every day. I was shocked to see his condition when he came out, and so was the world. And that wasn’t the first time he was in that condition. The book makes it very, very clear there are people who knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against this republic. I think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive cover-up,” Jones said, voicing his deep dismay over the situation.
Host Jake Tapper posed the obvious follow-up question: “The big question is, what now? What now for Democrats? And over the past week, we’ve seen some potential 2028 candidates, Pete Buttigieg, Governor Whitmer, and Governor Pritzker, saying that they didn’t know that this was going on, that they didn’t know that there were any acute cognitive issues. So we’ve heard is I was busy working. I was too far away. I didn’t see it. What do you think democrats need to say?”
In response, Jones stressed the need for internal reckoning before launching into political damage control. “I think before you get out there trying to say stuff and persuade other people, you’ve got to look inside.”
He went on to urge the party to take accountability and reassess its direction. “We need to look in the mirror, reorganize ourselves, get bad people and bad ideas out of the way, and then we’ll be able to come forward in the midterms. But right now we need to we need to we need to apologize to the American people that we were a part of, something that wasn’t on the up and up.”
{Matzav.com}
