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Van Jones
@vanjones· Nov 30, 2023

It means leadership doesn't get to lead much these days and there's a reason for that. Santos was sucking up a lot of oxygen. It wasn't the money that he stole, it was the time and attention he was stealing from all the other Republicans…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Nov 30, 2023

Well, I mean, it's a chance to pick up a seat, and the margin is so thin that it makes it, you know, it's a good thing. I will say that booting somebody out of Congress over being a weirdo, it's stealing money for OnlyFans and Botox, I…

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Nov 14, 2023

You cannot oversell or overstate how much you trust China because, look, they don't -- they don't believe it's in their best interest to do things like help the United States.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Nov 1, 2023

If you don't know that, you're not going to appoint -- you're not going to volunteer right, you're not going to donate right and the Democrats are going to be caught sleeping at the wheel.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Oct 24, 2023

This is a very dangerous moment for the country. Very soon, about a year, that guy is going to be presiding over the certification of the next presidential election here in a couple months. You have not just an election denier, but someone…

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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity· Sep 20, 2023

Every American should be angry, you should be outraged, you should be worried, you should be concerned at what has happened in the election.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 23, 2023

This is a stable system working appropriately, when people in office abuse their power and other branches stand up and say there are lines that should not be crossed.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 14, 2023

You cannot conspire to overthrow an election in the United States and get away with it.

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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity· Aug 12, 2023

I believe in the sanctity of life. But I think politically that there is -- Republicans have got to say, as Bill Clinton once said -- I never thought I'd quote him -- 'Rare, legal,' and I'd add the word 'very early' in a pregnancy.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Aug 7, 2023

Well, the Republicans should be concerned about the fact that today, he looks like he is the odds on favorite for the Republican nomination and there is a real chance, if you look at the way the calendar is laid out that he could become…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 2, 2023

You won't be able to show a Democratic president sitting in the Oval Office trying to hold on to power in the way that Donald Trump did.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 2, 2023

There were progressives working to delegitimize Trump from the very beginning, it is true, and they were not prosecuted.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 28, 2023

If you care about this country, if you care about democracy, the Supreme Court is supposed to be playing a role that respects precedent, that has some relationship to what's actually happening and that is not happening here.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 28, 2023

The Supreme Court seems like it is living on a different planet from the communities that I work in. These kids are doing all they can to try to figure out a way to get ahead and door after door gets closed on them, and the Supreme Court…

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jun 14, 2023

Well, it's going to be quite distracting. I mean, running for president is one of the most attention necessary items you can do in politics.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 13, 2023

Listen, anybody who gets the nomination of a major party has a real shot to become president.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 7, 2023

Kevin McCarthy never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to be a real leader. That was disgusting. He knows and anybody who's got an 11th grade understanding of civics knows that the President of the United States doesn't indict…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 7, 2023

Any other American that stole a bunch of federal documents and lied about it would also be going to court. There's no two-tiered thing happening, except that it took two years for it for him to get in trouble.

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