CNN contributor Van Jones told Democrats the President Trump impeachment issue was a no-win situation.
“It’s a tricky thing, the impeachment process, because for some Republicans, it makes them want to rally around the flag,” Jones said Thursday on CNN.
“When I was anti-Bill Clinton from the Left in the ’90s, and then they tried to impeach him, suddenly Clinton was my best friend. I was like, ‘Leave Bill Clinton alone.’ So, I think you get crosscurrents in this thing, and at the same time, the Democrats are in a lose-lose situation,” he said.
Jones, 51, also warned that Democrats risked disappointing their base if they did not pursue impeaching Trump.
“If they don’t do something, their own base is going to feel disappointed and feel like maybe Trump gets away too much,” he said. Jones concluded that the whole issue was “a big mess.”
The CNN contributor was a special adviser to President Obama. In March, Jones told Democrats they should not pretend the Mueller investigation was a magic wand “that’s going to fix everything.”
