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Van Jones has risen to prominence in the past few years and now has his own show on CNN. Though he’s a left-leaning commentator, the 48-year-old former Obama staffer predicted Donald Trump’s victory when other pundits were calling for a Hillary Clinton blowout.
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On election night, Van Jones claimed the Trump victory equated to “whitelash,” and many were quick to criticize his statement.
Jones appeared on “Conan” Monday night and told the host that the “data dummies” can only talk about the “data and the numbers and the polls.” Meanwhile, Jones characterizes his life “as a focus group.”
Jones has been one of the leading voices calling for the president-elect to act more presidential. In December, he said on CNN that Trump “tweets like my children and he’s not spoken like a patriot yet.”
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Jones is a graduate of Yale Law School, though he does not practice law, and was a member of the Obama White House before accusations that he was an extremist were leveled upon him.
