CNN’s Van Jones said he felt “sick” over the “gravity” of Donald Trump‘s indictment on charges the former president engaged in election interference leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Look, I, I — I feel kind of sick,” Jones said Tuesday evening after word of the 4-count indictment came down. “You know, I think, for all day I had almost this giddy feeling that, ‘Oh, he’s going to be indicted, he’s not going to be indicted.’ Then, when it actually happened — I remember sitting here with January 6th and watching the violence, watching what was going on and being shocked and appalled.
“And if you had told me it would take two-and-a-half years before we as a country said, ‘That’s not good, President Trump, that’s not good?’ I mean, if you ask a fifth-grade class, can you cheat, can you lie, can you defraud, can you use violence to get your way? A fifth-grade class would say, ‘You can’t.’ Well, the federal government just told Donald Trump, ‘You can’t do that.’ And, what I like about this indictment is, it’s just that simple. ‘You are a fraudster, sir, and you can’t do that. You lied, you can’t do that. You tried to cheat, you can&
Trump was charged with three counts of conspiracy and one count of obstruction. His spokesperson released a statement comparing the indictment to “Nazi Germany.”
The indictment read, “Each of these conspiracies — which built on the widespread mistrust the defendant was creating through pervasive and destabilizing lies about election fraud — targeted a bedrock function of the United States federal government: the nation’s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election.”
The indictment mentioned six co-conspirators but did not say who they were.
Watch the clip above via CNN.