Report: Van Jones secretly helped the Trump administration on its "weak" police reform bill, then praised it on CNN

The Daily Beast

The CNN commentator "went on CNN’s Inside Politics with John King and Anderson Cooper 360 to enthusiastically commend Trump’s executive order—even as it was being criticized as cynical and unproductive by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and 'delusional' by the Color of Change, an influential racial justice organization that Jones himself co-founded in 2005," reports The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove. "CNN viewers weren’t informed that he had actually attended secret White House meetings with his new friend Jared Kushner, discussing ways to frame the presidential project." Jones declined comment, with CNN saying that “due to his contractual obligations with CNN/Turner, he’s limited in what press he can do outside of their network.”