Van Jones Says Charlie Kirk’s Final Goodwill Gesture Left Him Stunnedhttps://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2025/09/21/cnns-van-jones-reveals-that-charlie-kirks-last-goodwill-gesture-stunned-him-n4943947... CNN contributor and certified leftist Van Jones revealed that, just before his death, Charlie had reached out to him in a major goodwill gesture.
Jones detailed Charlie’s attempts to seek constructive dialogue in an interview with Anderson Cooper and in a post on X:
Jones, who seemed genuinely surprised and touched by this sincere attempt at connecting, showed proper respect and appreciation for the real Charlie Kirk ... .
Jones told Cooper, “We were beefing. We were going at it online, on air, and then after he died, after he was murdered, my team called and said, ‘Van, he was trying to reach you man’…And what was he doing? Dialogue: ‘let’s be gentleman together.’ He says, ‘Let’s disagree agreeably.’”
Jones went on to counter the entire fabricated leftist narrative about Charlie: “This guy is reaching out to his mortal enemy, saying ‘We need to be gentlemen (and) sit down together and disagree agreeably.’ And the next day he’s killed. And I’ve sat on it long enough, and I said, ‘You know what, we’re going (into) memorial weekend for this man. We disagree. Everybody knows we were not friends, okay, at all. But you praise the good when it’s time to memorialize somebody…'
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Jones wasn’t finished. Cooper tried to interrupt and move onto the next question, but Jones had a few words for those who would use Charlie’s death for their own purposes: “I think what happens is people get so worked up, Anderson, seeing us go at it they think they’re supposed to go out and kill somebody, or go out and talk about civil war, or go out and silence people, or cancel people, or fire people, or censor people about Charlie Kirk?”
Jones reinforced that he didn’t agree with Charlie on almost anything, but reminded the CNN audience that both he and Charlie were “words not weapons guys.”
Full kudos to Jones for his honesty in this. He could have stayed Prog-safe by saying nothing. The chances that he will catch Hell for this on DU and in similar contexts are approximately certainty. Underlying that, it appears that he actually expended some effort to learn what Kirk actually believed and advocated instead of swallowing whole Progs' buffet of lies. He also pointed out that Kirk's "thing" was dialog rather than advocating violent action.
