Appearing as a panel member for Tuesday's election coverage on CNN, liberal commentator Van Jones went over the top again as he compared GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump to a "strongman" like former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
At about 8:10 p.m. ET, shortly before Marco Rubio announced that he was ending his campaign for President, Jones suggested that Rubio might stay in longer because Trump reminds him of the "strongman" who took control of his home country who "from his point of view, was violent, was irresponsible."
When it was his turn to speak, Jones began his prediction: "Everybody keeps saying, 'He's got to get out, he's got to get out.' I think if you're Rubio there's a personal reason that it's hard to get out that's not the obvious one."
The liberal CNN political commentator added:
His family fled Cuba because of a strongman who came to power and, from his point of view, was violent, was irresponsible, and I think he looks -- when you see Rubio saying, "I just don't know if I can get there emotionally," that's not just political calculation about "I'm gonna trick these people."
Jones then concluded: "I think he's saying, 'I don't know if I, knowing what strongmen do, what authoritarians do, if I can support this guy.' So I think you got to give him a moment to try to figure out what he's going to do going forward."
