{"id":271983,"date":"2019-04-26T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1035970"},"modified":"2019-04-26T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:08:25","slug":"van-jones-says-kim-kardashian-is-brilliant-and-eats-law-books-for-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/van-jones-says-kim-kardashian-is-brilliant-and-eats-law-books-for-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Jones Says Kim Kardashian Is &#8220;Brilliant&#8221; and &#8220;Eats Law Books for Breakfast&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201857\/rs_600x600-180607200458-600-van-jones-mv-6718.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.214616096207\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.083256244218\">\n<p>With her political activism, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kim_kardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;has won over CNN&#8217;s <strong>Van Jones<\/strong>, who calls her &#8220;brilliant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reality star&nbsp;recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1034305\/kim-kardashian-says-she-d-never-abuse-her-privilege-to-get-her-kids-into-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced that she&nbsp;is studying to become a lawyer<\/a>&nbsp;and has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/kardashians\/news\/1009597\/kim-kardashian-heads-to-california-capitol-for-criminal-justice-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continued to push for criminal justice reform<\/a>&nbsp;since she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/941864\/donald-trump-grants-alice-johnson-clemency-after-meeting-with-kim-kardashian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lobbied and met<\/a> with President <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/donald_trump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong> last year and helped convince him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/kardashians\/news\/993483\/try-not-to-cry-watching-kim-kardashian-tell-alice-johnson-she-s-been-freed-from-prison-after-21-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commute the life sentence<\/a> of&nbsp;<strong>Alice Johnson<\/strong>, who had been serving time in prison since 1996 for a&nbsp;first-time drug offense. <strong>Van Jones<\/strong>,&nbsp;a CNN political commentator, non-practicing attorney and former adviser to <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/944784\/kim-kardashian-to-run-for-president-never-say-never\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interviewed her soon<\/a> after that meeting and months later, they reunited at the&nbsp;White House&nbsp;to attend a&nbsp;listening session on clemency issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think like a lot of people, I had a misimpression, I still had her kinda like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1024291\/kim-kardashian-and-paris-hilton-reunite-at-heiress-38th-birthday-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">frozen in time<\/a> back in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/paris_hilton\">Paris Hilton<\/a><\/strong> days,&#8221; Jones said on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iv5I59L99fY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;on Thursday. &#8220;She&#8217;s brilliant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones added that he thinks Kardashian will make a good lawyer &#8220;because she&#8217;s incredibly persuasive and persistent and she eats law books for like, breakfast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>He also said he keep in touch with her, communicating a couple times a week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She cares a lot about criminal justice, she&#8217;s spent a lot of time going to visit women in prison,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think people thought it was some kind of publicity stunt a year ago.&nbsp;She&#8217;s the only celebrity I know- usually, I&#8217;m calling celebrities, asking them to help me on cases. She calls me, asking me to help her on cases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a new Kim,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.275523560209\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20.501308900524\">\n<p>Jones, a critic of Trump, also talked about seeing the president with Kardashian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was like watching a ballerina&nbsp;hypnotize a grizzly bear,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kardashian has often been criticized over her dealings with the Republican U.S. leader, who is deeply unpopular in&nbsp;her home state of California.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many people have would say to me, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1034372\/kim-kardashian-claps-back-at-criticism-over-working-with-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don&#8217;t go to the White House, your career will be over. Don&#8217;t go there<\/a>,&#8217; and I just kinda weighed the decision where it was like, to save a life, or to get maybe bad tweets about me or a bad news story for a few days,&#8221; she recently told Jones on CNN&#8217;s&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/20\/us\/kim-kardashian-van-jones-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Van Jones Show<\/a><\/em>. &#8220;I guarantee you the people sitting behind bars do not care who the president is. They just want that relief. And so if I could have done that, I don&#8217;t care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1035970\/van-jones-says-kim-kardashian-is-brilliant-and-eats-law-books-for-breakfast?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With her political activism, Kim Kardashian&nbsp;has won over CNN&#8217;s Van Jones, who calls her &#8220;brilliant.&#8221; The reality star&nbsp;recently&nbsp;announced that she&nbsp;is studying to become a lawyer&nbsp;and has&nbsp;continued to push for criminal justice reform&nbsp;since she lobbied and met with President Donald Trump last year and helped convince him to commute the life sentence of&nbsp;Alice Johnson, who had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 19:44:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}