Van Jones Shares DMs With Charlie Kirk From Day Before Killing: 'Turn Down the Heat, Seek Common Ground'

CNN analyst Van Jones says received a DM from Charlie Kirk one day before the conservative activist and influencer was shot and killed – and the day after they were feuding on social media. Jones published the message from Kirk alongside a caution against violence. He explained Kirk's message, sent on X on September 9, came after the pair "had been sparring publicly over the killing of a Ukrainian refugee and its relationship to race." Kirk had commented that "the gruesome killing of a White woman by a Black man was motivated solely by anti-White hatred," something Jones . . .