{"id":598888,"date":"2021-07-21T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598888"},"modified":"2021-07-21T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:21:38","slug":"spread-the-wealth-jeff-bezos-gives-cnn-host-van-jones-100-million-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spread-the-wealth-jeff-bezos-gives-cnn-host-van-jones-100-million-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spread The Wealth\u2019: Jeff Bezos Gives CNN Host Van Jones $100 Million For Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspread-the-wealth-jeff-bezos-gives-cnn-host-van-jones-100-million-for-charity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598888&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1329734278-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Jeff Bezos gave CNN commentator Anthony \u201cVan\u201d Jones and celebrity chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s $100 million each for the charities of their choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the moments after his successful Blue Origin rocket <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/billionaire-bezos-blasts-into-space-soars-to-66-5-miles-high-lands-safely-back-on-earth\"><span>launch<\/span><\/a><span> on Tuesday, Bezos \u2014 who is presently worth nearly $204 billion \u2014 revealed the creation of a new charity initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/jeff-bezos-giving-100-million-jose-andres-van-jones-after-blue-origin-rocket-flight\"><span>Fox Business<\/span><\/a><span> reports:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p><i><span>In a surprise at the end of a media conference following his successful trip to sub-orbital space, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder unveiled his new \u201cCourage and Civility Award,\u201d which he said \u201crecognizes leaders who aim high and who pursue solutions with courage and who always do so with civility.\u201d Recipients receive $100 million to give away to charities or non-profits of their choice, and Bezos said awardees may direct all the funds to their own non-profits or \u201cspread the wealth\u201d to other organizations.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>At his announcement, Bezos called Jones on stage, honoring the criminal justice reform advocate and Dream Corps founder as the first awardee.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cSometimes dreams come true,\u201d Jones said as he addressed the crowd in an emotional acceptance speech. He added, \u201cIf this small group of people can make miracles happen in outer space, a bigger group of people can make miracles happen down here, and we\u2019re going to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Despite Bezos\u2019 assertion that Van Jones pursues solutions with civility, the commentator famously alleged that Donald Trump\u2019s electoral win in 2016 was a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/van-jones-trump-win-whitelash-against-black-robert-kraychik?amp\"><span>whitelash<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d against a \u201cchanging country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p><i><span>People have talked about a miracle. I\u2019m hearing about a nightmare. It\u2019s hard to be a parent tonight for a lot of us. You tell your kids, \u2018Don\u2019t be a bully.\u2019 You tell your kids, \u2018Don\u2019t be a bigot.\u2019 You tell your kids, \u2018Do your homework, and be prepared.\u2019 And then you have this outcome and you have people putting children to bed tonight, and they\u2019re afraid of breakfast. They\u2019re afraid of, \u2018How do I explain this to my children?\u2019 I have Muslim friends who are texting me tonight, saying, \u2018Should I leave the country?\u2019 I have families of immigrants that are terrified tonight.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We\u2019ve talked about everything but race tonight. We\u2019ve talked about income, we\u2019ve talked about class, we\u2019ve talked about region. We haven\u2019t talked about race. This was a whitelash. This was a whitelash against a changing country. This was a whitelash against a black president, in part. And that\u2019s the part where the pain comes.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Bezos routinely draws the ire of progressives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In May 2021, the \u201cPatriotic Millionaires\u201d \u2014 a coalition of Americans with incomes over $1 million or assets over $5 million \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/millionaires-who-support-raising-taxes-on-the-rich-protest-in-front-of-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-home\"><span>protested<\/span><\/a><span> in front of Bezos\u2019 homes in New York and Washington. Reflecting Suozzi\u2019s \u201cPatriot Tax\u201d proposal, the group argues that wealthy Americans have a duty to give more of their incomes to the federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTax the rich. Save America. Yes, it really is that simple,\u201d reads their billboard targeting Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos gave CNN commentator Anthony \u201cVan\u201d Jones and celebrity chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s $100 million each for the charities of their choice.In the moments after his successful Blue Origin rocket &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}