After previously claiming he’d “absolutely vote for Trump,” Jones won’t tell Sacramento County voters where he stands
After telling the Sacramento Bee that he would “absolutely vote for Trump,” today Sheriff Scott Jones refused to condemn the GOP nominee over his recent attack on a Gold Star Family.
Instead of clearly and unequivocally dropping his earlier support for Trump, Jones now claims that he’ll tell Sacramento County voters who he supports after Election Day, leaving voters wondering if he’d ever stand up to Trump and his reckless agenda.
Jones today on KFBK:
HOST: So does that mean when you go to vote on Nov. 8 that you’ll leave the box for President unchecked, completely?
JONES [2:37]: I don’t know what I am going to do to be honest with you, I don’t know. But I will tell you this, whatever I will do, or what my latest feeling is, or what I will have done after the election, I’ll be completely honest about it, because that’s the way I’ve conducted myself my entirety of my career.
And as the Los Angeles Times reported today, local Sacramento County Veterans are concerned about Jones’ support for Trump.
… Jones has faced nettlesome questions about Trump since May when he first said he would vote for the New York billionaire. In a district that leans a hair to the left, the sheriff has tried hard to keep Trump at arm’s length, insisting that his vote is not an endorsement while criticizing Trump’s “hate speech.”
… Bill Hitchcock, a 20-year Air Force veteran and member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Elk Grove, said Jones and anyone else supporting Trump were displaying a lack of good judgement.
…“Every time Trump speaks, he shoves his foot deeper inside his mouth,” said Hitchcock, 83, a former weapons system engineer who served two tours in Vietnam. “From a military aspect, we’re all leery of him.”