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'Screaming' judge rips the DOJ for defying order not to touch golf course

Trump DOJ caught using false claims in explosive court revelation

President Trump's Justice Department has admitted that a false allegation, involving former CNN anchor Don Lemon and another journalist, appeared in the federal court filings relating to its investigation of the anti-ICE protest.

The revelation comes as newly uncovered records show that federal investigators obtained warrants authorizing the use of sophisticated surveillance technology to track down Lemon's 21-year-old producer Jerome Richardson, even though Richardson was prepared to turn himself in.

According to Wired, the investigation followed a protest at a church in Minnesota that disrupted a service and drew national attention after Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort documented the incident.

Per the report, the federal authorities were looking to build a criminal case against people who were involved in the protest, including journalists who maintained they were there as journalists covering the event rather than as participants.

The contested allegation came in the affidavits in support of applications to track Richardson. The investigators claimed that the video showed Lemon, Fort, Richardson and others “chanting with agitators.”

But the prosecutors later admitted that Lemon and Fort had not been chanting.

As per Fort's lawyers, the government admitted that the false allegation appeared in at least 15 warrant affidavits.

The admission doesn't establish that the investigators knowingly submitted false information. It does, however, add another wrinkle to an investigation which has already been fraught with judicial pushback and disputes over the nature of the federal surveillance.

The warrants also show just how far the investigators were prepared to go in order to track down Richardson.

Federal judges in Minnesota and Pennsylvania have approved the use of cell site simulators, devices which mimic a cell tower to identify and locate a phone.

The tech can also harvest identifying information from devices of people in the vicinity who are not the subject of the investigation.

Investigators got the second warrant just two days before Richardson voluntarily turned himself in at a federal courthouse in Philadelphia.

Richardson had publicly stated that he expected to go into federal custody. He was released on bond that afternoon upon his surrender.

The records don't establish that the agents actually deployed the surveillance devices.

The investigation had already met with resistance from the courts.

A magistrate judge initially denied five of the eight arrest warrant applications. The government's request to have that decision overturned by the appeals court was also rejected, and the government has since withdrawn its request.

In the filing, the court's chief judge states that two of the people the government was targeting were journalists rather than protesters and finds no evidence of any criminal conduct on their part.

Prosecutors then secured a grand jury indictment.

The newly released records don't answer the question of why the investigators were seeking such intrusive surveillance or how the false allegation kept reappearing in the documents they submitted to federal judges.

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New Don Lemon court filing alleges federal officer lied to the judgeral officer lied to the judgehttps://www.alternet.org/don-lemon-ice/

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On Thursday, February 26, the Trump-era U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) case against journalist and former CNN host Don Lemon took on a Philadelphia element when Jerome Richardson — a Minnesota native now attending Philly's Temple University — was recognized by members of the Philadelphia City Council. Richardson is facing charges as part of the same DOJ case against Lemon, who was arrested after covering a protest inside an evangelical fundamentalist church in Minneapolis. And the case continued to evolve and expand on Friday, February 27, when Politico's Josh Gerstein reported on new defendants.

Late Friday morning, Gerstein — in a post on X — reported, "DEVELOPING: Superseding indictment returned in Don Lemon Minnesota church protest case. Local press says more defendants added and arrested. Awaiting more details."

According to Samantha Fischer, a reporter for KARE Channel 11 in Minneapolis, "KARE 11 confirmed at least nine more people were arrested in connection with a St. Paul church protest last month that already saw the high-profile arrests of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, as well as attorney and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong. KARE's Lou Raguse said sources reported those arrested were taken to the federal courthouse in St. Paul, where they're expected to make their first court appearances Friday afternoon."

Gerstein tweeted a copy of a federal court document in *United States of America v. Nekima Valdez Levyarmstrong, Et Al.

In the document, Harmeet K. Dhillon — assistant U.S. attorney general in DOJ's Civil Rights Division — and other federal prosecutors write, "The United States of America, by and through its undersigned attorneys, hereby moves the Court for an order to unseal the Superseding Indictment in the above-referenced matter."

Lemon and his allies maintain that the Trump DOJ case him has no merit, as he wasn't part of the demonstration inside the Minneapolis church and was strictly there as a journalist.

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The Trump administration's accusation against former CNN journalist Don Lemon appeared to be contradicted in a newly released piece of video, according to a Friday report from the Washington Post, casting significant doubt on the rationale given for his the charges brought against him.

Last month, Lemon, along with Twin Cities-based reporter Georgia Fort and several others, was arrested by federal officers in connection with his presence at a protest that took place at a St. Paul church weeks prior. Lemon and Fortasserted that they were present for the event as journalists covering it, but the federal indictment against them claims that they were "agitators" along with the rest of the protesters, who "entered the Church in a coordinated takeover-style attack."

The indictment did not characterize Lemon and Fort as reporters, aside from mentions of Lemon engaging in a livestream for his online show and Fort conducting an interview. They and the rest of the protesters are charged with conspiring to deprive congregants of their religious rights and of interfering with access to a place of worship. The DOJ alleged that they "oppressed, threatened, and intimidated" church attendees "by physically occupying most of the main aisle and rows of chairs near the front of the Church, engaging in menacing and threatening behavior."

"Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done," Lemon's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said following his arrest.

On Friday, the Washington Post reported on footage of the protest from a Black Lives Matter livestream and a livestream conducted by Fort. At no point in the footage, the outlet explained, did Lemon appear to behave in a manner consistent with the allegations against him.

"Alive stream from Black Lives Matter Minnesota captures Lemon standing at the back of the sanctuary when the protest begins about two minutes later," the report detailed. "He soon moves forward to where the demonstrators are gathered and can be heard on his feed narrating the events for his audience. Fort’s live stream shows protesters chanting anti-ICE slogans and in some cases confronting parishioners... Lemon remains toward the front of the church — sometimes off to the side and sometimes near the main aisle — for roughly 16 minutes. "

The report continued: "For less than half of that time, he is off-camera but his feed remains live with audio from his microphone. His feed drops out entirely on several occasions for a few seconds at a time. The videos and audio reviewed by The Post contain no indication Lemon threatened church congregants or chanted or yelled."

At one point in the footage reviewed, Lemon can be heard saying, "I’m not part of the group; I’m just here photographing. I’m a journalist." Later on, he holds the door for people leaving the church, asking some for interviews. When one man declines the request, Lemon said, "Okay, thank you, I appreciate it." The two continue a heated back-and-forth after the man claimed to support the deportation operation in the Twin Cities area, with Lemon accusing him of not listening to facts and the man countering that Lemon was posing as a journalist. While tense, the Post noted that Lemon at no point prevented the man from exiting the building, as the indictment said.

“There is clearly no physical obstruction of that exit,” Judy Appelbaum, who worked as a lead congressional staffer involved in drafting the 1994 law that Lemon was charged under, explained to the Post. “And I don’t see any use of force, nor any threat of force.”

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After calling for Don Lemon’s arrest, right-wing media are now celebrating it

Written by Reed McMaster & Ben Van Bloem

Published 02/02/26

Right-wing media figures called for Don Lemon's arrest, claiming he needed to be “next to fall” and made an “example out of” after he and fellow independent journalist Georgia Fort covered a January 18 protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Minnesota church. After they were arrested on January 30, right-wing media figures celebrated, calling it “a wonderful thing to happen” and stating that it was time for Lemon to “feel some trauma.”

Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents after reporting on a protest at a Minnesota church

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January 30, 2026, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show

GREGG JARRETT (GUEST): The racist overtones are conspicuous for all to see and hear on those videotapes. And then, you know, Don Lemon later appeared on a podcast, and he doubled down on it. He called the members of the church entitled white supremacists as if that somehow justifies an attack on them. You know, it's not just a despicable remark, but it tells me that they were taunted because of their race, which qualifies as a hate crime. I would have charged him with that.

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James Fishback Says Don Lemon Is 'Lucky That He's Not Getting Executed In The Public Square'

01/30/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

James Fishback is a far-right Republican candidate for governor in Florida whose campaign has overtly appealed to the white nationalist movement, with Fishback making multiple appearances on programs hosted by virulently antisemitic white nationalists and voicing his admiration for white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his "groyper" movement.

On Friday, Fishback appeared on the American Family Association's "Jenna Ellis In The Morning" program, hosted by one of President Donald Trump's former attorneys, where he opened the interview by praising the Trump administration for arresting independent journalist Don Lemon for his coverage of a group of anti-ICE protesters who invaded a church in Minneapolis earlier this month.

"It is a good day for law and order in America," Fishback declared. "A man ransacked a church during Sunday service with BLM and antifa thugs. If our Founding Fathers knew that a bunch of thugs, led by Don Lemon, had ransacked a church on Sunday morning while parishioners were praising our awesome God, they would have likely called for his public execution."

"Don Lemon should be lucky that he's not getting executed in the public square for his little stunt, his violence, his aggression," Fishback continued. "It's time that Christians stand up for our rights in this country. We cannot be bullied. We cannot be pushed around, least of all by Don Lemon, and so it's a good day for law and order. I'm proud of what President Trump and the DOJ are doing and let's see that justice is served in this case all the way through."

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01/30/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

Trump has been raging about the former CNN journalist. Attorney General Pam Bondi just had him arrested, a move one legal expert slammed as “highly irregular.”

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MS NOW reporter Carol Leonnig is reporting that federal prosecutors in two different states refused to handle the attempts to indict journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.

"What we've been hearing for really a week and a half has been concern among prosecutors in Minnesota about the way this office has basically been by the deputy attorney general and the attorney general's office," said Leonnig.

The acting U.S. attorney in the Minnesota District is Dan Rosen, who has no experience as a prosecutor, she explained.

That "will sound familiar to a lot of you on the panel, because that was one of the major problems in the Eastern District of Virginia," Leonnig said in passing about attorney Lindsey Halligan, who was forced out by a judge in the district.

"But the new news here is that those prosecutors [had] concerns about the immigration arrests and whether or not those were legal. They are also very concerned and declined to participate in this, because they don't believe the Don Lemon charges will actually stand up," Leonnig said.

Prosecutors are generally advised not to prosecute a case that they know they can't win. That has changed in the era of President Donald Trump, who has used the Justice Department to go after some of his top enemies.

Lemo was arrested in Los Angeles, where he was slated to cover the Grammy Awards. He may have had a grand jury indictment in Minnesota, but all of those documents are under seal and the public and press cannot view them. To get an arrest of Lemon in Los Angeles, however, many prosecutors there were involved, Leonnig said.

They "also registered concern, and some of them declined to participate in this because, again, they have a duty of candor to the court," added Leonnig. "They don't feel comfortable bringing cases and pursuing cases where they do not think the facts line up with the charges."

MS NOW host Ana Cabrera noted that this isn't the first time the public has seen local prosecutors from the Justice Departmen "buck orders" from the Washington office.

Leonnig called it "worrisome" because it reveals that the main Justice Department "is going to continue directing who is targeted" by Trump. They are also willing to "use whatever means that are at their disposal, whether or not convictions are ever achieved."

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May 14, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight

ROB SCHMITT (HOST): A major political party is calling for killing all the white people in the country. This is what asylum is. We have seen thousands of attacks on these people. Your thoughts?

:{:{VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (GUEST): Yeah. It is. And most of the people who were among the ten thousand who came in were not refugees over the last four years. So — and then, you know, ever since the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 that Ted Kennedy helped push through, we've had almost no immigration from Europeans or the former British Commonwealth. They've been mostly people from Latin America, Africa, and China, which is fine. But we've got so acculturated to the idea that so-called white people will not be immigrating to the United States, that we've created this — I don't know what you call it, a covert racism and that gets explicit when it when it actually is actualized.}:

And most of these people who are coming from South Africa were born after the end of apartheid. I mean, we're talking about forty, thirty years ago. And most of them, you know, it's — this idea of collective guilt that every single person there was a member of a racist society is not true. And it's a new South Africa. They passed a law, and as we know last year that said that the government could appropriate farmland without compensation. And then everybody in the West on the left said, well, they're only going to do it for public purposes, but public purposes could cover almost anything. Ss they — and I think what South Africa is looking at is they're looking at Zimbabwe, Rhodesia where they expropriated the land and it went from one of the greatest food exporter per acre in the world —}:

SCHMITT: To famine.

HANSON: Starving.

SCHMITT: Yeah, to starving.

HANSON: Yeah.

SCHMITT: And that's exactly the point. Zimbabwe is — that's 25 years ago. They can't even look that far to see it. The politicians don't understand. I think that the end of apartheid in South Africa is going to end up being a liability. The irony of that for the country. But do you think that the — do you think that the white farmers are largely going to flee the country? Because if that happens, the country collapses?

HANSON: Most of them have been there nine and ten generations. They have been there then the majority of the population that came in, you know, from other countries that were not white. They've been there since the 17th century.

SCHMITT: Right.

HANSON: And I don't think nine generations, a lot of them are not going to leave. They're going to stay to the bitter end. But some of them that are younger probably will that are not tied to the land or they don't own farms or they're in businesses because it's — let's be honest, we went from white racist apartheid to Black racism in South Africa. And everybody knows it's true. And when Don Lemon and the people on The View talk like they do and somebody hears them, they have no idea how they sound, but they sound like utter racists. He's angry because of the color of the skin, of the people who are threatened. And he didn't say a word when 10,000 people came in because they weren't white. So he's a racist and he knows he is. So are the people in The View that have commented on this. I think it's incumbent upon everybody to tell the truth and say that these people are racists.

SCHMITT: Yeah they are. They're just allowed to be — that's the difference. They're allowed to be.

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it's only been two weeks since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was elected House Speaker and already, CNN is taking swift action to correct inaccurate claims he's shared.

On Tuesday, January 24, CNN's Don Lemon aired a brief clip of the top-ranking Republican lawmaker's remarks about the debt ceiling.

In the clip, McCarthy could be heard saying, "Listen, when Trump was president and Nancy Pelosi was speaker, they became a debt ceiling agreement. And it was a cap agreement for two years to cap the spending and make those decisions."

READ MORE: Republicans withholding speakership support from Kevin McCarthy cite 'past and ongoing GOP failures'

Lemon turned the segment over toCNN Daniel Dalewho broke down the claims and pushed back against McCarthy's arguments.

"John McCarthy is wrong in two ways here. First of all, House Republicans didn't actually repeal anything they did vote to repeal. They passed a bill to repeal more than 70 billion in new IRS funding," Dale explained. "But that bill is not going to get through the Senate or President Biden. So they have not changed the law. Second of all, this frequent Republican talking point you hear about how Democrats are hiring 87,000 new IRS agents is just not true. It's an exaggeration.

He went on to discuss President Joe Biden's legislation to combat inflation.

"The inflation reduction act that Biden signed into law last year includes 80 billion in additional funding for the IRS that will very possibly allow the IRS to hire tens of thousands of additional employees," he said. "But not even close to all these employees, Don, will be agents. The people who conduct audits and investigations sometimes frighten people. Non-agents make up the vast majority of the IRS workforce."

READ MORE: Kevin McCarthy is being imperiled by the very 'extremists' he encouraged: ex-Reagan speechwriter

He continued, "And many of the newly hired employees we know will be in things like customer service and operations in it. And experts tell us that many of the new hires will be making up for attrition filling posts left by tens of thousands of retirements departures, not taking newly created jobs."

Dale added, "So the image McCarthy and other Republicans are trying to conjure, Don, of this army of 87,000 new agents coming to get you is not based on the facts."

READ MORE: Hakeem Jeffries rips Kevin McCarthy's apparent double standard' with committee assignments

https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/does-not-need-to-apologize/

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Watch: Former Trump staffer says Donald 'does not need to apologize' for dining with Holocaust denier

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Brandon Gage November 28, 2022

CNN anchor Don Lemon on Monday morning grilled former President Donald Trump's Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Len Khodorkovsky about the attendance of antisemites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes – an outspoken Holocaust denier – at a dinner that Trump hosted on Tuesday, November 22nd at his Palm Beach, Florida Mar-a-Lago estate.

Trump's association with West and Fuentes has triggered widespread outrage and frustration, most notably among Republicans, many of whom believe that Trump has all but sabotaged the party's chances of retaking the presidency in 2024 if Trump wins the GOP nomination.

Yet there are exceptions, such as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California), who has not opined on the clandestine company that Trump appears to be keeping. Trump, meanwhile, has refused to acknowledge the bigotry that Fuentes espouses and has denied having any knowledge of Fuentes prior to their meal. Trump also reportedly fears that disavowing white supremacy and antisemitism would alienate his supporters.

READ MORE: 'Entrenched in obstinance': Donald Trump is refusing to condemn Holocaust denier despite allies' pleas

Karen Giorno, an ex-Trump aide and senior advisor who was at the event, told The Washington Post on Friday that Trump "was impressed with Nick and his knowledge of Trump World. Nick knew people and figures and speeches and rallies and what surrounded the Trump culture, particularly when it came to the base."

During Monday's CNN segment, Lemon asked Khodorkovsky to condemn Trump for meeting with West and Fuentes.

It was a struggle.

Khodorkovsky:

As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I am concerned with the mainstreaming of antisemitism wherever it comes from. And I, I, I, condemn Kanye's antisemitism and I condemn his psychic's antisemitism.

Lemon:

Do you condemn the former president for meeting with antisemites?

Khodorkovsky:

Sir, sir, alright you know, I would appreciate the opportunity to...

READ MORE: 'Not accidental': GOP governor admonishes Donald Trump for dining with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes

Lemon:

You said you condemn antisemitism and the mainstreaming of antisemitism. Do you condemn the former president for meeting with antisemites? For entertaining antisemites and antisemitism?

Khodorkovsky:

Let me just explain it to you this way sir. I know the president is not an antisemite. He does not need to apologize to me or anybody else.

Lemon:

I'm not asking if he's an antisemite. I'm asking if you entertain – do you condemn him for entertaining and meeting with antisemites? It's a very simple question.

Khodorkovsky:

Well and I'm trying to give you an answer that I wish he wouldn't have met with them.

Lemon:

It's a yes or a no.

Khodorkovsky:

I didn't realize I was on a witness stand here, Don. look, I'm trying to have a substantive conversation about a real issue like antisemitism and you're trying to make it all about Trump. It's not about Trump.

Lemon:

Well, it is about Trump. Sir, we're talking about the former president meeting with an antisemite. How is this not about Trump?

Khodorkovsky:

Because it's about the antisemitism. It's not about Trump.It's about making sure the issue of antisemitism is confronted in a way, in a substantive way, in which, you know, obviously, I'm sure you're aware there's rising antisemitism in the United States and the world. It certainly is important for us to take it on. It is important for us to call it out.I am calling it out. I am saying he should not have met with Kanye West and his psychic.What I'm also trying to point out, Don, is that it behooves you and CNN and every other press outlet to call it out when you see it, especially when it comes in the halls of Congress, especially when every Democratic presidential hopeful goes and kisses the ring of Al Sharpton.

Lemon:

I think, listen, sir. CNN does that.

Watch below or at this link.

READ MORE: 'Nightmare': Longtime Trump adviser warns Fuentes meeting is 'another reason' people want 'DeSantis to run'

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lemon

Don Lemon (born March 1, 1966) is an American journalist and author. He is a news anchor for CNN based in New York City, and hosts CNN Tonight.

Early life

Lemon was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was educated at Baker High School, a public high school in the town of Baker in East Baton Rouge Parish. He majored in broadcast journalism at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Louisiana State University.[2][3] While in college, Lemon worked as a news assistant at WNYWin New York City.

Career

Early in his career, Lemon reported as a weekend anchor for WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama, and WCAU in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as well as an anchor and investigative reporter for KTVI St. Louis.[2]

Lemon reported for NBC News' New York City operations, including working as a correspondent for Today and NBC Nightly News and an anchor on Weekend Today and MSNBC. In 2003, he began at NBC owned-and-operated station WMAQ-TV (5 in Chicago), and was a reporter as well as local news co-anchor.[2]

Lemon joined CNN in September 2006.[2] He has been outspoken in his work at CNN, criticizing the state of cable news and questioning the network publicly.[4] He has also voiced strong opinions on ways that the African-American community can improve themselves, which has caused some controversy.[5] Since 2014, he has hosted CNN's New Year's Eve special from New Orleans.

In a much-reported broadcast in January 2018, Lemon introduced his broadcast with, “This is CNN Tonight, I’m Don Lemon. The President of the United States is racist.”[6]

Personal life

During an on-air interview with members of Bishop Eddie Long's congregation in September 2010, Lemon said that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, and that it was not until he was thirty years old that he told his mother about it.[7]

In his memoir, Transparent, Lemon came out as gay[8] and discusses colorism in the black community, and the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.[9] He has Creole ancestry (his great-grandfather was of Frenchdescent) in addition to Nigerian, Cameroonian, and Congolese ancestry.[10][11]

In 2015, over 30,000 people signed a petition demanding that Lemon be fired from CNN following a controversial remark he made regarding police behavior.[12]

On January 31, 2018, Lemon's sister, L'Tanya "Leisa" Lemon Grimes, died at the age of 58; police concluded that her death was an accidental drowning in a pond while fishing.[13] After being absent for approximately a week, he opened the show on February 6 by thanking everyone who wished him "prayers and words of encouragement". He said that conservatives, like Sean Hannity, were among the first to call, which illustrated how they actually respect each other and have good relations, even though they disagree on the issues.[14]

Lemon owns an apartment in Harlem and a second home in Sag Harbor NY, an area of Long Island.[15]

Honors and awards

Lemon won an Emmy Award for a special report on the real estate market in Chicago.[16] He received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the capture of the D.C. area sniper,[17] and a number of other awards for reports on Hurricane Katrina, and the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Lemon was voted as one of the 150 most influential African-Americans by Ebony magazine in 2009.[18]

In 2014, however, Lemon's work was named in a list of worst journalism of the year by the Columbia Journalism Review, for his questions about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, spanking children, and US Army POW Bowe Bergdahl. He suggested to an alleged Bill Cosby rape victim that she could have resisted oral sex by biting him, despite claiming in his book to be a victim of sexual abuse himself.[19][20]

Controversies

In 2018 Lemon described Kanye West's appearance at the White House with President Donald Trump as "embarrassing" and a "Minstrel Show" whilst allowing his panel members to describe West as a "TokenNegro".[21] In October 2018, Lemon stated on-air: "So, we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right. And we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on — they had the Muslim ban. There is no white guy ban. So, what do we do about that?"[22]

Published works

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