Malcolm X.
Nelson Mandela.
Don Lemon.
Our three greatest civil rights activists, all imprisoned by The Man at the height of their powers.
One, pushed the country to pass voting rights for African Americans.
The other, pushed South Africa to end its Apartheid.
The last, a jaded prick, caught in the middle of a political hurricane, storm-chasing, clout-deprived, thirsty to be the face of a national story he’s shown no prior passion regarding.
The former CNN anchor Don Lemon and three other people have been arrested on charges that they violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., this month, lawyers and Justice Department officials said on Friday, reviving a case that was rejected last week by a magistrate judge.
The arrests of Mr. Lemon, a second journalist and two protesters came a little more than a week after three other demonstrators who took part in the action at the Cities Church on Jan. 18 were taken into custody. The prosecution is likely to face pushback from defense lawyers on First Amendment grounds, given that political protest sits at the center of the charges and that Mr. Lemon and the other journalist, Georgia Fort, have said they entered the church to cover a demonstration against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the area. (NYT)
After courts told the Trump Administration they cannot arrest the media for covering a protest—the Trump administration went ahead and arrested the media for covering a protest— most importantly, they arrested Don Lemon, the only name in this New York Times report, the only human the DOJ wanted named in this whole story.
I love this for Don.
This is how you get your career back on track.
In 2024, Don Lemon was fired from CNN following a Variety report detailing his catty, misogynistic megalomania combined with his low ratings.
Don Lemon lost his job for being a mean girl and now—thanks to Donald Trump’s appetite for messy media drama— ets to play victim, cosplay freedom fighter— a widdle-bitty-baby independent journalist (don’t Google what he said about Nikki Haley) attacked by the big bad MAGA man.
This is exactly what Don Lemon wanted.
He went to that protest for attention and now he’s stolen it.
It’s his.
No focus on courts deeming Trump’s actions illegal while he proceeds to do whatever he wants without consequence, no clear, coherent push to fucking see those consequences— shit, as I’m writing this, new Epstein leaks show my guy Trump was out here finger-testing teenage girls before auctioning them off, and Don Lemon’s lemonhead is front page news.
Everyone enjoy this season of The Traitors because you will hate next year when Don Lemon calls a Real Housewife a slur, dashiki-fitted, black fist emoji in his apology IG post after that episode airs.
Former Harvard President, Larry Summers Sure Loved Jeffrey Epstein
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