In yet another seemingly major win for the Trump Administration, particularly the Department of Justice, which has long been attacked for not doing enough to crack down on the radical left, it has been reported by CBS News and other mainstream media outlets that federal agents with the DOJ have arrested Don Lemon, the former CNN host who stormed Cities Church in St. Paul, Minneapolis, alongside a gang of leftist agitators.
Specifically, CBS News reported shortly after eight in the morning on Friday, January 30, that numerous sources “with direct knowledge” of the matter had reported to it that Don Lemon had been arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) agents on the night of Thursday, January 29, shortly after a grand jury had been embpaneled on the same day to consider charges against him.
Further, CBS News reported, his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, who also represented Hunter Biden, confirmed that Lemon had been arrested by federal agents on Thursday night. He was in Los Angeles when arrested, as he was covering the Grammy Awards. While the charges he will face were not immediately released, but it is likely Lemon will face FACE Act charges, as intimidating churchgoers is a federal crime.
Lowell, in a statement to the press on the matter, said, “Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done.” He added, “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable. There is no more important time for people like Don to be doing this work.”
As background, in the original incident, which occurred on Sunday, January 18, a collection of leftist agitators, including fired former CNN hack Don Lemon, Cities Church to harass ICE and the pastor, who was falsely accused of working with ICE. What the mob did was a major felony, and now calls are growing for them to face the repercussions.
Apparently, Don Lemon, formerly employed at CNN and now an independent podcaster, was riled up alongside the other members of mob in the far-left city by claims from leftist sources online that the church and pastor had been working with ICE to detain and deport illegals. The church is an evangelical one, and leftist social media personalities claimed that the church’s pastor, David Easterwood, is the Field Office Director of ICE in the area. In response to those claims, Lemon and others stormed the church.
Lemon immediately started facing calls from the Trump Administration and online commentariat for his arrest, and freaked out about it. He said, “It’s notable that I’ve been cast as the face of a protest I was covering as a journalist — especially since I wasn’t the only reporter there. That framing is telling.”
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He added, “What’s even more telling is the barrage of violent threats, along with homophobic and racist slurs, directed at me online by MAGA supporters and amplified by parts of the right-wing press. If this much time and energy is going to be spent manufacturing outrage, it would be far better used investigating the tragic death of Renee Nicole Good— the very issue that brought people into the streets in the first place. I stand by my reporting.”
Watch Lemon in the church here: