Jussie Smol…, er.., I mean Don Lemon skirts charges. On Sunday, January 25. 2026 The Daily Wire published an article headlined, “Don Lemon Claims Trump Will ‘Go Around’ A Judge To Prosecute Him.”
Former CNN host Don Lemon said on Sunday that he believed the Trump administration would “go around a judge” if necessary to prosecute him for disrupting a Minneapolis church service alongside radical protesters.
Speaking to fellow former CNN host Alisyn Camerota — now a special events anchor for Scripps News — Lemon repeatedly professed his innocence, claiming he was only observing the protest as a journalist. Lemon claimed that the Trump administration would prosecute him by any means necessary, even if it meant having to “retrofit” laws or circumventing a judge.
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the Justice Department established probable cause to charge former CNN host Don Lemon and four others over the anti-ICE church storming in Minneapolis last weekend. The appeals court, however, declined to force a lower court judge to sign arrest warrants.
Camerota described Lemon as “calm,” “resolute,” and “unapologetic” — and said that he truly believes his actions were protected under the First Amendment because he was acting solely as a journalist at the time.
“I’m not naive. I think they’re probably going to try again and again as they did with kingtoptoto Tish James and Comey and everyone. If one doesn’t work, then they try something else and that fails, and they try something else and then they just don’t give up because they, you know, they want to save face, but I don’t know what’s next,” Lemon said. “I think what’s next is that I have to be in it for the long haul and to, you know, and just to be strong, as always, and keep calm and carry on.”
“This is saddening that in America, some can do as they please with no consequences, while other are imprisoned for doing the same act.” said Thomas Robb, the National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based centrally in Harrison, Arkansas. “Don Lemon did the same thing as the J6 protesters, and they were hunted down like dogs by the FBI. I wouldn’t call Don Lemon a journalist, he’s more an instigator using journalism to cover his crimes. The DOJ said there was probable cause, yet appeals court declined forcing a lower court to sign the arrest warrant. What kind of justice is that? I hope Don Lemon is right about President Trump finding a way to prosecute him. The whole situation boils down to two things, Don Lemon is black, and he’s also a homosexual. Those two things is what is keeping Don Lemon out of jail right now. Now he knows he can get away with inciting riots in a church, who knows what’s next?”
