Don Lemon predicts Trump will ‘retrofit’ law to prosecute him over coverage

Former CNN host Don Lemon said in an interview with Scripps News on Saturday that the Trump administration had visited St. Louis earlier this month. Paul said a judge would go after or “recast” a law to prosecute him after he tracked the agitators to a church in Minnesota.

“I guess it’s not over, because it doesn’t matter if there’s no law to follow, they’ll try to plug something or renovate something or go around a judge and just do it themselves. And it doesn’t matter, and everything they say is about the protesters. I wasn’t a protester. That’s very clear. If you look at all the evidence, I’m not a protester. And I think Alisyn — not that I thought, I know — I was the biggest name. And so if they get a Don Lemon, woohoo, that’s a victory and also the knowledge.” I’m the one who posted it,” she told former CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota. For Scripps Newsin an interview.

In a video he posted on his YouTube channel, Lemon followed and spoke to demonstrators who disrupted a church service.

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A federal magistrate judge on Thursday rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to file criminal charges against Lemon.

“I’m not naive. I think they’ll probably try again and again, like they did with Tish James and Comey and everybody. If one thing doesn’t work, they try something else and it fails and they try something else and then they don’t give up because, you know, they want to save face, but I don’t know what’s next,” Lemon told his former colleague in the Scripps News interview.

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Lemon said he should be in this for the long haul and “keep calm and carry on.”

After the Justice Department called him, Lemon said he was only covering the protest and that it was an act of journalism.

Agitators went to disrupt service St. PaulThey joined the Church of the Cities because they believed a pastor at the church was cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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“It’s remarkable that I was chosen as the face of a protest that I covered as a journalist — especially since I wasn’t the only reporter there. That framing speaks volumes,” Lemon told Fox News Digital earlier this month. “What is even more telling is the barrage of homophobic and racist slurs, as well as violent threats, directed at me online by MAGA supporters and amplified by some of the right-wing press.”

“If so much time and energy is going to be spent creating outrage, it would be far better spent investigating the tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, which is the very issue that brought people to the streets in the first place,” Lemon continued. “I stand behind my reports”

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Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.