HOT TOPICS | How Is the Public Reacting to the Trump-Epstein Scandal? - July 29th, 2025
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What is Don Lemon’s opening topic and how does he set the scene for today’s episode?
Good morning, everybody. Big stretch. How are you this morning? Maybe one day we should do, I don't know, exercise or morning stretch. What's your morning ritual, by the way? Have I ever asked you guys that? Asked? Not asked. Have I ever asked you guys, what is your morning ritual? What do you guys do in the morning? Hi, Sylvia Strong. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. This is getting crazy. Anyways. How are you? Good morning. I have a little coffee. By the way, I have a little in my Don Lemon Show mug. By the way, there you go. You can check it out at the merch store. You can get one for the Don Lemon Show. I should be more careful because I'm a klutz. This could go right in my computer. And that would not be good. Mine is to cook breakfast and watch Hot Topics as Chris McMahon.
McCain, sorry. Thank you, Chris McCain. Bettina says she meditates and prays in the morning. Pray and work out, says GrumpyAuthor7. Wait, grumpy? You can't be grumpy. Morning ritual, feed dogs, pray, work out, feed dogs, get coffee and read, says Rosemary. Coffee and makeup, says Sammy. Male mom says coffee, coffee, coffee. Okay, so I'm having community coffee this morning because my mom is here, so we popped open a bag of community coffee. What did I tell you? It's the Mardi Gras edition, which is like a... I think it's the King cake. I think they're both the same thing. If not, they're very similar morning. Wake and bake says Sabrina. All right, Sabrina. I ain't mad at you. Go for a walk. That's what I would like my mother to do is to wake up and go for a walk, but she wakes up and she gets on Facebook and that is not healthy.
She wakes up and she watches. She should like put the Don Lemon show in her ear on her earphones and go for a walk in the morning, but she won't. So I told her I was going to start calling her out on here. She's going to be mad at me. Tell mom in the chat she needs to get a little exercise. She needs to walk. She needs to get off of her phone because constantly she's like this. Tell her. Talk to her, y'all. Come on. Anyways, Ethel walks two and a half miles. Ethel, that's more than I walk in the morning, but I do walk around the city. I get my walk in the day. I probably walk a couple miles when I'm in the city, especially. Go walk, mommy. Who said that? Yes, mommy. Good morning, everybody. Tell her to go for a walk.
Don, leave mom alone, says Catherine W., who has the same name as my mom. Go walk, mom, says Patricia. Okay. Yeah, just tell her to take a walk and just, you know, think things out. I tell her she's been through a lot. She needs to, like, chill out. Get off of that damn phone. It's not helping her. I'm just saying. OK, so, Don, that is a new hat color. Yeah, it's a darker blue, which I love. It matches. I put this on. I feel like I'm going golfing or something. I'm maybe like going to go out on a boat. This is the other color that you're talking about. And again, if you want, you can guys can look at it. Just put it up, Andy, real quick before we get into the news. You go to Don Lemon dot com if you want to know, because folks are asking about this.
By the way, it's hot out there, so you might need these. Right. Right. And I do it in the house sometimes when I have the AC on. But go here and you can check it out. Go to Don Lemon dot com and click on merch. Or you can go to our main page on our YouTube channel and then click on store. OK, and then you can get our merch. Don't forget to check us out. July. Excuse me. August 12th at City Winers can be me and D.L. Hughley. OK, we'll get to all of that. So there are the two hats there right on the bottom right. You see them. That's a darker blue and then there's a lighter blue. People love. But dudes usually like the blue one that I'm wearing now, and everybody likes it. And then the other folks like the lemon, the lighter colored one, because they said it, for some reason, it reminds the people who are from Louisiana or who went to an HBCU of Southern University colors.
It looks like it's saying Jaguars or something, Southern University Jaguars. So anyway, that's it. Good morning.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is Don Lemon’s opening topic and how does he set the scene for today’s episode?
0:17–10:51
2
How is the Trump-Epstein scandal being framed by Trump and his surrogates?
10:51–39:02
3
Which public figures did Trump accuse of taking payments to endorse Kamala Harris?
39:02–55:24
4
What legal standard did Don Lemon explain for defamation lawsuits against Trump?
55:24–1:06:16