Don Lemon ARRESTED Under Klan and FACE Acts, with Michael Knowles, Mike Davis, Bill Shipley, and Howard Blum | Ep. 1242
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What breaking news does Megyn Kelly discuss at the beginning?
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. We woke up this Friday morning to some breaking news. Don Lemon, the former CNN host who now makes a fool of himself on his bizarre YouTube channel, has been arrested by the feds for his role in the now infamous agitator-led ICE protest at City's Church in St. Paul, Minnesota during Sunday service on January 18th. According to reports, he's been charged with two federal crimes, conspiracy against rights, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, a felony. That's where you violate somebody else's civil rights like that to attend a worship service. And he's been charged also with violating the FACE Act, which makes it a crime to, quote, by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injure
intimidate or interfere with or attempt to injure and intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship. OK, so if he in short, if he by physical instruction, obstruction interfered with someone's ability to go to church and He's in trouble. And that's what they're alleging, that he and others went into that church, they obstructed the aisles, they obstructed the entrances, the exits, the ability of parents to get downstairs to get their children who were in the preschool sort of waiting area where you put your kids to Sunday school while you're at the main church, and that they did it knowing that they'd be interfering in the mass and still doing it anyway.
That's what they did. Don Lemon knew what he was walking into. He knew exactly what he was walking into. And he did it anyway. Now, he wants to claim that he was a journalist and that that's how somehow protects him. It doesn't. OK, so I'm going to take you through right now why we think John Don Lemon was not behaving as a journalist that day. But it doesn't it doesn't matter at all. It 100 percent as a journalist. This is illegal as a journalist. This is illegal. We're still waiting to get our hands on the indictment to see exactly what the DOJ is alleging. And I have been told by a reliable source that when we see the supporting affidavit, it will have far more detail than we got from the supporting affidavit for the first three who were charged.
So I'm looking forward to seeing that. And don't forget, they brought this before a magistrate judge last week. That magistrate judge approved the charges against the three leaders of the protest, Nikima Levy Armstrong, Chantel Allen, and William Kelly. He's the most obnoxious of anyone, screaming in the faces of children that their parents are Nazis. But at that time, that magistrate judge, who, don't forget, his wife works for Keith Ellison, the attorney general, leading the charge against ICE in Minneapolis. And his wife, the magistrate judge's wife, continues to like tweets opposing ICE. That magistrate judge at the time declined to approve charges against Lemon. They tried to take that judge's decision up to his district court boss, the chief judge in the district, to try to get him to sign off on them.
And while you have all these journalists out there now saying he said you could not bring these charges, the chief judge said you could not bring charges against Lemon.
What are the charges against Don Lemon?
He said nothing of the kind. He said, what are you coming to me for? If you don't like the magistrate judge's decision, you can either improve your affidavit in support of charges and try again with the magistrate judge. Or you do the other thing that federal prosecutors do if they want criminal charges brought. And that is go before a grand jury. which we understand was not in session last week. So they had to wait until this week. And that's exactly what they did yesterday. So you have idiots like Gretchen Carlson out there saying the chief judge, the district's judge said these charges could not be brought. That's not correct.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What breaking news does Megyn Kelly discuss at the beginning?
0:00–3:39
2
What are the charges against Don Lemon?
3:39–7:20
3
What evidence is there of Don Lemon's involvement in the protest?
7:20–9:03
4
How does Don Lemon justify his actions as a journalist?
9:03–59:04
5
What legal implications does Don Lemon face after his church disruption?
59:04–59:57
6
How does Don Lemon's career transition impact his current legal troubles?
59:57–1:00:56
7
What evidence suggests there could be an accomplice in the Brian Kohlberger case?
1:00:56–1:01:37
8
What are the implications of the latest developments in the Brian Kohlberger case?
1:01:37–1:58:12
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