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The Michael Knowles Show

Ep. 1894 - Trump Launches Investigation Into Don Lemon

20 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the DOJ investigating regarding Jacob Frye and Tim Walz?

0.031 - 22.647 Michael Knowles

The Department of Justice is investigating Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for impeding law enforcement. A crime that they would be more likely to get away with if they had not admitted to it repeatedly on television. Then the DOJ investigates Don Lemon for conspiring with a mob to interrupt a Baptist church service on Sunday.

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22.627 - 37.429 Michael Knowles

with the delightful kicker that Lemon might be charged under the Ku Klux Klan Act. And then, speaking of the Klan, does anyone care about Martin Luther King anymore? Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day. No one really talked about it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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The Michael Knowles Show

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52.63 - 68.502 Michael Knowles

Welcome back to the show, 100 Days of Trump. It's been, no, sorry, not 100. We're well past 100 days. The first year of Trump is over. How quickly it flew.

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Chapter 2: What allegations are made against Don Lemon in this episode?

68.562 - 97.828 Michael Knowles

How much has changed. We have the Daily Wire's own Mary Margaret Olihan embedded in the White House so frequently. She will be giving us the summary, the update. What's going on? What's the scuttlebutt in the halls of power? A full year of Trump. That's a lot. That's roughly 365 days. And Here, we've had our Christmas decorations up for roughly 10,000 days at this point.

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But some people have asked about this. It's because it's Christmas Day.

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Chapter 3: Why does the host question the relevance of Martin Luther King today?

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There's then the octave of Christmas. There is then the 12 days of Christmas. You know, my true love gave to me. But then the full Christmas season goes till candlemas. Crazy to think, folks, in a mere 12, 13 days, we're going to have to take these decorations down. Okay, I want to get to the federal investigations into the insurrectionist Democrats. First, though, I want to tell you about...

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Witness what it takes to secure her return to one of the world's most powerful roles. It is only in theaters January 30th. Go see it. Melania. Coming soon. Jacob Frye is very, very upset. He is the mayor of Minneapolis, as you probably know him mostly from speaking in the Greedo, Boba Fett kind of Star Wars language. But he is not a Somali. He is an American, I guess. And Jacob Frye

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is very worried now because after months and months of covering up for Somali criminals, after weeks now of obstructing law enforcement, of opposing the federal government, of some might suggest helping to lead an insurrection, the federal government is now investigating Jacob Frye.

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195.663 - 203.636 Jacob Fry

I never thought in a million years that we would be invaded by our own federal government.

Chapter 4: What insights does Mary Margaret Olohan provide about Trump's first year?

204.317 - 221.182 Jacob Fry

Of course there's different perspectives when a different party gets sworn into the White House. Of course there are different ideologies throughout America. That's part of what makes our country great. You don't get investigated for having a different opinion.

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221.362 - 239.963 Jacob Fry

You don't have militarized troops deployed to a city for having a different perspective or because a city happened to vote for the opposite party. That may be what happens in other countries, but it doesn't happen here. Here, this is America, and we've got to be standing up for these American values.

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240.247 - 259.47 Michael Knowles

I totally agree, Jacob Fry, a rare moment of total agreement. Maybe there would be more moments of agreement if you spoke English more often instead of Somali, but we agree. You don't get investigated by the federal government simply for having a difference of opinion, certainly not under Trump, maybe under Joe Biden and the Democrats you do.

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259.619 - 282.705 Michael Knowles

When the IRS is weaponized against political opponents, when the DOJ and the FBI are weaponized against political opponents, when they go spy on Catholics, when they go round up people who advocate on behalf of unborn babies, that's true. But under Trump, you're right, you don't get investigated for a difference of opinion. You do get investigated for obstructing law enforcement.

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282.725 - 298.206 Michael Knowles

You do get investigated for aiding and abetting crime. You do get investigated for undermining federal law. You will get investigated for that, and you could go to jail for that. He says, look, we have different ideologies, different beliefs in America. That's part of what makes America great.

Chapter 5: How does the episode discuss the implications of the Ku Klux Klan Act?

298.226 - 321.83 Michael Knowles

That's true. That's been a feature of America from the very beginning. Doesn't mean we tolerate all ideologies, but we do embrace differences of opinion, and we deliberate, and we debate, and we persuade each other. Yeah, yeah, that's all great. You don't get investigated for that. That's true. you do get investigated for undermining the supremacy clause of the Constitution.

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Notice what he says there at the top. This is where he let the mask clip. He said, I never thought we'd be in a position where the federal government would invade our cities. What are you talking about? The federal government has done that many times, going back to the earliest days of the country.

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Some of the big threats against federal power, against a unified United States, going back to, I don't know, the Whiskey Rebellion, Shays' Rebellion, all the way up through the Civil War, certainly.

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I never thought, well, now I say, I say, Mayor Jacob Fry here of Minneapolis, I never thought I'd see this northern aggression coming here to undermine my state's rights, my city's rights. to fund al-Shabaab. I never thought I'd see this here. This is unconstitutional, I see. What is he talking about?

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Is he now making secessionist arguments? The federal government sent troops in to desegregate schools in the 1950s. What are you talking about? You didn't think the federal government had power to enforce federal law? No, you knew that. You just want to harbor illegal aliens and other foreign criminals who should not be in this country. That's what they're investigating you for.

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They're investigating you for things like this.

404.407 - 431.1 Jacob Fry

There's little I can say, again, that'll make this situation better. But I do have a message for our community, for our city. And I have a message for ICE. To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.

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That's what you're being investigated for, that kind of stuff. Get the F out. You're being investigated for your cringe millennial rhetoric.

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You're absolutely cringe-inducing diction.

Chapter 6: What criticisms are made about the current political climate and its leaders?

484.788 - 508.653 Tim Walz

When things look really bleak, it was Minnesota's first that held that line for the nation on that July 3rd, 1863. And I think now we may be in that moment that the nation's looking to us to hold the line on democracy. Order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. I remind you, a warning order is a heads up for folks.

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509.314 - 525.218 Tim Walz

And these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops. They're teachers in your community. They're business owners. They're construction professionals. They are Minnesotans. Minnesota will not allow our community to be used as a prop in a national political fight.

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525.198 - 545.13 Michael Knowles

Tim Walz is radical and openly radical, but he's so bumbling that he doesn't even realize he is just admitting to crimes. He's just openly committing crimes here. And he's not even doing it the way he thinks he is. So he comes right out. He says, this is civil war. This is 1863. This is civil war.

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Except the irony is he's pretending that he is, in the analogy to the Civil War in the 1860s, he's on the side of the Union. But he's not on the side of the Union in this case.

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Chapter 7: What are the contrasting views on the legacy of Martin Luther King?

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He would be on the side of the Confederacy. Because he is resisting the enforcement of federal law along with federal troops. So he says, this is just like the 1860s. First of all, you're admitting, okay, this is civil war, this is insurrection. And we're on the side of the secessionists and the insurrectionists. Why would you admit that? And then he doubles down.

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582.526 - 599.333 Michael Knowles

He says, we're calling up the National Guard and it's Minnesota National Guard. In other words, to oppose the federal troops. So yeah, that's insurrection. And the libs tried to pretend that Granny's taking selfies in the Capitol on January 6th was insurrection for years and years and years. Now we got to give it to them. We got to give it to them good and hard.

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I'm pleased to see that the DOJ is investigating. I do have confidence that the DOJ is going to do what's right and is going to get all the information and all the evidence and nail these guys. Jail time. Jail time for the insurrectionists. Need to have it. Because... Joe Biden put people who were far, far less guilty, far, far less plausibly committed insurrection in prison for years.

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So we got to do it because if we don't enforce the law, then all we're doing is getting the left riled up and they're going to do to us again what they have already done. If your fear is that we're going to shatter norms or something like that, I think it's pretty clear the left already shattered all those norms. So the only question is now, are we going to hold them to account?

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Are we going to hold them to their own standard? Are we going to weaken them politically in accordance with the law and justice? Or are we not? Or are we just going to rile them up? And are we going to wait for the next time they take power so that they can do far worse to us? We're not just looking here at the governor and the mayor. We are also looking at Don Lemon.

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Don Lemon, as you know, also admitted to committing crimes on camera on Sunday. I don't know what these people, they're like a moth to a flame with the attention. We're talking about it even with the live stream influencer club night that was going viral. All right, they all want to be on camera all the time.

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And they admit to things that they probably should keep private if they don't want to be prosecuted. Don Lemon admitting to conspiring with a mob that invaded a church during a worship service. And now he might be held to account, including through the Ku Klux Klan Act. We will get to that momentarily. First, I want to tell you about Ave Maria Mutual Funds.

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Chapter 8: How does the conversation shift towards Michelle Obama's recent comments?

828.107 - 847.441 Harmeet Dhillon

In fact, you had sheriffs and you had law enforcement harassing the newly freed slaves. So the Klan Act is a law that makes it illegal to terrorize citizens, to violate their civil rights, to get together and conspire to violate the civil rights. Some of these folks who did this have self-identified.

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847.861 - 867.072 Harmeet Dhillon

Don Lemon himself has come out and said he knew exactly what was going to happen inside that facility. He went into the facility and then he began, quote unquote, committing journalism. And as if that's sort of a shield from being a part, an embedded part of a criminal conspiracy. It isn't.

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867.412 - 878.327 Harmeet Dhillon

Everyone in the protest community needs to know that the fullest force of the federal government is going to come down and prevent this from happening and put people away for a long, long time.

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878.847 - 897.727 Michael Knowles

Terrific. It's great. Obviously has to happen. What the mob did was obviously in violation, as Harmeet mentions, of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, as well as of the FACE Act, which is a much more modern act, which exists really just to protect abortion mills from people demonstrating or praying outside of them.

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But as a little fig leaf they gave to the conservatives to pass it, they said, look, okay, we'll protect... We'll protect the abortion mills, which is the church of the left. And we'll also protect the churches, which is the church of the right. So, yes, this is really all about the abortion mills. But in order to get some votes to pass it, okay, fine.

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We'll also protect the churches and stop people from demonstrating at the churches. But they never do that, really. It's really just about protecting the abortion mills. So, in any case, they have a good case here, especially against Don Lemon. Because Don Lemon says, I'm just committing an act of journalism. I'm just a real shoe-leather journalist covering this event. But that's not true at all.

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It's not that some event happened and then Don Lemon showed up and said, I'm here at the scene. I'm Don Lemon, fired from CNN on LemonParty.com or whatever his new news website is. And so, hi, this is what's happening and we're learning all the facts right now. That's not what he did. He rides up with these guys. He says, ooh, I know a secret.

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I know what we're about to do, but I can't tell you yet, but just you wait and see. Admitting that he is conspiring with them, not merely even to demonstrate, but to break the law. And then there are videos going around. He's giving them coffee and donuts afterward. He's working with these guys. And then he thinks he's being real cute and clever. He says, but I'm a journalist.

975.382 - 989.624 Michael Knowles

Hold on, wait, put the coffee and donuts away. Forget about that stuff I said about knowing the secret and planning with these people. Now I've got my journalist out. I'm a journalist. That doesn't work. You can't like go out and murder your wife and then say, I'm a journalist. No, hold on.

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