Don Lemon on Why Trump Wants Him Jailed
February 27, 2026
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as posted by the channelDonald Trump’s brazen war on free speech continues as his administration arrested Don Lemon and called for his prosecution after the CNN host turned independent journalist reported on an anti-ICE protest.
Lemon joins Zeteo’s John Harwood for a Substack Live conversation about being targeted by Trump’s Justice Department, the overt racism driving the Trump administration, and the role it may have played in Lemon’s arrest, MAGA’s threat to the First Amendment through media consolidation, regulatory pressure, and bullying reporters, self-censorship inside mainstream press, and much more.
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