Don Lemon has spoken out after the Department of Justice put him “on notice” following his recent coverage of a Minneapolis protest against ICE at a church, about which Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump have both also called for the independent journalist’s arrest.
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In a Sunday (Jan. 18) post on X, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon slammed the former CNN anchor for posting footage from the protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn. — where local ICE agent David Easterwood works as a pastor — and called Lemon’s coverage “pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service.”
“A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest!” she wrote, seemingly implying that Lemon had organized the protest, despite him saying that he was simply there to document it as a journalist. “It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws!”
Dhillon added in her post, “You are on notice!”
In response, Lemon told Fox News Digital on Monday (Jan. 19), “It’s notable that I’ve been cast as the face of a protest I was covering as a journalist — especially since I wasn’t the only reporter there. That framing is telling.”
“What’s even more telling is the barrage of violent threats, along with homophobic and racist slurs, directed at me online by MAGA supporters and amplified by parts of the right-wing press,” he continued. “If this much time and energy is going to be spent manufacturing outrage, it would be far better used investigating the tragic death of Renee Nicole Good — the very issue that brought people into the streets in the first place. I stand by my reporting.”
Lemon’s comment comes after Minaj posted some incendiary remarks about him on X. After seeing the journalist’s footage of the protest in St. Paul, the rapper wrote, “DON ‘C—K SUCKIN’ LEMON IS DISGUSTING. HOW DARE YOU? I WANT THAT THUG IN JAIL!!!!! HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO ANY OTHER RELIGION. LOCK HIM UP!!!!!”
Many people would then criticize Minaj for using a homophobic slur in her post about Lemon, who is openly gay and married to real estate agent Tim Malone. But on Tuesday (Jan. 20), she followed up with, “I purposely wrote it that way b/c I knew that would be the only way to get the c—k suckas to post about it. They would’ve all collectively ignored the despicable behavior displayed by Lemon head.”
In addition to firing back at the DOJ, Lemon has also directly responded to Minaj’s comments about him, dismissing her as someone who “does not understand journalism and is weighing in on matters that are above her capacity” in a statement to TMZ. The hip-hop hitmaker has come under fire several times in recent months for her support of Trump and MAGA policies, as well as her appearance at a Turning Point USA event with Erika Kirk in December.
Tensions in Minneapolis have been fraught since ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good during an immigration enforcement operation in the city. The Trump administration and DHS have insisted that Ross was acting in self-defense, fearing that Good had been trying to run him over with her car; footage from multiple angles of the incident, however, showed that the Minnesotan had been attempting to steer her vehicle away from the confrontation.
The protestors Lemon interviewed cited Good’s death as a key reason they were stopping the church service on Sunday, with one woman saying, “Enough is enough.”
Trump, however, expressed his feelings toward the protestors on Monday by sharing a screenshot of a Truth Social post calling for Lemon to serve a prison sentence. also demanded that Lemon be held to the same standard as a “small group of elderly ladies [who] were protesting at an abortion clinic and were given 40 years in prison,” but it is unclear what that is in reference to.
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