Highlights from Don Lemon’s indictment

 The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America isn’t complicated:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

We all understand the First Amendment, but clearly, the left does not. Yes, there is freedom of the press, but that comes after the religion clause. If you use your press freedoms to aid and abet the interruption of church services, well, you should be in a heap of trouble—and it appears Don Lemon is, in fact, in a heap of trouble.

Now, we can’t get over our skis on this thing, as was so ably explained to us yesterday in these pages, but we can hope. The indictment is damning.

Count 1 (18 U.S.C. § 241) is the conspiracy charge, a conspiracy against rights. It’s a felony charge that Don Lemon engaged in a “conspiracy against the right of religious freedom at a place of worship.”

Count 2 (18 U.S.C. § 248) is the so-called FACE Act violation. The Democrats know that the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act protects abortions, but they forget that it includes a place of worship provision. This is a felony charge that Don Lemon did “injure, intimidate, and interfere with exercise of right of religious freedom at place worship.”

For openers, the indictment alleges that Lemon met the group of 30 or so co-conspirators for a “pre-op” planning session in which the leaders of the group “provided instruction on how the operation would be conducted once they arrived at the church.” Later that morning, Don Lemon “began live-streaming” and “explained to his audience” he was with a group about to perform a “resistance” operation, but he did not mention that it was in church. He kept that part secret. That decision on his part, the government alleges, was an “overt act” in furtherance of the conspiracy. (Overt Act #5).

As someone on X observed, if it’s okay for Don Lemon to disrupt church services and physically block parishioners trying to exit while trying to “educate” them on immigration law, then it’s okay for a pro-lifer to enter an abortion clinic and intimidate and harass the pregnant patients there waiting for their abortions while trying to “educate” them on the baby they’re carrying. Of course, we would never do that, but that’s the flip side of this coin.

So let’s be clear where his mind is. He doesn’t say “they” are about to do this thing. He says “we.” Don Lemon in his own words:

And what did he do?

Here are some highlights from the indictment that are very damning indeed:

Lemon, in his own words, knew what the protesters were going to do, and agreed that “traumatic and uncomfortable” was exactly what these white (as he observed later in an interview) parishioners, coming from an “entitled” place of “white supremacy,” needed to experience. I sincerely hope they add a hate crime to this thing. I’m not fond of “hate crime” laws as a general matter, but if we got ‘em, we should use ‘em.

You can’t go into a church and “disrupt” services. That’s flat-out illegal. And he knew from the pre-op meeting that’s exactly what they (“we”) were going to do. And it stopped being him just being a “journalist” when he did the following:

That’s a big no. It’s one thing to stick a microphone in somebody’s face. But to physically obstruct a terrified parishioner? That’s criminal.

As for Count 2, I’ll just let the indictment speak for itself:

(They’re basically saying everything we’ve already alleged in Count 1 applies to Count 2, too.)

Don Lemon is in trouble. At the very least it’s expensive trouble. His lawyer ain’t cheap.

Oh well.

(Note from Andrea: Regarding Don Lemon’s problem with “entitled” white people and their “supremacist” yearnings, that doesn’t seem to extend to his “husband,” the very white Tim Malone. As others have noted, a lot of these race hustlers have white spouses.)

M. Walter blogs at www.mwalterwriter.com.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/highlights_from_don_lemon_s_indictment.html