Want Some Cheese With That Whine? Don Lemon Uses Lies To Blame Trump For Assassination Attempts

Posted • September 18, 2024: The behavior of the media after a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump continues to be almost universally deplorable. The one notable exception this week being Chris Cuomo, who actually called Trump to apologize to him and then apologized on air at News Nation. Not coincidentally, Cuomo is not employed by CNN anymore and is free to say what he thinks, not what he is told to say. The same cannot be said for Don Lemon. Oh, Lemon was also fired by the network, but CNN dangled a carrot in front of him to come back and appear on other people's shows (mainly because he is trying to sell a book that no one will buy). So, naturally, when Lemon appeared on Erin Burnett's OutFront program last night, he was back to spouting the same old Democrat lies to justify an assassin trying to take Trump's life. Don Lemon is having a breakdown on CNN, blames Donald Trump for the assassination attempt on himself.

Ugh. Really? We're doing the 'bloodbath' lie again? We're doing the 'poisoning the blood' lie again? That wasn't the only debunked lie that Lemon repeated though. Let's start with the pipe bombs. Yes, Cesar Sayoc was arrested for creating pipe bombs in 2018, but Donald Trump vowed to -- and his Justice Department DID -- prosecute Sayoc to the maximum extent of the law. Trump vowed to 'never allow political violence to take root in America.' Sayoc is in prison now and will be there for a long time. The lies got worse from there. Obviously, the biggest one is that Trump tried to 'overthrow the government' and 'incited an insurrection.' None of that is true. The weirdest part though was how Lemon tried to claim that Trump's insults, like calling Joe Biden 'Crooked Joe' or calling Kamala Harris 'Comrade Kamala' were somehow justification for an assassination attempt and the equivalent of the left claiming nearly every day that Trump is Hitler and a 'threat to democracy.'

None of the comments he listed calls for anyone to be shot, stopped, or “eliminated” though, & that’s the issue. It was all just so very pathetic. I don't get why CNN does this. Why bring back people like Lemon or Toobin? It's not like they'll say anything different from anyone else on the network. They won't boost the ratings. No one is tuning in for either of them. Well, they needed a good puppet with name recognition and since this was just one appearance they probably didn't have to pay Lemon more than a pittance (it's not as though his podcast has any viewers, so he doesn't really have any negotiating leverage). (…)

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