Jesse Watters Spells Out The Case on Don Lemon, Says 'He Was In On The Crime'
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Jesse Watters Spells Out The Case on Don Lemon, Says 'He Was In On The Crime'

Last Friday morning, former CNN Anchor Don Lemon was arrested along with three others, in connection with the January 18th anti-ICE attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was later charged with conspiracy to deprive rights and violation of the FACE Act, and was released without bail. As expected the liberal media, led by his former CNN colleagues, immediately came to Lemon's defense, portraying the arrest as vindictive, and a violation of the First Amendment. But that night on Fox, Jesse Watters Primetime laid out a strong case against Lemon. Lemon claims that he was acting as a journalist in covering the protest at the Church. Watters disputed that with this description: "Lemon joined a rowdy mob that busted into Sunday mass, trapped the congregation in the pews, and started threatening them, screaming at them, intimidating them. They told kids their parents would burn in hell." And Watters was just getting started. WATTERS: ..Not a single journalist has ever done this. Why? Because it's illegal and despicable... Journalists can't commit crimes and get off because they filmed it. You can't break into someone's house and interview the owner while your crew steals the furniture. Don Lemon wasn't even a reporter documenting a protest, that spontaneously turned into a riot. He was in on the crime. Lemon met up with the mob ahead of time. He knew the target. And admitted he was in on the operation. Shutting down a Church service was the goal. Lemon knew it. It was premeditated. Watters then played a clip of Lemon from just before the attack on the Church. LEMON: They're getting the operation together...This is an operation that's a secret, that they invited folks out, I can't tell you what's going to happen but you can watch it live unfold here on the Don Lemon Show. The reason they have so many white people here is because they need allies... I turned our camera off because they are giving some critical information here, but there we go, everybody's ready to go. Then Watters asked the obvious, "When does a journalist turn off their cameras? His job is to give us critical information, not hide it. He's admitting he's conspiring to conceal evidence of a crime."  He even played a clip of CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter, who made this surprising admission: "But he clearly knew something was taking place that day with the protesters. He told his viewers on YouTube to stay tuned, because there was something about to happen." Watters then continued making his case vs Lemon. WATTERS: At one point when Lemon was inside the Church he said he was surprised that the cops hadn't shown up yet, acknowledging that he knew it was against the law. ..He was encouraging and supporting the reprehensible behavior, and at one point thanked the ringleader. Lemon wasn't an independent journalist, he was on their team. At that point Watters played a clip of someone in the pre-invasion group assuring a man who seemed to be in charge, that Lemon was "very much on our team.", and then another clip of Lemon serving up refreshments to that group, asking, "who wants some coffee." Watters would soon gave his closing argument. WATTERS: The freedom to worship is nearly absolute in America. If you can burst into houses of worship and start threatening people America is over... . And journalists don't have a right to shut down Church services. No one has that right. Being a journalist doesn't put you above the law. I know that's what many people in the news think.. I know Don Lemon is probably going to say he was targeted because he was black or he was gay but being black or being gay doesn't put you above the law either." Watters then pointed out that Lemon is innocent until proven guilty. Very true. But after this presentation, Lemon should be thankful that Jesse Watters isn't a member of the prosecution.