Ex-CNN news anchor Don Lemon quoted the Bible as he broke his silence after his arrest for allegedly storming a church during an anti-ICE demonstration claiming, “The truth shall set you free.”
“The free press does not exist to reassure the nation. It exists to reveal it to itself,” he said in a Substack post Saturday.
In a lengthy, scripture-laced essay invoking James Baldwin, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the “Black prophetic tradition,” Lemon soured on his Friday arrest after a judge cut him loose with no bail.
Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles early Friday over the anti-ICE protest that stormed a Minneapolis church during Sunday service, according to his attorney and US Attorney General Pamela Bondi.
The news anchor-turned-political pundit attended his hearing with his husband, where a judge stroked his ego as one of the city’s most famous figures before letting him go without bail — despite the prosecutor’s $100,000 request.
In his ranting post, Lemon defended his actions and arrests, writing, that the “government decided that my work as a journalist was not protected speech, but punishable.”