LEADER JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON ARREST OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST DON LEMON

Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement: 

The Trump administration’s arrest of Don Lemon and other journalists is a disgraceful affront to the First Amendment and a corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system. Don is the most recent target of the ongoing attacks by Donald Trump and his sycophants on those who challenge the administration and refuse to bend the knee to their extremism. Pam Bondi and her Department of Justice have chosen to spend taxpayer dollars persecuting law-abiding journalists reporting on DHS brutality in Minnesota instead of investigating the masked thugs who killed two American citizens in cold blood.

There is zero basis to arrest Don Lemon, and he should be freed immediately. The illegitimate extremists in the Trump administration will all be held accountable for their crimes against the Constitution. America will not be intimidated.