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Does the KKK count in this discussion?

You too codger.

Who, Pops?

Who?

Sadly, no. His fame, infamy or notoriety does not go beyond this low rent forum.

Right now...MS NOW special on Jack Smith's testimony with Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell, Stephanie Rule and others...

Not surprised that the charges against Lemon were rejected by the federal magistrate judge. And what law or laws did Lemon break? Lemon did not help organize or lead the mob into the church. He was simply acting a reporter trying to cover this protest and get an interview with one of the pastors.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/don-lemon-prosecution-justice-department-00741629 Judge rejects criminal charge against journalist Don Lemon over church protest Federal prosecutors sought to charge former CNN journalist Don Lemon in connection with an anti-immigration-enforcement protest that disrupted services at a Minnesota church Sunday, but a magistrate judge declined to approve the charge, two people familiar with the development said. Lemon’s name appeared among eight defendants in a federal court docket reviewed by POLITICO Thursday afternoon. However, a short time later the case disappeared altogether from the public docket. In social media posts, Attorney General Pam Bondi did not mention Lemon, but named three other people arrested Thursday over the protest at Cities Church in St. Paul: Nekima Levy Armstrong, William Kelly and Chauntyll Allen, a member of the St. Paul School Board. “Our nation was settled and founded by people fleeing religious persecution,” Bondi wrote in an X post quickly reposted by the White House. “Religious freedom is the bedrock of this country. We will protect our pastors. We will protect our churches. We will protect Americans of faith.” The people who described the rejected prosecution of Lemon were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. One said Bondi is “enraged at the magistrate judge’s decision.” A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment or to detail the charges against those arrested. A spokesperson for the U.S. District Court in Minnesota said Levy Armstrong and Allen appeared in court Thursday afternoon. Federal courts don’t typically release the names of proposed defendants when prosecutors fail to win approval for a criminal complaint. A spokesperson for Lemon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In one video he posted online from the protest, Lemon said: “We’re not part of the activists, but we’re here just reporting on them.”

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2014417410548248949 (video clip at link) Jack Smith: "The people who assaulted police officers and were convicted after trial in my view and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison are dangerous to their community. Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again ... I don't understand why you mass pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will."

That was then and this is now.