Don Lemon, Jimmy Kimmel Fumble Basic Facts About Judicial System
Former CNN host Don Lemon and late comedian Jimmy Kimmel did not once acknowledge that a grand jury in Minnesota found probable cause to bring charges against Lemon and other co-defendants. Lemon is being federally…
Former CNN host Don Lemon and late comedian Jimmy Kimmel did not once acknowledge that a grand jury in Minnesota found probable cause to bring charges against Lemon and other co-defendants.
Lemon is being federally charged with conspiracy against rights under the Ku Klux Klan act and violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for disrupting a church service with anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 18. Both Lemon and Kimmel omitted key details about the grand jury’s findings and implied that the Department of Justice (DOJ) selectively found a group of biased individuals who were “willing” to bring charges against Lemon.
“And so then the DOJ goes around and tries to find and correct me if I have it is wrong,some judges to charge you and the judges say, ‘no, we’re not going to do that’ … And then they find a grand jury. And how does do you know? Are you familiar with how that happens? Like how do they find this group of people who are willing to bring charges against you?” Kimmel said.
“I don’t know. I’m not that astute with it, but at least don’t know the process that well becauseI’m not an attorney,” Lemon said. “But, you know, I assume that they, you know, they figure out who the folks are and theysend it to them and then they write up the indictment as to what they are, you know,what they want charged and then they give it to them.But you can write whatever you want to an indictment, as I’ve been doing some research,you can say whatever you want. And for, you know, even if you lie about it, prosecutors can pretty much say what theywant with impunity, with impunity, and they don’t face any sort of consequences.”
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