Minnesota Federal Prosecutor Joins Don Lemon’s Defense Weeks After Quitting
A former federal prosecutor who recently resigned from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office has joined Don Lemon’s defense team, court records show. Joseph Thompson will represent Lemon alongside Abbe Lowell, a defense…
A former federal prosecutor who recently resigned from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office has joined Don Lemon’s defense team, court records show.
Joseph Thompson will represent Lemon alongside Abbe Lowell, a defense attorney who has represented prominent Democrats like New York Attorney General Letitia James and Hunter Biden, according to a Tuesday court filing.
Lemon was indicted in January under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) and Ku Klux Klan Acts for live-streaming himself alongside anti-ICE protesters disrupting a St. Paul, Minnesota church service. He was arrested in Los Angeles, California, though he defended his actions at the church as an “act of journalism.”
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon wrote on X Jan. 18 that the First Amendment does not “protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service.”
Thompson, who President Donald Trump at one point named