Don Lemon is doubling down after being caught red-handed conspiring with anti-ICE radicals who raided a Sunday church service in St. Paul, casting blame on the parishioners whom he labeled “entitled” and accusing them of “white supremacy.”
“I think people who are in religious groups like that — it’s not the type of Christianity that I practice — but I think they’re entitled, and that entitlement comes from white supremacy,” Lemon said of Minnesota’s Cities Church in a jaw-dropping interview with lefty “I’ve Had It” podcaster Jennifer Welch.
“They think this country was built for them, that it’s a Christian country.”
In the wake of the protest that saw churchgoers harassed and stalked into the streets, the Justice Department said Lemon was “on notice” for joining the mob.
Harmeet Dhillon, DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, said on X that her division was investigating “potential violations of the federal FACE Act” for “desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers” — and left the door open for Lemon to be probed.
The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, is a 1994 law that prohibits interfering with people seeking reproductive health services or exercising religious freedom at a house of worship.
Lemon dismissed Dhillon’s overtures as “an intimidation tactic,” and in a moment of self-aggrandizement, also groused that he was “singled out” because of his high profile.
“I said I don’t understand how I became the face of it when I was a journalist. I do understand that,” he said without a hint of shame.
“I’m the biggest name there.”
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He claimed his producers told him, “Don, you’re a gay black man in America, and you have a platform. And you’re the biggest name. Of course you’re going to be the person they single out,” he said, allegedly quoting a staffer of “The Don Lemon Show.”
“And they’re gonna make the headline because it plays to their base. And their base is full of racist, bigoted homophobes,” he said of media coverage critical of the church storming.
Lemon received widespread criticism for livestreaming the church takeover, and for hiding behind the First Amendment as a journalist despite a video he filmed of himself admitting he knew of the anti-ICE mob’s plans in advance.
Lemon did not respond to a message from The Post seeking comment.
