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IHIP News: More Leftists SUPPRESSED Online As Hasan Piker Gets BANNED and Nick Fuentes HUMILIATED!
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I've Had It Podcast • Jan 30, 2026

IHIP News: More Leftists SUPPRESSED Online As Hasan Piker Gets BANNED and Nick Fuentes HUMILIATED!

Emergency Press Conference in Minn. Denounces Arrest of Black Activists and Journalists
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BreakThrough News Video • Jan 30, 2026

Emergency Press Conference in Minn. Denounces Arrest of Black Activists and Journalists

Don Lemon’s Arrest Escalates DOJ Crackdown on Black Journalists and Activists
Mother Jones • Jan 30, 2026

Don Lemon’s Arrest Escalates DOJ Crackdown on Black Journalists and Activists

Don Lemon, the prominent journalist and former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents Thursday in Los Angeles on charges that he violated a law while reporting on a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month.  The saga represents a startling, if not new, turn in the Trump administration’s attacks on […]

Trump’s Agents Arrested Don Lemon. Then the Story Got Even Darker.
New Republic • Jan 30, 2026

Trump’s Agents Arrested Don Lemon. Then the Story Got Even Darker.

In what appears to be a major escalation, President Trump’s federal agents arrested journalist Don Lemon on Thursday night, his lawyer confirmed in a statement. As of now, the details pertaining to the arrest are fuzzy, but the charge appears to be that he violated federal law while covering an anti-ICE protest.This saga began on January 18, when protesters interrupted a service in a St. Paul church by chanting against ICE. Lemon covered the event: Video shows him interviewing the pastor, who called the protests “shameful.” What’s odd about this is that a magistrate judge refused earlier this month to approve a criminal complaint against Lemon, and this was subsequently rejected by an appeals court, as well. But now the story is getting even darker. The Justice Department went to a grand jury to get an indictment, according to a source familiar with the situation. Lemon’s arrest was executed after 11 p.m. on Thursday night at his hotel in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammys, the source continues, adding: “This appears to be about maximum humiliation.”What’s more, Bondi herself just tweeted that this arrest was carried out “at my direction,” without explaining the charges. That, plus the odd, abrupt circumstances of the apprehension, strongly suggests that this is being carried out as a show arrest—the equivalent of a show trial—to excite and titillate Trump and MAGA.Remember, not long after the protest at the church, Trump raged at Lemon as a “loser and a lightweight” and absurdly claimed that heroic ICE agents are getting “abused by people like Don Lemon,” who is a critic of ICE. This disgusting Trump outburst, of course, greatly excited MAGA media. Bondi appears to be arresting a journalist for the express purpose of exciting them further.While it was overlooked at the time, the magistrate judge’s refusal to approve the criminal complaint against Lemon reportedly left Bondi “furious,” with the Justice Department privately vowing to find other ways to target the journalist. The case against Lemon looks extremely weak: MS NOW just posted footage of Lemon outside the church protest, saying explicitly, “I’m just chronicling. I’m not with the group.” Lemon’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, just said in a statement that Lemon was doing “constitutionally protected work” and slammed the arrest as an “unprecedented attack on the First Amendment.”On top of all that, as David Kurtz notes, the appeals court judge who ruled against the administration sharply dismissed the notion that anything criminal had taken place.Yet the failure to get an arrest greenlighted by the courts apparently drove the decision to go to a grand jury to secure an indictment—which is unusual. “It is highly irregular to seek an indictment from a grand jury after a magistrate judge—and an appellate court—denied an arrest warrant,” Matthew Seligman, a legal scholar at Stanford Law School, told me. “A prosecutor who was faithful to the law and the facts would adhere to the magistrate’s determination and not try to go around the court.”All this strongly suggests “a politically motivated prosecution,” Seligman said, adding that by ignoring the magistrate judge’s ruling, Trump and Bondi are demonstrating that they “don’t care about the law and don’t care about the facts. They care about prosecuting their enemies.”This saga underscores a few realities. First, it’s very likely that Trumpworld sees this as a way to extract pain from Lemon, in the form of money and time. “They probably don’t have any expectation that this prosecution will stick,” Seligman said. “But they do know they will put Don Lemon through the grinder in the meantime.”Second, the idea that Trump is “pivoting” or “de-escalating” his ICE crackdown is an utter farce. Trump’s brain trust surely knows that arresting a journalist—one who was covering ICE protests, no less—is only going to exacerbate matters in a big way.Indeed, one suspects that this is a key reason this arrest is happening right now. Someone around Trump wants to send the message—either to excite the MAGA base, which is upset about Trump’s supposed deescalation, or to chill protest and further journalistic activity, or both—that Trump isn’t backing down in the slightest.Finally, this is a clear example of Trump’s authoritarian tendencies being enabled by a supine Republican Congress. Ordinarily, this kind of apparent corruption would, in theory, be subject to the scrutiny of the judiciary committees in the House and Senate. Recall that Trump sent out a message on social media—which he may have thought was private—urging Bondi to prosecute more of his enemies. Did Trump similarly give a direct order to Bondi to carry out this prosecution of Lemon? Did Stephen Miller order it?Also note that MS NOW’s Carol Leonnig is reporting that career prosecutors in Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in the prosecution of Lemon. All this is crying out for oversight: Congress should determine who ordered this arrest to go forward, what the rationale was, why prosecutors objected, why their objections were ignored, and how all this fits into the administration’s broader use of state power to chill journalistic scrutiny of Trump’s authoritarian police state crackdown on American cities.“The federal government prosecuting journalists for their reporting is extremely concerning, made more so by its continued pursuit of these charges after a magistrate judge refused to sign off on the arrest warrant and over the reported objections of career prosecutors,” said ACLU attorney Esha Bhandari.The GOP Congress won’t do this work, of course. But guess what: A Democratic-controlled House can. And just like other of Trump’s ham-handed efforts to prosecute enemies, one suspects this one will backfire, and very spectacularly at that.

Don Lemon ARRESTED, Tulsi Election Scheme, Nicki Minaj Pivots Right w/ Touré
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Breaking Points • Jan 30, 2026

Don Lemon ARRESTED, Tulsi Election Scheme, Nicki Minaj Pivots Right w/ Touré

White House Celebrates Don Lemon’s Arrest With Twisted Emoji Choice
New Republic • Jan 30, 2026

White House Celebrates Don Lemon’s Arrest With Twisted Emoji Choice

The White House is gloating about the arrest of journalist Don Lemon, posting a picture of the former CNN correspondent with the message, “When life gives you lemons” and a chains emoji on X Friday morning. Boasting about a Black journalist’s arrest with a chains emoji was certainly a choice, evoking racist imagery. Federal agents arrested Lemon Thursday night along with one other Black journalist, Georgia Fort, and two Black activists, Trahern Jeen Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy. All of them were connected to the anti-ICE protest at a Minneapolis church earlier this month where an ICE agent was serving as pastor. A federal magistrate judge had rejected a criminal complaint against Lemon last week, reportedly enraging Attorney General Pam Bondi.Three of the protest organizers were also arrested last week, with Bondi posting, “Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP” and the White House sharing a doctored image of one of the organizers, civil rights attorney and Minneapolis activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, supposedly crying as she was arrested.Arresting protesters and journalists is a flagrant violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution. The White House appears to be trying to intimidate anyone who opposes its racist immigration agenda—and even the journalists attempting to document it.

So Many People Ditched Melania Premiere—Including Her Son
New Republic • Jan 30, 2026

So Many People Ditched Melania Premiere—Including Her Son

Nearly a dozen people close to the Trump administration skipped out on the world premiere of Melania Trump’s new documentary, Melania—even her own son. Multiple family members were no-shows at the first lady’s big night at the Kennedy Center Thursday, including Barron Trump, Eric Trump, Lara Trump, Tiffany Trump, and Ivanka Trump. Several Trump officials—including Vice President JD Vance—and high-profile conservative influencers who were invited to the premiere also skipped, as a hot mic on the black carpet captured a staff reaction to the absences. BREAKING - Humiliating hot mic moment at the Melania premiere red carpet.NO ONE is showing up and they had to cut the feed. 🤣🤣🤣Kari Lake, Bret Baier, Kellyanne Conway, Riley Gaines, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Sean Duffy, and Peter Navarro all no-showed! pic.twitter.com/uiV7l0156z— DonkConnects ♻️™ (@donkoclock) January 30, 2026“Who didn’t show on the red carpet? Kari Lake, she didn’t show. Brett Baier, Kellyanne Conway, Riley Gaines, Benny Johnson … [Homeland Security Secretary Kristi] Noem didn’t show. Bondi didn’t show, weird,” staff said. They also noted that FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi weren’t there, although reports reveal they eventually showed up. So who actually showed up to watch this documentary? Nicki Minaj was there, as was Trump lawyer Alina Habba, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and second lady Usha Vance. Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Saudi royalty, and Mike Tyson stopped by a White House premiere of the documentary last weekend. The lack of enthusiasm from even the most loyal members of the Trump administration speaks to how useless and inopportune this documentary is. No one cares about Melania, not even the people who get paid to.  

Feds Arrest 4 Black People—Including Don Lemon—Over ICE Protest
New Republic • Jan 30, 2026

Feds Arrest 4 Black People—Including Don Lemon—Over ICE Protest

Federal agents arrested two Black journalists—Don Lemon and independent Minnesota journalist Georgia Fort—and two Black activists on Thursday night. “At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote. “More details soon.”Each person arrested was connected to an anti-ICE protest at a church in St. Paul earlier this month. It is unclear what they will be charged with, and it appears they are being targeted for their First Amendment rights. “Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards,” a statement from Lemon’s lawyer read. “Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done … Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case. This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.” The Justice Department announced that they would “pursue charges” against Lemon just over a week ago. “Don Lemon himself has come out and said he knew exactly what was going to happen inside that facility,”  Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said on ‘The Benny Show’ earlier this month. “He went into the facility, and then he began — quote, unquote — ‘committing journalism,’ as if that’s sort of a shield from being a part, an embedded part, of a criminal conspiracy. It isn’t.”Fort was detained in her home in St. Paul, Minnesota. “I wanted to alert the public that agents are at my door right now, they’re saying that they were able to go before a grand jury … and that they have a warrant for my arrest,” Fort said in a Facebook live video before being arrested.“As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago, and now I’m being arrested for that,” she added. “It’s hard to understand how we have a Constitution, constitutional rights, when we can just be arrested for being a member of the press.”This story has been updated.

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