BREAKING: Don Lemon Pleads NOT GUILTY!

The Don Lemon Show

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 240 minutes

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Today we’re bringing you an extended live stream. Don is in court, and we’ll have coverage throughout the day with real-time updates, analysis, and reactions from friends of the show. This case goes far beyond one journalist, it’s about the freedom of the press, the right to report on protests, and whether the government can intimidate members of the media for doing their jobs. 🍋 This episode is brought to you Wildgrain. Right now, Wildgrain is offering our listeners $30 off your first box - PLUS free Croissants for life - when you go to https://Wildgrain.com/LEMON to start your subscription today. This episode is sponsored by Graza. Take your food to the next level with Graza. Visit https://graza.co/LEMON and use promo code LEMON today for 20% off your first order! This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at https://SHOPIFY.COM/lemon This episode is sponsored by MSI. Text LEMON to 511511, or go to https://MSIUnitedStates.org. A gift of $39 is enough to give 6 women contraception for a year! Think of that. Please help them out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to the Don Lemon show at a special time. We are coming to you with live
0:24.7	coverage outside of a federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota, where our host, our friend,
0:32.7	our favorite independent journalist, is going to be arraigned today. They came up with some charges.
0:38.9	We'll talk to you about what those are, but the crime is really being accused of is journalism.
0:44.8	So I am Monique Presley, friend of the show, host of the Monique Presley show on my channel here
0:50.5	on YouTube. But today, I am in as guest host to be with you, at least through the
0:55.8	first hour, where we discuss how we got here, what's happening right now in Minnesota,
1:03.2	where Don did his live show this morning. I was with you for hot topics, but now he is
1:08.4	preparing to be arraigned. What is an arraignment even? What does any of it mean?
1:14.6	And as I said, how did we get here? But first, welcome Lemon Nation. Welcome, Lemonheads. Welcome,
1:23.8	Lemon Legends. Welcome everybody who regularly supports Don's channel and supports
1:29.2	his work.
1:30.2	We thank you for joining us not just today, but so many days where we know you count on Don
1:36.4	and count on this channel in order to get the best information, the experts, the news that
1:43.9	you need and the information that matters.
1:48.0	On January 18th, which was a Sunday in Minnesota, there was what's called a pop-up protest
1:57.2	where a group of protesters that was headed by Nekima Levy Armstrong has for years
2:04.2	been actively protesting, popping up different places and protesting actions in the Minnesota
2:10.1	area around St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2:13.6	They held a pop-up protest that day, which Don Lemon and Georgia Fort as
2:18.5	journalism learned of and covered.
2:22.4	We know that what they were doing was covering it as journalists because you
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