Don Lemon Responds to Being Arrested and Put On Trump’s “Enemies List”
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Tim Miller moderated a conversation with Don Lemon at the 2026 New Orleans Book Festival. They talked about Lemon’s arrest and time in custody and the broader crackdown on Trump critics. They also discussed the war in Iran, and the failures of the mainstream media during Trump's second term.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It's Tim Moore from the Bullwark. Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of interviewing Don Lemon here in New Orleans. I adopted home. He's from Louisiana. We were in the basketball arena at Tulane and had a great crowd for 9 a.m. hard to get up in 9 a.m. in Louisiana. And I got to see him for the first time since the Trump regime |
| 0:21.9 | targeted him. We talked about that. I didn't really know the full back story about how he was |
| 0:31.1 | detained and arrested, what happened to him when he was being held. So we got into all of that. |
| 0:38.2 | We also talked about independent media. |
| 0:39.9 | You should go check him out if you haven't over on his YouTube feed and talked about, you know, news of the day. |
| 0:45.3 | It got a little heavy at some point. |
| 0:46.7 | So I also decided we needed to do some little lighter fare, you know, have some jokes for the people. |
| 0:52.9 | So I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:54.1 | It was really great. |
| 0:54.8 | Shout out to Cheryl Landrieu, who puts on this festival every year here in New Orleans and for letting us repurpose this for y'all. |
| 1:05.6 | So stick around for me and Don Lemon. |
| 1:17.3 | Out of town. |
| 1:18.5 | How many y'all are from out of town? |
| 1:20.4 | What in the hell are you doing? |
| 1:21.8 | They're all here for Tim. |
| 1:23.6 | Look at all the people who came to see us. |
| 1:25.3 | You did not do New Orleans correct if you're in from out of town |
| 1:26.5 | and you're at this panel at 9 a.m. I'm sorry. You got to fix that tonight. Good morning |
| 1:32.3 | How are you? Wait, good morning. Yes. How many lemon heads in the house? |
| 1:39.3 | Elimination, brother. Thanks for doing this, Tim. Why didn't you bring me any swag? I could get you some swag. I know some people. I'd like some swag. We're gonna start with this. Let's pull up the pants. Do you have an ankle bracelet? |
| 1:54.0 | Ankle monitor? No, all right. That's a free man right there. Not that I know of, but I did, I did, you know, I lotion. |
| 2:02.6 | That is a free man. |
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