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The Don Lemon Show

Lemon LIVE at 5 | Donald Trump & MAGA Are In Panic Mode!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Tonight we’re breaking down the continuing fallout after the killing of Alex Pretti by a federal Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis. The MAGA spin machine is in panic mode, trying to justify and rewrite the story, but what we all saw on camera isn’t lining up with what they’re pushing. This isn’t just political damage control, it’s a desperate attempt to defend a pattern of violence that’s eroding trust and sparking nationwide protest. Join Don live as he breaks down the outrage, the lies, and what this means for accountability, because this story isn’t going away, and neither should the demand for truth. 🍋 This episode is brought to you by Lean. Let's get you started with 20% off and free rush shipping so you can add LEAN to you healthy diet and exercise plan. Visit https://TAKELEAN.com and enter LEMON for your discount. This episode is sponsored by Incogni. Go to https://incogni.com/donlemon and use code donlemon for 60% off. Incogni HELPS wipe yourself from the Internet — they can’t harm you if they can’t find you. Click the link below to claim your 60% off and get your personal data off the market! Erase yourself from the internet 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 BiOptimizers. Go to https://bioptimizers.com/donlemon and use my exclusive code DON15 to get up to 35% off select Magnesium Breakthrough ritual bundles through January 31st. And don’t worry—you can still use my code DON15 for 15% off your purchase in the coming months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, welcome to the Don Lemon Show. Good evening to you. The reason our guest is up right away is because we want to get as much of Rick Wilson as possible. Rick, I know that you and I on these particular issues often have very similar stances and ideas and opinions and views on this one. I'll save my ire because I use so many F bombs this morning.

0:39.2

I think that my audience is probably,

0:40.9

it is outrageous.

0:43.2

Luckily, I am the National Reservoir.

0:45.0

I'm the strategic reserve of F bombs for the country.

0:47.7

It just keeps getting worse.

0:50.7

Welcome, Rick Wilson.

0:51.7

By the way, congratulations on your new marriage.

0:53.9

Very happy for you newly

0:55.1

wed you very much it was delightful as you saw what happened this weekend and then the response

1:03.1

for the from the administration as it unfolds were you as outraged and angry as I was and am.

1:12.7

Don, I, I, you know, I've tried to teach myself for the last decade that as low as they go,

1:20.0

they can always go lower.

1:21.5

But the fact that this wasn't even a video that was, there wasn't even a shadow of a doubt. He did not have a gun in his hand.

1:30.2

They mobbed him, pepper sprayed him, knocked him down, took the gun that was legally being carried in his, in his holster, in his trousers, and then shot him eight times in the back.

1:43.7

And then sat there, instead of giving him CPR, the bullet holes and high-fived each other and thought this like hey we're heroes and this administration that immediately rolls out domestic terrorists domestic terrorists everything we know about Alex Preddy has made it even harder to take that this was a good man, that this was a man who did good work in his community that, that was protecting someone when this occurred.

2:11.8

And it is it's it's both I was both enraged and heartbroken by this story. And we have to look at it in the eye and call it what it is.

2:20.0

This is a public execution.

2:22.5

This is a public execution by American secret police.

2:26.2

And I, I, I, I, there's nothing this administration can do right now to make up for this at all, except take every one of these

2:36.4

people out of every American city. They are, they're not about immigration anymore. They're about

2:40.0

abusing and killing American citizens. Yep. That's what they're about. And I don't know what

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