Trump Attacks Journalism: Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Arrested. Plus: More Epstein Files Drop.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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Daily News, Veteran, News, Politics, News Commentary, National Security

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This rapid fire episode is an intense real‑time situation report from Times Square on one of the wildest Fridays of 2026 so far. Paul Rieckhoff digs into the federal arrest of Don Lemon and Minnesota journalist Georgia Fort after church protests, and why Trump’s push to criminalize journalism and protest crosses a dangerous new line in his war on the free press—making clear that if they can be targeted, so can any podcaster, reporter, or citizen who dares to speak out.

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0:00.0	Here's something I really want to talk about.
0:02.0	A lot of folks are ripping into the legal arguments and the indictment.
0:05.0	Here's the bigger picture.
0:07.0	Don Lemon's in jail.
0:08.0	And Donald Trump is not playing by your rules.
0:11.0	He doesn't care about your norms.
0:13.0	He doesn't care about your laws.
0:15.0	He is all gas, no breaks. Welcome to Independent Americans. Welcome to episode 429. I'm your host, Paul Reichoff. I am coming to you from
0:40.5	New York City, USA. I am in Times Square, where I just came off the air from recording a conversation
0:47.4	with Katie Turr on MS. Now, as the news continues to break, because it is a wild and funky and fierce
0:54.0	Friday. It is Friday, January 30th.
0:58.0	We are almost done with January, and the weather is cold, cold, so damn cold. As Greenland's
1:05.6	revenge continues, Greenland is getting back at us for messing with them by inflicting the worst cold some of us have ever seen.
1:12.6	And because 2026 is not crazy enough already, now we got a bomb cyclone.
1:18.6	Yeah, a bomb cyclone. Our bombogenesis might bring a few inches of snow here in New York City,
1:24.6	but it's going to be cold as hell, which is what most of January
1:29.2	has felt like, because the news and the chaos and the politics continues to come at you,
1:34.6	and I'm going to try to warm you up today, and I do have some somewhat disappointing news.
1:39.1	Our scheduled guests, Jesse, the body, the governor, Ventura cannot be with us today.
1:45.0	But for good reason.
1:46.5	As a testament to who Jesse is, they notified us late last night that Jesse had to do a fundraiser in honor of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
1:56.6	He's at that fundraiser right now instead of being with us, but he promises to be with us soon,
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