Jussie Smollett’s Don Lemon’s lead defense attorney, Abbe Lowell, sat for an interview with MS Now host Jen Psaki on Friday, where he laughably claimed that Don Lemon thought he was being attacked by right-wingers when federal agents were “stalking” him.
“Don thought he was being mugged because he has been controversial, and he actually thought some crazy people on the right might be stalking him,” he said.
The disgraced ex-CNN host was taken into custody last week after storming a Minneapolis church and harassing churchgoers with deranged anti-ICE activists last month. He was charged with 18 USC 241, Conspiracy to Deprive Rights, and 18 USC 248, Violation of the FACE Act, but released without bail.
Lowell attacked the DOJ for arresting Lemon in Los Angeles, the city where he was in on Thursday, the same day the grand jury indictment was filed, claiming they “waited until he’s in Los Angeles,” as opposed to arresting him at home in New York.
“They wanted it to be terrifying. They wanted it to be intimidating. They wanted it to create fear,” he said, noting that “They waited until 11:30 at night,” when he came back from covering the Grammys, which ended at approximately 8:30 pm local time. Apparently, they should have arrested him at the Grammys while he was working. That would have been amazing.
But that’s not all they did wrong, according to Lowell. A “bevy of Agents” surrounded Lemon and arrested him, and he thought he was under attack just like Jussie Smollett claimed on that late night in the streets of Chicago.
“But they didn’t just take him away. Remember, they didn’t just stalk him in Los Angeles. They did it at 11:30 at night, so they knew that he’d have to spend a night in jail for no reason whatsoever. But they did that on purpose,” Lowell said.
Forget about the pre-dawn raids, battering rams, guns drawn, tactical gear, and countless FBI agents that were involved in the arrests of many prominent conservatives and January 6ers.
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Lowell: They didn’t do it just in the way you’re supposed to. They wanted it to be terrifying. They wanted it to be intimidating. They wanted it to create fear. So, he lives in New York, it’s not Minneapolis. He’s going to Los Angeles to do his job, which is to cover, in this case, the Grammys this weekend. They waited until he’s in Los Angeles. That’s not enough.
They waited until 11:30 at night, when he was coming back for doing what he does, in the lobby of a hotel, and not one, not two, not three, but the bevy of Agents surround and take him away. Don thought he was being mugged because he has been controversial, and he actually thought some crazy people on the right might be stalking him.
Psaki: Can I pause just for a moment because I think it’s so important for people to hear this, we just showed Georgia’s video. How many agents surrounded him in the lobby?
Lowell: I’m trying to count right now, but let’s put it this way. It’s more than the one that would have been necessary to do it the right way. And they’re— and they’re cloaked, and they’re protected and they’re armed. This is to somebody who’s not a threat, doesn’t have a criminal record, he’s not Maduro in Venezuela that you have to snap out.
You basically have heard from his attorney, and they don’t care about any of that. So, they take him away, and that’s what happened. But they didn’t just take him away. Remember, they didn’t just stalk him in Los Angeles. They did it at 11:30 at night, so they knew that he’d have to spend a night in jail for no reason whatsoever. But they did that on purpose.
Lemon has spoken out numerous times since his arrest, including on Saturday, where he vowed to get more “outspoken,” while laughing about his criminal charges and potential jail time like a madman.
Ironically, in contrast with Lowell’s claims, Lemon told his podcast audience, “I think people think like, I’m really scared. I am not, and you don’t even know the experience that I had over the last couple days. And I will talk about them at some point, and I’ll see, maybe it’s sooner than later, but we’ll see. But it wasn’t at all what I expected in many ways.” He continued, “I know that there are people who think like, oh, you know, do this, and you know that I’m gonna be locked up or whatever. I ain’t worried about that. You heard the truth, and the truth shall make you free. I ain’t even worried about that.”
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