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The Department of Justice's attempt to prosecute a journalist blew up after its own witness' testimony, according to a new report on Friday.

The Trump DOJ indicted journalist Georgia Fort earlier this year for a case stemming from coverage of the anti-ICE protests that interrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in Minnesota. It's the same case in which former CNN journalist Don Lemon was arrested and indicted.

According to a blog post from Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel, the DOJ's case against Fort has started to fall apart after grand jury transcripts revealed witness testimony. Wheeler suggested that the witness could even have been the Cities Church pastor whom the DOJ said felt threatened by Fort....

A high-profile ex-CNN anchor singled out the insider said to be the "biggest leaker" in the Trump White House.

Don Lemon said during an interview with Legal AF host Michael Popok that Vice President "J.D. Vance is like the biggest leaker of them all" in the White House based on what "many people have said and according to some of the reporting."

Lemon and Popok were talking about Trump's efforts to hunt down the insider who leaked details of a "freakout" in the Situation Room over the Epstein files. The freakout is detailed in the forthcoming book Regime Change by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan....

A longtime adversary of President Donald Trump has a plan for a key group to take away what Trump craves the most — attention.

EX-CNN journalist Jim Acosta, who was targeted by Trump during his first administration, described in an interview with MS NOW what it might take for Trump to stop attacking the media, after the arrest of independent journalists former CNN anchor Don Lemon, Georgia Fort and several others who were targeted by the Department of Justice last week.

Acosta signaled that Trump's deep concern over the fate of the midterm elections in November has fueled his latest attacks on the press. ...

President Donald Trump's revenge effort against independent journalist and former CNN host Don Lemon didn't go off the way he had hoped — and ultimately backfired — as "MAGA created a martyr," an analyst wrote Monday.

Salon's Sophia Tesfaye described how Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi has an "abysmal" record of going after Trump enemies and how, despite Trump's attempts to publicly humiliate Lemon, he gave the longtime journalist "a victory lap."

Don Lemon was arrested on federal charges related to his coverage of an anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota on January 18. Prosecutors alleged he interfered with law enforcement operations. He was freed from custody on Friday....

A former CNN anchor on Tuesday slammed President Donald Trump's inner circle, saying they are "too scared" to face his cognitive decline and that "the man has lost it."

On his podcast, former CNN anchor Don Lemon pointed to the 79-year-old president's "obvious" decline amid the country's current troubles and responded to the president's announcement Monday that he took a cognitive test at Walter Reed Medical Center, The Daily Beast reports. The test Trump referred to is a cognitive evaluation to screen for dementia called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

"You ever look at someone and see that they ain’t all there, right?” Lemon said. “They ain’t all there anymore. But everybody around them is too scared to say it out loud. That’s where we are with Donald Trump.”...

Washington (AFP) - Elon Musk suggested his use of drugs benefits Tesla investors in an interview released Monday, saying he takes prescribed ketamine to treat his "negative frame of mind." The 52-year-old tycoon confirmed he takes the anesthetic -- typically used for pain management and to treat depression -- following reports in the US media that his drug use was spooking investors. “Ketamine is helpful for getting one outside out of a negative frame of mind," Musk told former CNN host Don Lemon in an interview published on social media on Monday.  Asked if his ketamine use could impact inves......