Don Lemon Accuses Justice Dept. of Vindictive Prosecution in Church Protest Case

Lawyers for the former CNN anchor asked a judge to throw out the case, saying prosecutors had “acted on the president’s animus by filing unprecedented charges against a journalist for doing his job.”Don Lemon, center, outside court in St. Paul, Minn., in February. “The record could not be more clear that Mr. Lemon has been a persistent target of President Trump’s ire before the events in Minnesota,” his lawyers wrote.