Don Lemon isn’t ruling out a presidential run.
The unbiased journalist stated he may run the nation higher than the present president if he had been to take workplace.
“So do I ever give it some thought?” Lemon advised Alex Wagner on “Pod Save America.” “Sure. Might it occur? Yeah, it may occur, if the appropriate alternative offered itself.”
He added, “I do know persons are going to suppose I’m loopy. That is going to be the headline, and persons are going to giggle about it: ‘I feel I may very well be president of america.’ I may positively run this nation higher than Donald Trump.”
He additionally advised Wagner that the thought wasn’t so far-fetched, utilizing former President Barack Obama for instance—”Did anyone suppose Barack Obama, as he says, ‘This man with a humorous identify, from a blended background’ that he would grow to be president?” However he admitted that there have been loads of cons to opening himself to a possibility like public workplace.
“Why would I invite that kind of much more criticism? I don’t wish to destroy my life with folks digging into all the pieces about me and marketing campaign adverts [airing] all the pieces that I’ve ever stated that appeared controversial… However I don’t even suppose folks would care about that. I’ve by no means stated that I used to be gonna seize anyone by the p—y, proper? But additionally, I’m not a white man, and the principles are totally different for me. And so similar to the principles are, I consider, sadly, are totally different for girls.”
An outspoken critic of President Trump, Lemon made headlines in January when he was arrested, together with different Black journalists, after protecting an anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis, the place demonstrators entered a church. The Division of Justice charged him below the 1994 Freedom to Entry Medical Entrances Act, or FACE Act.
For the reason that arrest, the previous CNN anchor has promised he “won’t be silenced” within the face of what many see as an intimidation tactic from the Trump camp. He argues that he acted inside the rights granted to him as a journalist below the First Modification.
“Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no totally different than what he has at all times performed,” his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, stated in an announcement. “The First Modification exists to guard journalists whose function it’s to shine gentle on the reality and maintain these in energy accountable.”
