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CNN’s Don Lemon tries to explain why riots destroying mom & pop shops aren’t as bad as when politicians feel threatened

  CNN host Don Lemon on Tuesday seemingly sought to downplay the damage caused to small businesses amid the civil unrest in 2020, dismissing comparisons between them and the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol. .Appearing on CNN's "New Day," Lemon claimed trying to undermine democracy was "quite different" than people protesting because they were upset about something, and while an insurance policy could replace damage done to businesses or stolen products, it couldn't replace a democracy. Host John Berman noted to Lemon that a number of federal judges held differing opinions on the comparison between rioters at the U.S. Capitol and those taking part in riots following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer, with some suggesting the treatment in sentencing wasn't equal enough, and others suggesting it would be a false equivalency to liken the two. "One of them operating in reality, the other one operating not so much in reality,...

CNN's Don Lemon calls on Americans to shun 'stupid' unvaccinated people: 'Leave them behind'

  CNN host   Don Lemon   called on Americans to shun "stupid" unvaccinated people on Wednesday, saying they should be left behind because they were "harmful to the greater good." During a discussion with fellow CNN host  Chris Cuomo  at the start of his show, Lemon blasted those choosing not to take the  vaccine  because they weren't sure about its contents by oddly comparing it to Botox injections and people being unaware of what was in them, but taking them regardless. "I think we have to stop coddling people when it comes to … the vaccines, saying ‘Oh you can’t shame them. You can’t call them stupid.' Yes, they are. The people who aided and abetted Trump are stupid because they believed his big lie," Lemon said, making an unclear comparison between former  President Donald Trump  and ongoing vaccine hesitancy within some communities. "The people who are not getting vaccines who are believing the lies on the internet instead of science, ...

Don Lemon is facing serious backlash on Twitter after a segment on depicting Trump’s voters as “rubes.”

During his show Saturday night, Lemon laughed as former GOP strategist Rick Wilson criticized reports that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had angrily challenged a reporter to find Ukraine on an unmarked map. “He also knows deep within his heart that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter ‘U’ and a picture of an actual, physical crane next to it,” Wilson said. “He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world and so that’s partly him playing to the base and playing to their audience, you know, the ‘credulous boomer rube’ demo that backs Donald Trump.” From there, Wilson put on a Southern accent to imitate someone in what he called the “credulous boomer rube” demographic: “Donald Trump is the smart one. Y’all elitists are  dumb .” “You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling,” added New York Times columnist Wajahat Ali as Wilson chimed back in, “And your readin’!” “And your reading,” agre...