Journalist Don Lemon asked a judge to dismiss an indictment tied to his presence at a protest in a Minnesota church earlier this year, arguing the charges violate the First Amendment and are a result of a vindictive prosecution.
“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 (and) that the Justice Department acted on the President’s animus by filing unprecedented charges against a journalist for doing his job,” Lemon’s lawyers wrote in a motion Friday, citing more than a dozen statements from the president and administration officials.
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