CNN’s Lemon Blames Trump for Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 28, 2020
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What started out as reasonable venting about how the police treat African Americans and how white people should be more receptive, during Wednesday’s handoff between Cuomo PrimeTime and CNN Tonight, went too far when the latter’s host, Don Lemon blamed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on President Trump. On top of that, he and Chris Cuomo asserted that people on the right would be all-in for gun control if it were African Americans protesting like those demanding Michigan reopen.

The handoff began benign enough, with Lemon urging viewers to imagine if it were their friend who had been killed by a police officer that way, to have more empathy, and to speak out.

But it took a decidedly political turn when he accused the President of being an influence in the situation:

LEMON: How many more excuses do you need to make before you examine yourself and say, okay, maybe I need to wake up a little bit and take a good long look at what I've been doing. Maybe I need to understand or realize that the environment that this President has trafficked in can help to lead to these sorts of situations, where people think that that sort of behavior, meaning the people who are doing these things, the people who are calling the cops on people falsely in central park. The people who are chasing people down the street in Georgia and killing them. That you may begin to think that your actions are normal. That you may begin to think that you as the preeminent voice can do things that are inhumane to other people and it will be accepted.

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