The attack on the Capitol last week was a tragic day for all Americans, but the media are hellbent on stoking hatred and division among us by demonizing the 74 million people who voted for the president as the same as domestic terrorists. CNN primetime host Don Lemon couldn’t have displayed this better than he did during his show’s opening last night after the House voted to impeach Trump for a second time. With fellow CNN clown Chris Cuomo, Lemon smeared anyone who voted for the president as on the same side of racist murderers throughout history.
During Cuomo’s handoff, Lemon asked him to stay on so he could explain to viewers what was really going on in America, saying last week’s attack was about “preserving whiteness in the worst possible way.” Cuomo helped Lemon mock the obvious truth that you can’t connect millions of Americans who voted for Trump with violent rioters:
“Now what your hear is ‘well you can't say that everybody who voted for Trump is like the people who went into the Capitol!’ Response?” Cuomo asked. Lemon launched into his lecture about how yes, he can do exactly that. Not only that, but if you voted for the president, you supported the Klan, Nazis, slavery and every other evil against your fellow American:
LEMON: I just explained to you. If you are on that side you need to think about the side you're on. I'm never on the side of the Klan. Principled people, conservative or liberal, never on the Klan side. Principled people, conservative or liberal never on the Nazi side. Principled people conservative or liberal never on the side that treats their fellow Americans as less than, that says your fellow Americans should not exist. That says your fellow Americans should be in a concentration camp or that sides with slavery or sides with any sort of bigotry.
CUOMO: And if they say I don't agree with those people, and just like Trump's policy.
LEMON: Well then get out of the crowd with them.
CUOMO: I wasn’t in the crowd, I just voted for Trump!
LEMON: If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported. You voted for the person who Nazis support. You voted for the person who the alt-right supports. That's the crowd that you are in. You voted for the person who incited a crowd to go into the Capitol and potentially take the lives of lawmakers, took the lives of police officers, took the lives-- innocent lives who were there at the Capitol that day. You voted on that side.
Lemon also boasted about how the media had warned us about racist white Trump supporters causing violence:
But this is about America's original sin, and that is racism...This is about people who are dying and the country continuing to go down the wrong road and not facing its original sin. That's what this is. We had racist people who tried to take over the Capitol. We have tens of thousands of members of the military who are now guarding the Capitol of this country because of what? Because these people tried to take over the country, because we told you about it. The news told you about it….Law enforcement told you about it.
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Read the relevant transcript below:
CNN: The 2nd Trump Impeachment Vote
2:00am EST
1/14/2021
DON LEMON: Hang on, let me finish and then you can ask me the tough question. So I think that in order to do ourselves, meaning the country, any good, we've got to get down to the nitty-gritty of what this is. And it is about what I said and I stand by it, preserving whiteness in the worst possible way. If you find yourself, Chris, in a crowd and the person next to you is carrying a Confederate battle flag or the person next to you has on a Neo-nazi symbol of some type or has on an Camp Auschwitz then in your mind wouldn't you say my goodness, I have made the wrong decision I need to get out of here --
CHRIS CUOMO: Unless I agreed with those ideas!
DON LEMON: Or rethink what I’m doing. So stop saying, all those people- They were there in the crowd with the same people in plain sight in plain daylight.
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CUOMO: Now what your hear is ‘well you can't say that everybody who voted for Trump is like the people who went into the Capitol!’ Response?
LEMON: You can't say that what everybody’s like that-- ?
CUOMO: Everybody voted for Trump, is like them.
LEMON: I just explained to you. If you are on that side you need to think about the side you're on. I'm never on the side of the Klan. Principled people, conservative or liberal, never on the Klan side. Principled people, conservative or liberal never on the Nazi side. Principled people conservative or liberal never on the side that treats their fellow Americans as less than, that says your fellow Americans should not exist. That says your fellow Americans should be in a concentration camp or that sides with slavery or sides with any sort of bigotry.
CUOMO: And if they say I don't agree with those people, and just like Trump's policy.
LEMON: Well then get out of the crowd with them.
CUOMO: I wasn’t in the crowd, I just voted for Trump!
LEMON: If you voted for Trump, you voted for the person who the Klan supported. You voted for the person who Nazis support. You voted for the person who the alt-right supports. That's the crowd that you are in. You voted for the person who incited a crowd to go into the Capitol and potentially take the lives of lawmakers, took the lives of police officers, took the lives-- innocent lives who were there at the Capitol that day. You voted on that side. And the people of Washington are continuing to vote on that side because why? Because something is in it for them. Political expediency is in it for them. Money is in it for them. Power in it for them. They're not on your side.
Working class black people and working class white people in this country have more in common than working class white people and Donald Trump who professes to be a billionaire. So actually if working class black people and working class white people can work together they'd have more political power than the people who are using them in this whole process. That's the only part of it that's political. But this is about America's original sin, and that is racism. And everybody's afraid to talk about it, afraid to really down get down to the nitty-gritty and framing it in the wrong possible way in this sort of super hero, you know, I forget what you call the movies out now the guy with the horns and all that in sort of character form, this sort of Disney-esque form. That's not what this is. This is about people who are dying and the country continuing to go down the wrong road and not facing its original sin. That's what this is. We had racist people who tried to take over the Capitol. We have tens of thousands of members of the military who are now guarding the Capitol of this country because of what? Because these people tried to take over the country, because we told you about it. The news told you about it. Hang on one second. Law enforcement told you about it. Our security agencies told you about it. Christopher Wray told you about it. You and I had a conversation two years ago on this network when I talked about right wing extremism and domestic terrorism. And we have to come to realization that, yes, white people in this country can be terrorists and they can be domestic terrorists. It's not just foreign people. That is true facts from our government. And stop tiptoeing -- look, I'm going to say it because if I don't say it who's going to say it? Everyone's afraid to talk -- there's white terrorists in this country, domestic terrorists. Stop whispering it. That's why people were taken off-guard by it because they don't think it can happen, because they don’t take it seriously!
