Don Lemon deletes video silently mocking Melania Trump's response to her husband's shooting



Former CNN talking head Don Lemon is facing widespread criticism over his silent mockery of Melania Trump's emotionally charged video discussing the July 13 attempt on her husband's life.

In a 30-second video shared to social media Tuesday promoting her forthcoming memoir, Melania Trump briefly discussed the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and noted that she wants answers.

Blaze News previously reported that the U.S. House-appointed Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump is gathering records from local, state, and federal authorities, including the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs investigators have also been conducting transcribed interviews with officials linked to the Butler rally.

Prior to this week, the former first lady had not spoken on camera about her husband's shooting by Thomas Mathew Crooks. She had, however, issued a heartfelt statement on July 14 noting, "When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron's life, were on the brink of devastating change."

Now, months later and still without critical information about the attempted assassination, Melania stated, "The attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience. Now, the silence around it feels heavy."

"I can't help but wonder: Why didn't law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech?" continues Melania Trump. "There is definitely more to this story, and we need to uncover the truth."

The video was shared just hours before President Trump debated Kamala Harris and told the nation, "I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that [Democrats] say about me."

Lemon, who claimed that Trump was a "bully" in Tuesday's debate, was among the liberals who rushed to mock the former first lady.

'There can't be a more pathetic, attention-starved human being on the planet.'

In a reaction video posted to TikTok, Lemon rolled his eyes, shook his head in disapproval, and threw up his hands in frustration during a replay of the former first lady's remarks.

Chaya Raichik's Libs of TikTok shared Lemon's video, calling it "sick."

Conservative columnist Joe Concha tweeted, "There can't be a more pathetic, attention-starved human being on the planet. What person in their right mind would ever mock a wife over an assassination attempt against her husband? Don Lemon, everyone!"

Army veteran Rob Smith suggested that Lemon "is the prime example of someone that needs direction and scripting from cable news overlords."

Amidst the backlash, Lemon deleted the video.

The Daily Mail indicated that a representative for Lemon has yet to respond to a request for comment.

Lemon is hardly the first in liberal media to mock the victims of the Butler rally assassination attempt.

The Onion, owned by longtime Democratic donor and Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, made a punch line Tuesday evening out of the death of Corey Comperatore — a heroic former firefighter who died trying to save his family during the attempted assassination of President Trump.

The Onion joked during the debate that people don't leave Trump rallies; "they're carried out in body bags."

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On a recent trip to Atlantic City, Don Lemon conducted some man-on-the-street-style interviews — and he definitely did not get the results he expected.

Lemon asked strangers who they plan on supporting for president, and many of the answers were not Kamala Harris.

When one black man told Lemon he supports Trump and doesn’t believe Harris is good for the “actual lead role for the country,” Lemon asked if it was because Kamala is a woman.

“Nah, you’re not going to give me that,” the man smartly responded.

Another man told Lemon he supports Trump and doesn’t like Harris because “she has no experience,” which left Lemon yelling, “She’s the vice president, she’s a senator!” The man stuck with his answer.

When one man told Lemon he was supporting Trump because he was financially doing better four years ago — Lemon gave his worst response yet.

“I know you feel that way, but that’s not actually what the record shows. The economy is actually better under Biden,” Lemon said with a straight face, not joking.

When Lemon did hear from a Harris voter, the man said he believes that Trump will win.

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“It’s embarrassing,” Pat Gray comments happily.


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Don Lemon gets called out hard for still shilling for vaccines and COVID regulations



Don Lemon has stayed true to his colors and is still shilling for the media and the government — despite losing his coveted gig on CNN.

He made this clear in an interview on "The Full Send Podcast," where the Nelk boys confronted him with some basic facts about the government’s disastrous COVID policies.

“There’s a certain set of people that no matter what evidence is put in front of them as it pertains to COVID or as it pertains to the border or the economy or anything else — they will still run defense for the system,” Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" explains, before showing the embarrassing clip.

One of the Nelk boys accused Lemon of being like Cuomo, very pro- “take the thing, do it,” about vaccines.

“This whole argument about vaccines is a little weird to me because I think people are Monday-morning quarterbacking the idea of vaccines,” Lemon responded sheepishly, adding he thought that “instead of being selfish” people should have been “doing what was best for our fellow man.”

“So, I think that the people who are questioning the use of masks, even in the moment, were being a bit selfish,” Lemon said, before repeating the commonly heard line that “there was no medical evidence that ivermectin could help save people from getting COVID, or prevent them from getting COVID, or had any effect on the COVID-19 vaccine.”

“I believe in medicine, I believe in science, and I believe that my government is looking out for me and trying to do the best for me,” Lemon continued.

“Shouldn’t other people have the right to not take the vaccine and not forced to put something in their body that they didn’t want?” the other Nelk boy asks, adding, “It seemed at the time like media was really shaming people if you didn’t get a vaccine, like it’s your fault.”

“Well, I don’t know if the media was shaming people,” Lemon responded. “If you don’t get the vaccine, then don’t get the vaccine, but don’t expect to be able to do and go places,” he continued before being cut off.

“Like make a living, right?” one of the boys asked.

“I’ve watched that clip a couple of times, and it gets worse each time. I mean, he is on his knees blowing a system that literally fired him,” Rubin comments, shocked.


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