LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump trashed Don Lemon and denied having advance knowledge that the ex-CNN host would be arrested last week. While talking with reporters on Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said Lemon’s arrest was “the best thing that could happen to him” in his decades-long journalism career. When a reporter asked if he knew Lemon was going to be taken into custody, Trump said that he didn’t “know anything about the Don Lemon thing,” then described him as a “sleazebag.”Advertisement“Everyone’s known that. Probably from his standpoint, the best thing that could happen to him,” Trump said. Getty ImagesAdvertisementLemon’s attorney Abbe Lowell accused the Trump administration of “wrongdoing” in a separate statement shared on Instagram.

Source: Huffington Post February 02, 2026 02:55 UTC