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LIVE AT 5: Trump’s Attack On The Media Is An Attack On Democracy

Don Lemon | September 24, 2026



President Trump’s escalating attacks on journalists and news organizations are dangerous, desperate and completely unhinged. This isn’t simply another political feud, it is a sustained campaign to intimidate the press.

Don is joined by our correspondent Daniel Grimes, Joy Reid, Jim Acosta and April Ryan, who know firsthand what it means to face Trump’s fury, for a conversation about press freedom, political retaliation and the consequences for American democracy.

Written by Don Lemon

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This post currently has 43 comments.

  1. @celestes.1314

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    If you noticed when he said "one quick question", she positioned her ear to hear what he was asking. When he mentioned Nolan's name that when she didn't want to answer the question. She's aware that there is a cover up. MISSISSIPPI IS MISSISSIPPI AND WILL ALWAYS BE MISSISSIPPI. As much as I hate to say it, she will end up getting voted back in.

  2. @catperez315

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    No one seems to get it. It was talk like that which put US in Germany to fight a war against a mad man. Now Who is the Mad Man. That’s why this election is even more important than anything We the people Win.
    We must beg borrow and plead our way to victory by voting Blue.

  3. @marajade784

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    You are not a lawyer.
    You are not a PR strategist.
    You are not an investigative reporter.
    Have you gone through the autopsy report released by the Wells team?
    Have you taken the time to go through the timeline of events?
    You are a talk show host.
    Jay Megan looks at the time line in a painstaking manner.
    Joy Reid makes deeply thoughtful points.
    You had your ass handed to you by a TMZ reporter on the Gaza genocide.
    With no producers in your ears and no corporate team backing you…
    You stir up drama for engagement.
    How anyone can watch joy Reid and then listen to you is beyond me.

  4. @petermiles7497

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Now! There is something wrong here. Why the defensive attitude? This really feels like a cover up because one of the kids involved mother is a judge who was on the island. The son openly admitted his mother was on the other side of the island.

  5. @voiceoftruth3774

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Watching from abroad and sickened by the lack of outrage Americans have. I’m constantly asked, “Why aren’t Americans in the streets?” It’s such a head-scratcher for people on the outside looking in. What Americans have allowed these elected officials to get away with is incomprehensible.

  6. @RichardCasey1967

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Amb. Bolton should not be interviewed. He refused to testify before congress to better this country and saved all that info for his book to make a profit. Then comes on and talks about morals and what should be done the right way. The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

  7. @kathrynmarie412

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Daniel,you are amazing. It makes my heart sick when people can’t even have basic interpersonal skills and THEY WORK FOR US. How hard would it be to for her to have just said ONE kind word toward Nolan and his family??

  8. @frankmller-iversen4431

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    The was a Guy with a Red hat who is not Maga hat he said maga is the last dying breath of the of the Confederacy and that was beautiful we just need to make that a reality I’m so tired of this race shit we should be more grown-up and more advanced as a human species to know that we are all the same just different color I

  9. @RMDNLA

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Mississippi’s representative doing what Mississippi does. My mom (RIP) always seemed to suggest Mississippi is one of the worst places one Earth for Black Americans. I say treat them as the black hole No-Mans-Land that they are and encourage Blacks to abandon ship, and see how well Mississippi fares without them. Let the racists have Mississippi and their diseased mosquitoes and other undesirable “qualities” all to their racist selves.

  10. @NurseMeMeBSNRN

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Isn’t it ironic the security guard that she summoned to her distress call…. WOW! Daniel always has an optimistic outlook on everything. He has to start seeing how insidious these individuals are. In the least she could have just offered condolences.

  11. @simplymenowandever6355

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    WTF is wrong with These Public Servants called Senator or Representative and even President has trampled on the Press and decided the Constitution is meaningless to them or those who elected them!
    A Judge who knows the Constitution, has to think about whether the very first Ammendment of the Constitution is Constitutional????

  12. @MSASHABLOOM

    September 24, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    NOT DANIEL! He is a sweetheart! Of course, an avoidance tatic still at play. Her Spirit is running away from the light! Daniel is such a LIGHT! LOVE HIM!❤🎉 Keep shinning your Light! There was NO THREAT.

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