Marjorie Taylor Greene Backs Charges Against Don Lemon: ‘I Completely Support His Arrest’ | EUROtoday

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) verbally sparred with Bill Maher on Friday after Maher condemned President Donald Trump and his administration over the arrest of former CNN host Don Lemon.

Maher, on his “Real Time” present Friday, was discussing the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection brokers in Minnesota, who killed two U.S. residents earlier this month, noting, “That didn’t happen under [former President Barack] Obama.”

When he raised the information of Lemon’s arrest, an viewers member yelled, “Yes!” Maher, shocked, famous, “Somebody went, ‘Yes,’ like, ‘Good.’ I don’t know. It’s not good to arrest him.”

To which Greene replied, “Well, I’m going to say he violated the FACE Act.”

The Freedom of Access to Clinical Entrances (FACE) Act prohibits the use or risk of power to intrude with entry to reproductive well being companies or locations of non secular worship.

Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles on prices associated to his protection of an anti-ICE protest on Jan. 18, when demonstrators interrupted a Sunday morning service on the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He seemed to be on the scene to report on the protest.

“He went into a church, disrupted their worship and then later in an interview compared them to white supremacists,” stated Greene, alluding to Lemon’s feedback on the “I’ve Had It” podcast. “That’s not journalism. That’s activism.”

Maher then interjected, “But does it warrant getting arrested?”

Greene doubled down, arguing Lemon violated the FACE Act by “stopping people’s right to worship.”

She added, “And under the … administration [of former President Joe Biden]pro-lifers were sent to prison up to 11 years for praying in front of an abortion clinic and they were convicted under the FACE Act. So I don’t think that’s journalism.”

Maher sided with quite a few different media personalities and journalists who view Lemon’s arrest as one more disconcerting instance of presidency overreach beneath Trump, and stated: “OK, but can we just charge him with, ‘Not cool, man?’”

“I completely support his arrest,” replied Greene, who has notably damaged with Trump and his administration over a number of points final 12 months earlier than saying her resignation from Congress.

Fellow visitor MS NOW host Joe Scarborough argued that if anybody needs to be prosecuted in any respect, it needs to be “the people that went into the church, that were the protesters,” suggesting Lemon was merely doing his job as a journalist on the time.

“I think there has to be sort of a differentiation between if somebody’s going in there and saying, ‘I’m not with them. Can I ask you some questions?’ Because you’re going to have embeds in war, you’re going to have embeds in protests,” Scarborough added. “There’s no doubt, this was meant to scare other reporters, to scare other journalists.”