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Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:44 PM Jan 30

Our times, so "rich" - "civil rights" charge on LEMON, & our ally is TMZ calling out "dictatorship" [View all]

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/tmz-harvey-levin-blasts-trump-004129176.html

TMZ’s Harvey Levin Blasts Trump Over Don Lemon Arrest: ‘This Is the Playbook That Dictator’s Use’

TMZ founder Harvey Levin trashed the arrest and indictment of former CNN anchor Don Lemon by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department as “a ridiculous assault on democracy” and a move straight out of the dictator’s “playbook.” ....

Speaking from TMZ’s studio in a recorded statement published on the outlet’s website Friday, Levin torched the charges and the move as “dictator-like”:

So the Trump administration wonders why people are saying that they are trying to form a dictatorship. Well, look at the landscape – arresting Don Lemon, who covered a protest in Minneapolis, is just insane, ridiculous, dictator-like. This is the playbook that dictators use to destroy democracies and take the will of the people away. It is as simple as that.


Defending Lemon’s actions as well within his First Amendment rights, the producer warned “that a free press was essential to a democracy.” ....

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