Accused felon and disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon got emotional during an appearance on Thursday’s edition of The View while recalling his arrest by federal agents. The far-left activist pretending to be journalist nearly broke down in tears as he suggested President Trump almost had him disappeared that day… if not for one of the arresting FBI agents who delivering his bracelet to his husband. He also falsely suggested they didn’t have a warrant to arrest him.
Completely downplaying the charges that Lemon was not acting as a journalist but rather as part of the far-left mob that broke into a St. Paul church and intentionally disrupted the service, The View cast and Lemon himself suggested he was “specifically being targeted by this administration.” “So, yeah, I think that I was targeted,” he agreed with his close friend, The View co-host, and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin.
Lemon recounted that his bracelet (which Goldberg disclosed contained an expensive black diamond) was causing problems when the agents were getting the cuffs on him. Lemon began to choke up as he recalled how an FBI agent offered to bring it to his husband (pictured above). He then claimed no one would have known what happened to him if not for that:
LEMON: He took it up and gave it to him and that was the only way that anybody know that I had been arrested.
BEHAR: Look at how that makes you cry.
GOLDBERG: Because no one would have known where he was.
LEMON: Because I would have been - no one would have known where I was.
HOSTIN: No one knew where he was and they took his cell phone.
BEHAR: Poor guy. That's so wrong, what they did.
Lemon suggests he was almost disappeared by the federal agents who arrested him... as he's telling the story of how an agent returned his bracelet to his husband:
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 2, 2026
LEMON: So, when they put the handcuffs on me, right, it kept getting caught. And I said and I was trying -- I was… pic.twitter.com/O1X76RE0j5
Lemon’s theatrics were ridiculous. While they were whining that authorities still had his phone as evidence, they likely gave it to him so he could call his lawyer once he was booked, who would have let people know and did. He specifically noted that he retained a lawyer long before he was arrested: “When I heard Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi and others talking about this, I got an attorney…”
Earlier in the show, Lemon suggested that the agents arresting him didn’t have a proper warrant. Of course, the ignorant co-host lapped it right up:
LEMON: I thought I was being mugged so I started -- I was jostling and pulling back. And they’re like, ‘we're federal agents. We're here to arrest you.’ I’m like, ‘For what, where is the warrant?’ So, we had a bit of a struggle because I wanted a warrant. They didn't have it.
GOLDBERG: They didn’t have the warrant?!
LEMON: They didn’t have it.
GOLDBEGR: Oh!
LEMON: So, they went outside to get an FBI agent and he brought a picture of a warrant on the phone.
GOLDBERG: He brought a picture of a warrant?!
LEMON: A picture of the warrant.
According to Goldberg’s profound ignorance, agents showing a picture of a warrant was something new the Trump administration cooked up and any person with a picture could arrest anybody. “So, now you can go and arrest somebody and hold up a picture and say - so we can do the -- can we as normal people say, ‘Hey, I'm an FBI agent, here's my warrant, you're going to jail?’” she proclaimed.
Speaking with accused felon Don Lemon about his arrest by federal agents, Whoopi claims any American citizen can now just "hold up a picture" and "say, hey, I'm an FBI agent, here's my warrant, you're going to jail." pic.twitter.com/UBgk9R33CK
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 2, 2026
“Life-long progressive” co-host Whitney Cummings, who on a previous episode admitted all her doctors diagnosed her as “crazy,” claimed - without evidence - that what was presented to Lemon was a “ChatGPT-mocked-up warrant.”
While Hostin was feigning surprise at them using a picture of the warrant, she knew perfectly well that federal law allowed for it. As noted by Cornell Law School, a physical warrant wasn’t needed:
A warrant is executed by arresting the defendant. Upon arrest, an officer possessing the original or a duplicate original warrant must show it to the defendant. If the officer does not possess the warrant, the officer must inform the defendant of the warrant's existence and of the offense charged and, at the defendant's request, must show the original or a duplicate original warrant to the defendant as soon as possible.
Lemon also whined that the arrest was “a waste of taxpayer dollars.” “I was going to say, the more expensive option and the more theatrical,” pretend independent co-host Sara Haines added.
Lemon and former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin say perp walks are unnecessary and are only done " to send a message," "to harass," and call it "the n-word treatment." pic.twitter.com/L5ka2nQHUP
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 2, 2026
“It’s called a perp walk,” Hostin explained. “But as my friend who is also an attorney said that, ‘they gave you the N-word treatment,’” Lemon said. “Yes, yes, that is correct,” Hostin agreed.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 2, 2026
11:24:00 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, you see these guys coming at you, you're thing, ‘who is that?’
DON LEMON: Whoopi, I didn't see them coming.
GOLDBERG: You didn’t see them?!
LEMON: I got on the elevator. You know, you turn and hit the button. And as I was hitting the button, someone grabbed me and I said, ‘oh, my god, I'm being mugged.’
GOLDBERG: Right!
SUNNY HOSTIN: Oh!
LEMON: I thought I was being mugged so I started -- I was jostling and pulling back. And they’re like, ‘we're federal agents. We're here to arrest you.’ I’m like, ‘For what, where is the warrant?’ So, we had a bit of a struggle because I wanted a warrant. They didn't have it.
GOLDBERG: They didn’t have the warrant?!
LEMON: They didn’t have it.
GOLDBEGR: Oh!
LEMON: So, they went outside to get an FBI agent and he brought a picture of a warrant on the phone.
GOLDBERG: He brought a picture of a warrant?!
LEMON: A picture of the warrant.
HOSTIN: A picture?
GOLDBERG: So, now you can go and arrest somebody and hold up a picture and say - so we can do the -- can we as normal people say, ‘Hey, I'm an FBI agent, here's my warrant, you're going to jail?’
HOSTIN: Wow.
LEMON: It's very similar to what happened to some of the folks in Minneapolis and beyond, they had instead of you having a judicial warrant, they had - I forget what they call it. Another kind of warrant.
GOLDBERG: A faux warrant.
HOSTIN: Administrative warrant.
LEMON: Administrative warrant. Thank you, Sunny. Leave it to -
WHITNEY CUMMINGS: A ChatGPT-mocked-up warrant.
LEMON: Mine was real apparently, but here's the thing. When I heard Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi and others talking about this, I got an attorney and my attorney emailed them and said, ‘Hey, if you guys are serious, let's do this right. He'll turn himself in.’ They call it self-report.
GOLDBERG: They didn’t want to do that.
LEMON: Didn't respond. I think they did it once. He did it once, maybe twice but did not respond and they sent, I don't know, 12, 15, maybe 20 agents.
GOLDBERG: Right.
LEMON: It's a waste of taxpayer dollars.
SARA HAINES: I was going to say, the more expensive option and the more theatrical.
LEMON: Well, all they had to do was ‘Hey, Mr. Lemon, turn yourself in.’ Okay, where do I go? What’s the address? I’ll be there in however many minutes.
HOSTIN: And federal prosecutors do and the Justice Department does that to send a message and to intimidate, and to harass. And I’m - And it's unfortunate, my friend, that you went through that.
LEMON: Thank you, thank you very much. And Sunny, I've been leaning on Sunny as counsel just as a friend. No legal stuff but just as a friend.
But here's the thing, they do it because they want to embarrass people. Cause they did it with everyone. They want to embarrass you. They want to humiliate.
HOSTIN: It’s called a perp walk.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
LEMON: But as my friend who is also an attorney said that, ‘they gave you the N-word treatment.’
HOSTIN: Yes, yes, that is correct.
(…)
11:37:12 a.m. Eastern
LEMON: So, when they put the handcuffs on me, right, it kept getting caught. And I said and I was trying -- I was fiddling with it and the guy was like 'what, do you want me to take it off?' And I said, 'Yes, but are you sure you're going to do the right thing with it?' And there was an FBI agent that walked up to me and said, 'I will take care of it' and I said, 'give this to my husband, he is in room blah, blah, blah' and he took it up. [Gets choked up]
JOY BEHAR: And gave it to him.
CUMMINGS: Put it on eBay!
BEHAR: That's nice.
LEMON: He took it up and gave it to him and that was the only way that anybody know that I had been arrested.
BEHAR: Look at how that makes you cry.
GOLDBERG: Because no one would have known where he was.
LEMON: Because I would have been - no one would have known where I was.
HOSTIN: No one knew where he was and they took his cell phone.
BEHAR: Poor guy. That's so wrong, what they did.
GOLDBERG: Do they still have your cell phone?
HOSTIN: Yes.
LEMON: They still have my phone. So, if you're texting me, Pam Bondi's reading them.
(…)
