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Don Lemon: It Is My Obligation As A Journalist To Call Trump A Racist

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Amber Athey Podcast Columnist
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CNN anchor Don Lemon said during a summit Friday that he believes it is his job as a journalist to call President Donald Trump a racist.

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Lemon was the keynote speaker at Variety’s Entertainment & Technology NYC Summit where he told attendees that the president is “racist” or “racist-adjacent,” according to The Hill’s Joe Concha

“Critical thinking is important as a journalist. If you cannot surmise that this president — if he’s not racist, he’s certainly racist-adjacent,” Lemon asserted. “We have come to a consensus in our society that facts matter. I feel like it’s my obligation to say that.”

He continued, “If you have the evidence that shows you, that leads you to nothing else but this president being racist, then I feel it’s my obligation as a journalist to say it.”

Despite asserting that the president is a racist, Lemon un-ironically insisted that CNN is on “the side of the truth.”

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