CNN's Don Lemon gets emotional speaking in court during sentencing of Trump supporter who threatened journalists

New York Daily News

Lemon and his CNN colleague Brian Stelter were among the speakers this morning at the sentencing hearing for Robert Lemke, the Trump supporter who was later sentenced to three years in prison for sending threatening messages to more than 50 journalists. “I am tired of looking over my shoulder. I am tired of being suspicious of even friendly faces in public,” Lemon said in an emotional statement read in court. “I am tired of being called fake news…I am tired of being called names like ‘f----t’ and ‘n----r’ in public by people like Robert Lemke. I am exhausted. We are exhausted and tired. It is insulting to me that Robert Lemke thinks that he is a victim…‘Trump made me do it. The media made me do it. He’s a grown man!”