Don Lemon Hints CNN Fired Him for Refusing to Give Airtime to ‘Liars and Bigots’

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Two months after he was fired from CNN, Don Lemon hinted that the network let him go because he wasn’t in interested in “platforming liars” on his show.“I have a responsibility — not only as a journalist, but as an American — to tell the truth and to abide by the promises of the Constitution,” the reporter, 57, said on Saturday, June 24, during his first sit-down interview since his CNN exit. “Because the Constitution says ‘a more perfect union’ — not ‘a perfect union.’ I’m not a perfect person.

No one is. In order to fulfill the promise of the Constitution, we have to stand up for what is right. We have to stand up for the truth.”Lemon didn’t mention his former employer by name in the interview with ABC’s Memphis affiliate, but he hinted that he and his bosses didn’t see eye-to-eye about who should be featured on the network.“I don’t believe in platforming liars and bigots and, you know, insurrectionists and election deniers and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth, people who are fighting for what’s right, people who are abiding by the Constitution,” Lemon continued. “I think that would be a dereliction of journalistic duty to do those sorts of things.

That is what has gotten me to this point and that is what is going to carry me forward.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesHe went on to say that he doesn’t know what’s next for him career-wise but is proud to have held true to his personal beliefs. “To know that I am doing the right thing, that I am standing up and abiding by the Constitution, which my profession demands that I do because we are listed in the First Amendment of the Constitution — which is freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of the