{"id":442219,"date":"2026-02-01T05:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:17:15","slug":"jane-fonda-defends-don-lemon-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442219\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Fonda Defends Don Lemon After Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Don Lemon<\/a> was released from jail<\/a> in Los Angeles, Jane Fonda<\/a> was there to show her support.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2x Oscar winner called on people to \u201cspeak up\u201d in the face of \u201cautocrats\u201d following Lemon\u2019s Thursday indictment for covering an anti-ICE protest<\/a> at a Minneapolis church earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are not ready to sit and be quiet. We have to speak up. Every American who believes in our constitution has to speak up,\u201d she said in a video shared by TMZ<\/a>. \u201cDon Lemon is a professional journalist. He and his producer were doing their job, nothing more, nothing less. And he\u2019s been arrested. And they\u2019ll make up all kinds of defamatory things to say about him, that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. That\u2019s how autocrats act. We can\u2019t fall for it. We have to speak up. When a red line is crossed like this, we cannot be silent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Don<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jane<\/p>\n

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\n\tFonda continued, \u201cI know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN, and I will fight for their right to speak, which is guaranteed in our constitution. They arrested the wrong Don.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Friday, Lemon was released from custody<\/a> on a no-cash bond, after which he thanked everyone outside the Los Angeles courthouse for their support.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Don<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tDon Lemon outside of the downtown Los Angeles federal court building Friday<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI have spent my entire career covering the news. I will not stop now,\u201d said Lemon. \u201cIn fact, there is no more important time than right now this very moment for a free and independent media that shines a light on the truth and holds those in power accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAmid Jimmy Kimmel Live\u2018s recent row with the FCC, Jane relaunched her father Henry Fonda\u2019s McCarthy-era Committee for the First Amendment<\/a> in October with the support of 550 industry figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Don Lemon was released from jail in Los Angeles, Jane Fonda was there to show her support.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,168573,199866,88,35360,24550],"class_list":["post-442219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-committee-for-the-first-amendment","tag-don-lemon","tag-entertainment","tag-free-speech","tag-jane-fonda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}