Listen 10 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article ShareDon Lemon started the interview as Morning Don. But Lemon wasn’t done with the tech entrepreneur’s previous topic — an attempt to explain recent comments equating current-day gun-control measures with post-Civil War efforts to ban Black people from owning weapons. He channeled the outrage of left-leaning viewers by outright calling the president a racist, generating “Don Lemon DESTROYS Donald Trump” headlines across the internet. AdvertisementThe grouping of Lemon, Harlow and Collins, who shared equal billing, was inspired as much by their personal relationships as their journalism skills and on-air presence. Advertisement“I can see why people would think Don would work in the morning because he’s super charismatic.” said one CNN on-air colleague.

Source: CNN April 29, 2023 14:34 UTC