On Friday, Lemon's attorneys moved to have the charges against Lemon dismissed, and later on CNN's The Lead With Jake Tapper, Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell was given the floor to make his case uninterrupted. Case number one today, Don Lemon, our former colleague here at CNN." LEMON: I'm just here, I'm not. Tapper then put up a social media post from Trump in 2019, noting the president "has been attacking Don Lemon since at least 2016. This statute isn't passed to cover the events of what Don Lemon did, covering the news.