Ana Navarro Says Trump Admin Cooked The Books On Don Lemon Arrest

Ana Navarro suggested on Monday that President Donald Trump and his administration had effectively cooked the books in their efforts to arrest former CNN host Don Lemon in connection with a protest that disrupted a Minneapolis church service a week earlier.

Navarro and her cohosts on ABC’s midday talk show “The View” discussed Lemon’s arrest, and their conversation covered the entire spectrum, from Navarro and Sunny Hostin insisting that the case had no merit and would be dismissed to Whoopi Goldberg wringing her hands and warning that the Trump administration could arrest anyone the president didn’t like.

Navarro began by claiming that an appellate court’s refusal to compel a lower court judge to sign off on Lemon’s arrest warrant amounted to judges laughing the DOJ out of their courtrooms. She did not mention the fact that one of the judges concerned said that he agreed there was probable cause to arrest Lemon.

“So, they basically did it themselves,” she asserted. “Make no mistake about it. This was about gaslighting, this was about going against Don lemon and other journalists. By the way, all of whom happen to be black. Happy Black History Month. And I think it’s to send a chilling message to anybody who is covering facts.”

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Despite the grand jury indictment, Sunny Hostin (who’s friends with Lemon) proclaims “this case will be thrown out.” While not going over any of the facts of the case, Hosting declares: “[H]e was getting the story and nothing should have gotten in the way of that. He had a… pic.twitter.com/B3uvC56BQR

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Hostin, also ignoring that fact that Lemon was indicted by a federal grand jury, claimed that the former CNN host was only acting as a journalist covering the protest as it unfolded — despite video appearing to show that he was privy to the plans prior to the group storming into the church while parishioners attempted to hold a worship service.

Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin also defended Lemon, claiming that he had acted only as a journalist.

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Whoopi seems to suggests what happened with Lemon will happen to everyone on the left:
“Listen, what I said to you before, you see what’s happening, you know what’s happening. If it’s happening like this for someone who is out and clearly doing his job, what do you think will… pic.twitter.com/39028c42wV

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 2, 2026

Goldberg hit the panic button, however, and fretted about how easy it might be for the Justice Department to arrest anyone if Lemon was fair game.

“Listen, what I said to you before, you see what’s happening, you know what’s happening. If it’s happening like this for someone who is out and clearly doing his job, what do you think will happen to us?”

Since the protest just over a week earlier, several disturbing reports have come out detailing the behavior of the protesters — who reportedly harassed and terrified members of the congregation — while inside the church.