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9. CNN anchor Don Lemon
In 2019, CNN anchor Don Lemon suggested that Trump shouldn’t have a platform by comparing the former president to Hitler.
“Think about Hitler,” said Lemon. “Would you say that that person is allowed — let’s put it this way, if you could look back in history, would you say, ‘Well, I’m so glad that that person was allowed a platform so that they could spread their hate and propaganda and lies,’ or would you say, ‘It probably wasn’t the right thing to do to spread that’ because you knew in the moment that that was a bad person and they were doing bad things. Not only were they hurting people, they were killing people.”
Lemon’s fellow CNN anchor Chris Cuomo pushed back on his remarks, stating, “comparing anything to an extreme, like a Hitler, it weakens the argument, because you are now taking a guy who says things you don’t like and comparing him to a genocidal maniac.”
While the two disagreed on the issue, Lemon was never “canceled” for making the Nazi comparison.Share
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