Crow Statement on the Arrest of Independent Journalists

AURORA — Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06), a three-time combat veteran and former Army Ranger, released the following statement after the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, arrested independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for reporting on protests in Minneapolis:

“There’s nothing more American than the right to dissent and question authority. It’s who we are and how we became a country. I went to war three times for our nation. I swore to uphold the Constitution. There’s no way in hell I’m letting Donald Trump take these rights away now.

“Independent journalists like Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are being arrested simply for doing their jobs: seeking the truth. It’s an attack on every American’s right to know what its government is doing.

“Generations of Americans have fought and sacrificed for our freedoms. It’s our obligation now to defend them.”

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