In-town note 7: Lemon/Minn. church protest comments

POTUS weighed in on the Minneapolis church protest incident which has led to charges against Don Lemon and other journalists and protesters.

"The Department of Justice recently charged nine individuals from for storming a church in Minnesota during a worship service and trampling on Americans first amendment rights. I watched that tape, and you know, that was violent ... people screaming 'our parents are Nazis, your parents are Nazis.' The people are sitting ... and I thought the minister was great. he was so calm and goodness, screaming at him, terrible, right in the middle of a church service, it's got to be illegal," he said.

"I'm not doing it, but Pam is doing it. And I'll tell you, people are happy with the job that's taking place because they're bad people. They're bad people. You have one, one Trump hater in particular that just I watched his performance, it was terrible. They tried to use freedom of press and all this to get out of a criminal event, but they were that was a horrible thing to witness. And if we allowed that to go and you wouldn't, you wouldn't be able to have a church, no everybody would be afraid to go to church, and that we are not going to allow, are we?"

Andrew Feinberg

White House Correspondent

The Independent

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