Don Lemon DOJ Investigation, Supreme Court Gun Rights Case, Trump Economy Booming

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Hey, what is going on, Patriots? And happy hump day. Glad to have you, and I hope everyone had a great week so far. Well, if this is your first time here, this is O'Connor's Quick Strike, and I'm John O'Connor. Three stories the legacy media won't cover or will completely twist beyond recognition, delivered in roughly 20 minutes or so. No fluff, no BS, no filler, just the unvarnished truth peppered with my own take on what's really going on.

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Now today is Wednesday, January 21st, and I've got three stories that'll show you exactly what the left is up to right now. We are starting with disgraced ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon and an anti-ice mob storming a Minnesota church during Sunday worship. And now the DOJ is coming for him. Then we are diving into the Supreme Court hearing arguments yesterday on a Hawaii gun law so insane

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It basically bans the second amendment on private property. And we are closing with economists who spent all of 2025 predicting a Trump recession, now admitting they were completely wrong. Growth is booming and recession fears just collapsed. Let's get into it. Last Sunday, January 18th, a mob of about 30 anti-ice protesters stormed City's church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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During a worship service, they barged into the sanctuary while families were praying, started blowing whistles, chanting, ice out and hands up, don't shoot, and then terrorized churchgoers, including children. And guess who was right there with them? Live streaming the whole damn thing? Failed ex-CNN host, Don Lemon. Now, the legacy media wants you to think Lemon was just doing journalism, that he was an innocent reporter covering a protest.

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but patriots, the evidence tells a completely different story. Here's what that evidence shows. On Saturday, Lemon posted he was heading to Minnesota. On Sunday morning, he met the protest organizer, Nikima Levi Armstrong, at a Dollar General parking lot. Video from his own livestream shows him kissing Armstrong on the cheek, not shaking hands, kissing her like old friends. Then he tells viewers he's following

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resistance protesters on Operation Pull Up, but says, can't tell you exactly what they are doing. If you're a journalist, your entire job is telling people what's happening. He kept it secret because he knew it was illegal. Armstrong explains Operation Pull Up means showing up somewhere unexpected to catch them off guard and hold them to account. Translation, ambush people.

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So this mob of 30 protesters marches from the Dollar General straight to City's church. They storm inside during the opening prayer. Families are worshiping, kids are there, and these crazed lunatics start screaming, blowing whistles, chanting their slogans. And Lemon, he's right there with them, filming inside the church, interviewing the protesters, acting like this is all perfectly normal. The church's lead pastor, Jonathan Parnell, confronts Lemon on camera.

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The pastor said, this is unacceptable. This is shameful. It's shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship. Lemmon's response? Lectures the pastor about the First Amendment, saying protesters have a constitutional right to freedom of speech. Pastor Parnell shuts him down. We are here to worship Jesus. That's the hope of these cities. That's the hope of the world, Jesus Christ. Then he asks Lemmon to leave.

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Lemmon stayed seven more minutes before finally walking out. Why target this church? Well, one of the pastors, David Easterwood, is also the acting Icefield officer director in St. Paul, so the left decided the entire church is a legitimate target. Think about that logic for a second. A man works for ICE, so you're allowed to invade his church and terrorize everyone there, including people who have nothing.

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to do with immigration enforcement, women, children, elderly people just trying to worship. That's who the left has become, patriots. They don't see churches as sacred places. They see them as targets. And Don Lemon, he's so desperate to stay relevant because remember he got fired from CNN back in 2023 for mistreatment of female colleagues that he's willing to participate in the desecration of a Christian worship service.

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This is a man whose career is over, trying to claw his way back into the spotlight by live streaming illegal activity. Attorney General Pam Bondi came out Sunday saying the DOJ is launching a full investigation. She told the pastor, attacks against law enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the full force of federal law. Assistant Attorney General Hermit Dylan went on Benny Johnson's show on Monday and dropped a bomb.

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She said, Don Lemon himself has come out and said he knew exactly what was going to happen inside that facility. He went into the facility and then he began quote unquote committing journalism as if that's some sort of shield from being a part of criminal conspiracy. It isn't. Journalism is not a shield from criminal conspiracy charges. When TMZ asked Dylan if Lemon is under investigation, she said,

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Connect the dots yourself. So translation? Yes. The DOJ is looking at the FACE Act, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. It protects churches from force, intimidation, or obstruction during worship. Biden's DOJ used it to throw pro-life protesters in prison for blocking abortion clinics. Trump pardoned them, but the law exists. Now it's being used against the left.

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Dylan also mentioned the KKK Act, federal crime to terrorize citizens and violate civil rights. Serious charges. And on Monday, Lemon went on a left-wing podcast and called the entire congregation entitled white supremacists who think the country was built for them. White supremacists for going to church? Let me ask you this, Patriots. When was the last time the left respected anything Christians do?

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When was the last time they treated a church as a sacred space instead of a political battleground? The answer is never. Because to the radical left, there is no sacred space. There's only power. And if you're in their way, if you work for ICE or you support Trump, if you dare to worship Jesus, they will come for you wherever you are. But they didn't count on Bondi and Dillon. The FBI is already interviewing witnesses. Charges are coming.

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And Don Lemon, this washed up, desperate for relevance hack who is fired by CNN for mistreating female colleagues, is about to learn journalism doesn't give you a free pass to break federal law. Do you think Lemon is panicking right now? Do you think he's regretting kissing that activist on the cheek? Keeping their secret operation under wraps? Praising their tactics on camera? Because the DOJ has all of that footage and they are building a case.

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This is what accountability looks like, Patriots. All right, next story. And this one's a big deal for anyone who cares about the Second Amendment. Yesterday, Tuesday, January 20th, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Wolford versus Lopez. This case could determine whether blue states can effectively ban concealed carry by making it illegal to bring guns anywhere. Here's the setup. In 2023, Hawaii passed Act 52, says,

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If you have a concealed carry permit, you can't bring your gun onto private property open to the public. So, stores, gas stations, hotels, restaurants, malls, unless the owner gives you express authorization. Express authorization means the owner has to explicitly tell you it's okay. But how many businesses post guns welcome signs? Zero. Most stay silent. Under Hawaii's law,

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Silence means no. No sign allowing guns? You are a criminal if you carry. So in practice, you can't carry at the grocery store, gas station, hotel, or basically anywhere except your home and maybe the sidewalk. Hawaii made the Second Amendment worthless. It's not just Hawaii. California, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey have similar laws. So if the Supreme Court lets this stand,

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There are five states where concealed carry permits are essentially meaningless. During arguments, Justice Alito said, are relegating this second amendment to second class status. That's exactly what's happening. Imagine if a state said, sure, you have the freedom of speech, but you can't exercise it on private property unless the owner puts up a sign saying, free speech welcome. That would be insane.

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But that's exactly what Hawaii is doing with guns. Chief Justice Roberts pressed Hawaii on why gun rights are treated differently than other constitutional rights. Hawaii's response? Well, property rights are important too. Well, okay, fine. Property rights are important. But the owner has the right to ban guns if they want to. The government can't just assume the owner wants to ban guns and make it illegal by default.

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The Trump administration is backing gun owners. The Solicitor General filed a brief saying this law violates the Second Amendment. So you have got the United States government on the side of gun rights. Hawaii tried defending it with old statutes from the 1700s and 1800s. New Jersey in 1771, Louisiana in 1865. Alito shut it down. Just because a couple states did something 250 years ago doesn't make it constitutional.

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especially when the Second Amendment was specifically adopted to protect gun rights. Justice Sotomayor took Kauai's side, asking why gun owners should have a presumptive right on private property. Well, here's the answer. The Constitution says, right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Bear means carry. If you can only carry at home, you are keeping arms, not bearing them. Based on oral arguments,

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This looks like a 6-3 or maybe 5-4 decision striking down Hawaii's law. The conservative majority seems to understand that Hawaii is playing games, using private property rights as a cover to gut the Second Amendment. Decision should come around June of 2026. So, here's what's really happening. Blue states know they lost after the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruin decision that said you can't require people to show

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proper cause to get a concealed carry permit. In other words, the Second Amendment is a right, not a privilege. So now they are doing malicious compliance. Fine, we'll issue the permits, but we'll make it illegal to use them anywhere. Let me ask you, Patriots. What good is a concealed carry permit if you can't carry at the grocery store, mall, or gas station? What's the point? There isn't one. That's the goal.

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make gun ownership so difficult, so restricted, so dangerous legally that people just give up and stop carrying. But the Supreme Court doesn't seem to be buying it. Come June, Hawaii and California and New York and Maryland and New Jersey are getting smacked down. The Second Amendment is not a second class right. Blue states don't get to pretend they are respecting it while doing everything they can to destroy it. One. All right.

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Final story, and this one should make you smile. Remember April of 2025, when Trump announced liberation day tariffs? Remember the legacy media and every so-called expert economist saying, we are heading for a recession, that Trump was going to destroy the economy? Well, guess what? They were wrong, dead wrong.

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This past Monday, January 19th, Breitbart published results from a survey of 82 economic forecasters. And Patriots, these numbers are pretty damn good. Recession probability, April of 2025, economists said 45 % chance of recession within the next 12 months. 45%, almost half. Now, 27%. That's almost cut in half.

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And 27 % is basically the average probability during the post-pandemic period. We are back to normal, but it gets better. GDP growth, October, 2025, just three months ago, economists predicted Q4 2025 would be at 1.14%, barely above 1%, pathetic. Now 2.23%, almost double what they predicted just three months ago.

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First quarter, 2026 was 1.47%. Now 2.13%. Do you see what's happening here? The economy is accelerating. Growth is speeding up. And all those experts who said Trump's policies would taint the economy are quietly revising forecasts upward. Jobs. October forecast was 49,367 jobs per month over the next four quarters. New forecast?

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64,535 per month. That's a 31 % increase in job creation expectations. Unemployment staying at 4.52 % by June, 2026, near historic lows. So let me get this straight. GDP growth doubling, job creation up 31%, unemployment near record lows, recession fears cut in half. But I thought, correct me if I'm wrong,

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Trump's terrorists would destroy everything. I thought we were destined to head for economic collapse. Turns out the experts didn't know squat. The article points out this shift happened after Trump's inauguration and as his policies took shape. In other words, the improvement is because of Trump, not in spite of him. Forecasters now believe Trump's second term is

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unfolding against a backdrop of solid, sustained economic growth rather than the contraction many feared. Translation? We were wrong. Trump was right. The tariffs worked, the tax cuts worked, the deregulation worked, and the economy is booming. The legacy media won't tell you this. They are too busy running stories about how Americans feel the economy is bad or how people are concerned about inflation.

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anything to avoid admitting Trump's policies are working. But the numbers don't lie. Economists who have zero reason to support Trump, who probably voted against him, are now admitting his economic policies are producing results. These economists are also predicting inflation will fall to 2.8 % by June 2026, down from 3.03 % in October.

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So we are getting stronger growth and lower inflation at the same time. You know what that's called? That's called a Goldilocks economy, as I found out. Not too hot, not too cold. Just right. The Federal Reserve. The economists now expect less aggressive rate cuts because the economy is doing so well. Long-term interest rates going up. The 10-year Treasury yield forecast at 4.15 % by June 2026.

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up from 3.70 % in October. That's a good thing. It means investors aren't running to safe haven assets anymore. They are not scared. They are confident. Do you remember all those articles from last spring? Trump's tariffs will cause recession. Economists warn of economic collapse. Trump's policies are reckless. Where are those articles now? Where are those economists now? They are quietly revising their forecasts.

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quietly admitting they were wrong, but not loudly apologizing, not loudly saying we were wrong, Trump was right, because that would require humility. And the expert class doesn't do humility. But you and I know the truth. Trump understands the economy better than most of, or all of these so-called experts combined. He's a businessman. He's built companies. He understands how incentives work, how taxes work, how trade works.

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While the economists were plugging numbers into their little models and predicting doom, Trump was out there actually fixing the economy. The Trump economy is doing very well right now. Recession fears are seemingly collapsing. Job creation is up. Growth is accelerating. And the experts are eating crow. So there it is, Patriots, three stories showing exactly what's happening right now. Story one.

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Don Lemon and an anti-ice mob stormed Minnesota church during Sunday worship. Terrorized families. Lemon knew beforehand, kissed organizer on cheek, kept their operation secret. The DOJ is investigating for criminal conspiracy. Bondi and Dillon coming for everyone. Face Act and KKK Act charges are coming. Lemon called the congregation white supremacists. This washed up hack is about to learn journalism isn't a shield from federal prison.

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Story 2. Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in Wolford v. Lopez. Hawaii's gun law making it illegal to carry on private property unless owner gives express authorization. Nobody does that. Permits become worthless. Five states have similar laws. Conservative justice destroyed Hawaii. Alito, relegating Second Amendment to second class status. Trump administration backing gun owners. 6-3 decisions striking down the law this June.

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is my guess. Blue State's doing malicious compliance. Story three, survey of 82 economists show Trump economy is booming. Recession probability from 45 % down to 27%, cut in half. Q4 2025 GDP forecast doubled from 1.14 % to 2.23%. Q1 2026 up from 1.47 to 2.13%. Job creation up 31%.

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unemployment near historic lows, inflation down to 2.8%. Experts, I'll use that term loosely, who predicted Trump would tank the economy, quietly revising their forecasts upwards. They were wrong, Trump was right. The left is panicking. Storm a church, get a DOJ investigation. Gut the Second Amendment, Supreme Court smacks you down. Say Trump causes recession, economy booms. This is leadership.

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A president putting America first. An attorney general defending Christians. A supreme court that reads the constitution. For years the left got away with everything. Not anymore. Trump is fighting back. Bondi and Dillon are fighting back. The supreme court is fighting back. And we are fighting back. By staying informed. By refusing the legacy media's lies. By supporting leaders who defend our values. The left thought they could intimidate us into silence.

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They were wrong. Well, this is O'Connor's Quick Strike and I'm John O'Connor. I will see you all on Friday. Continue to hold the line, Patriots.