Don Lemon angrily shut down Roy Moore’s attorney live on air after he tried to dub the respected CNN anchor ‘Don Lemon Squeezy Keep it Easy’.
Trenton Garmon, who represents Moore, the Republican Senate nominee for Alabama, had appeared on Lemon’s show on Friday to discuss allegations his client made unwanted sexual advances towards a 14-year-old.
The lawyer began by thanking Lemon for having him on the segment before telling him he hoped the CNN Tonight host would take it easy on him so he could give him the moniker: ‘Don Easy Peasy Lemon Squeeze-e.’
Don Lemon (left) angrily shut down Roy Moore’s attorney Trenton Garmon (right) live on air after he tried to dub the respected CNN anchor ‘Don Lemon Squeezy Keep it Easy’
Lemon didn’t react to the overly-familiar nickname, and continued with the interview.
But when Garmon tried to drop the name for a second time, Lemon immediately shut it down.
The pair had been discussing the fact that the sexual misconduct allegations had been made after the statute of limitations, meaning they won’t be heard in a court of law, when Garmon interrupted.
‘But, hey, Don Lemon Squeeze-e, keep it easy, here’s the thing,’ said the attorney in what appears to have been an embarrassing attempt to ingratiate himself with Lemon.
‘It’s just Lemon,’ the host interjected. ‘My mom didn’t name me Don Lemon ‘keep it easy squeeze-e.’ It’s just Don Lemon. Go on.’
‘I got you, man,’ Garmon replied
Trenton Garmon appeared on Lemon’s show on Friday to discuss allegations his client made unwanted sexual advances towards a 14-year-old
But when he repeatedly attempted to dub the CNN host ‘Don Lemon Squeezy Keep it Easy’, the anchor shut him down
Moore has been mired in scandal since the Washington Post reported on Thursday that he had inappropriately touched a 14-year-old girl when he was in his early 30s.
The Post also alleges that he pursued sexual relationships with a 16-year-old girl and two 18-year-old females during a stretch in the 1970s.
The age of consent in Alabama is 16 years of age.
A former colleague of the embattled Alabama Republican Senate Nominee said on Saturday that it was open secret the former judge dated high school girls during the 1980s.
Teresa Jones, who worked with Moore as a deputy district attorney for Etowah County, Ala., from 1982 until 1985, said that it was ‘common knowledge’ the politician allegedly preferred younger women.
Mitch McConnell (pictured) says if the allegations are true, Moore should withdraw from the race
‘It was common knowledge that Roy Moore dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird,’ Jones told CNN.
Moore, 70, vehemently denies the allegations, saying that he believes the timing of the accusations is aimed at undermining his candidacy.
‘In the next few days there will be revelations about the motivation and the content of this article,’ Moore said during a Birmingham campaign rally on Saturday.
‘I do not expect the Washington Post to stop. I think they have a political agenda,’ he said.
Moore went on to accuse the paper, whose editorial board endorsed his Democratic opponent Doug Jones, of ‘yet another attack on my character and reputation in a desperate attempt to stop my political campaign for United States Senate.’
Moore told the audience at a Christian Citizen Task Force forum in Huntsville on Sunday he plans on suing the Post over its report.