Managing Editor of the blog site News Busters, Curtis Houck, remarked, “Your turn, CNN” in a tweet Thursday. There were mixed reactions to Toobin’s firing on social media. Vice News had also quoted two anonymous sources who claimed they saw Toobin masturbating.Ī Harvard alumna, Toobin is also the author of bestsellers like ‘True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump’ published in August this year and ‘The Run of His Life: The People v OJ Simpson’ published in 1996 which was adapted into a web series.Īlso read: Social media conversations supporting herd immunity driven by bots, says study I thought I had muted the Zoom video,” Toobin had told Vice News last month following his suspension. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera…I believed I was not visible on Zoom. The 60-year-old writer, also a former associate counsel in the US Department of Justice, had been on suspension up until this point and was also on a leave of absence from CNN.
Instead, Toobin took a leave of absence from the network, only to sheepishly return to the CNN’s air eight months later-a decision that was met with a mixed reaction from some from the network’s staffers.In a recent statement, Stan Duncan, Chief People Officer of Conde Naste, the magazine’s parent company, said that after an internal investigation, Toobin was “no longer affiliated with our company”. But CNN did not take similar action against him. Toobin was infamously fired from his longtime staff writing job at The New Yorker in late 2020 after he inappropriately exposed and touched himself during a Zoom call with colleagues.
“We are grateful for Jeffrey’s contributions to the network over the years and wish him all the best in his future endeavors,” the network stated. It’s been a privilege (and fun) being your colleague.” While it isn’t clear just yet if Toobin’s contract merely ran out, CNN’s statement about his exit suggests it was a mutual parting. “It was great to spend my last day on air, like so many before, with my pals at Sit Room, AC360 and Don Lemon Tonight. “I wanted to let you know that after twenty years I’ve decided to leave CNN after my vacation,” he wrote in a letter to colleagues on Friday, which he reiterated on Twitter. Jeffrey Toobin is no longer a paid legal analyst for CNN, the network he has worked for since 2002.
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