When some of his colleagues returned to the call, they could see Toobin touching himself. "Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended while we investigate the matter," the New Yorker said in a statement.Īccording to VICE, the call was an election simulation, and Toobin decided to pleasure himself during a ten-minute break. The New Yorker, where Toobin works as a reporter, also suspended him. Toobin was in a conference call with his colleagues at the New Yorker and a local radio station when he allegedly began to masturbate, thinking he was off-camera. “Other people will weigh in about whether it was appropriate for them to get rid of me, and of CNN to keep me.Jeffrey Toobin, CNN's chief legal analyst, has been placed on leave after he exposed himself during a Zoom call. I assume, I hope, they will be at least mixed,” Toobin said of the reaction to his return to CNN.
“Look, I live in the world, I know social media, what the reactions are likely to be. “This was not the straw that broke the camel’s back this was the only incident.” … I thought this punishment was excessive, but that is why they don’t ask the criminal to be the judge in his own case.” He added that he was “incredibly grateful” to CNN for bringing him back.Ĭamerota also asked Toobin about the investigation that led to his firing: “They looked at my entire career at The New Yorker and found that there had been no complaints about me, no issues,” Toobin said. “Above all, I am sorry to my wife and family, I am sorry to everyone on the Zoom call, I am sorry to my former colleagues at The New Yorker, I am sorry to my current and fortunately still colleagues at CNN, and I am sorry to everyone who read my work and watched me on CNN and thought I was a better person than this,” Toobin added.Īsked about his departure from the venerable publication, Toobin said, “I loved The New Yorker, I loved working there.
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