“Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted,” CNN said in a statement. He did, however, appear on CNN, where he is the network’s chief legal analyst, on Saturday. Toobin’s Conde Nast email has been disabled and he has not tweeted since October 13. In a segment with anchor Alisyn Camerota that lasted nearly nine minutes, Toobin apologized for the incident that occurred last October and said he is “trying to become the person that people can trust again.New Yorker spokesperson Natalie Raabe said: “Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended while we investigate the matter.” “There are literally thousands of BIPOC women who could do what Jeffrey Toobin does, better than he does, all without ever masturbating on a Zoom chat, but God forbid we give one of them a shot,” one Twitter user lamented.
Social media lit up following the CNN segment, with many users outraged that Toobin essentially got to shake off his bad behavior. “The New Yorker made one decision about the consequences, CNN made a different decision. I am not going to come up here and try to split hairs and try to come up with justifications … I am incredibly grateful to CNN for taking me back.”
“The only issue is what should be the consequences.” “There is no defense for my conduct,” he said. Jeffrey Toobin appeared repentant about the Zoom call incident, but he stopped short of agreeing his firing from The New Yorker was fair, saying it was, in fact, “excessive”.
Toobin, who was swiftly fired from The New Yorker last year for his conduct, listened as daytime anchor Alisyn Camerota had the painfully awkward “honors” of describing what happened and its consequences CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin addresses Zoom masturbation scandal in awkward return to network: ‘I wasn’t thinking’ “Well, obviously, I wasn’t thinking very well or very much,” the 61-year-old replied, Fox News reported, going on to say that masturbating in front of his colleagues - an act he insists was an accident - was “moronic and indefensible”. In an at times excruciating nine-minute segment that aired Thursday, CNN’s disgraced legal analyst was interviewed by Alisyn Camerota, who asked him how the shocking incident occurred - and also gave him ample opportunity for a mea culpa.Īfter gravely recounting the saga that led to his firing from The New Yorker after 27 years, Camerota bluntly asked Toobin “What the hell were you thinking?” Jeffrey Toobin has been welcomed back to CNN after disappearing from the network for more than eight months, after he was caught masturbating on a Zoom call with colleagues at The New Yorker.
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