Jeffrey Toobin, who exposed himself to New Yorker colleagues on Zoom, exits CNN
- The legal analyst was fired from the magazine after the incident, but only suspended at CNN, where he was allowed back on air after 8 months
- Toobin announced his departure from the network on Twitter
Jeffrey Toobin, a long-time legal analyst at CNN who became engulfed in scandal for exposing himself to his colleagues at The New Yorker in a Zoom meeting, announced on Friday that he is leaving the network.
Toobin has been with CNN for 20 years. He made his departure public in a tweet.
Toobin was fired by the New Yorker on November 11, 2020, after what was perhaps the most famously humiliating snafu of the work-at-home era created by the Covid-19 pandemic.
On October 19, 2020, Toobin exposed his genitals during a virtual meeting with staffers from the New Yorker and WNYC radio in preparation for presidential election coverage.
But Toobin faced only a suspension at CNN, where he was allowed to return to the air after eight months.
When he returned, he described the incident as “an embarrassingly stupid mistake”.
However, with personnel cuts expected across CNN parent Warner Bros. Discovery, Toobin apparently became expendable, especially since the news network has no shortage of legal analysts to put on the air.