You might say that hate-Trump leftist Jeffrey Toobin’s career has climaxed.
The New Yorker fired the star writer on Wednesday, a month after he was caught masturbating in a Zoom meeting with other journalists.
What CNN, another leftist media outlet that has given Toobin free rein to attack the president for four years, will do with the 60-year-old is unknown.
How the network might justify continuing to employ Toobin we aren’t given to know. We do know that Toobin has made a career of bashing the moral failings of others, not least the man in the White House.
We also know The New Yorker’s firing is too little too late. Toobin has been misbehaving and mistreating women for years, and his employer certainly knew it.
“I Thought … No One Could See Me”
Toobin’s trouble began when he opted for a unique approach to journalism in the locked down Zoom world the Left so desires.
“Two people who were on the call told VICE separately that the call was an election simulation featuring many of the New Yorker’s biggest stars,” Vice reported at the time:
Jane Mayer was playing establishment Republicans; Evan Osnos was Joe Biden, Jelani Cobb was establishment Democrats, Masha Gessen played Donald Trump, Andrew Marantz was the far right, Sue Halpern was left wing democrats, Dexter Filkins was the military, and Jeffrey Toobin playing the courts. There were also a handful of other producers on the call from the New Yorker and WNYC.
Vice’s sources saw Toobin in the act after the two sides, “Republican” and “Democrat,” took a break. “At this point, they said, it seemed like Toobin was on a second video call,” the webzine reported. When they returned to the meeting, “Toobin lowered the camera,” and the people in the Zoom call saw Toobin touching himself.
“Moments later, he called back in, seemingly unaware of what his colleagues had been able to see, and the simulation continued,” Vice reported.
It sounds more like the stimulation continued, but in any event, Toobin was caught.
“I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers,” Toobin confessed. “I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.”
I’ll Pay for the Abortion
That explanation doesn’t make much sense, but it doesn’t much matter. This week, Condé Nast, The New Yorker’s publisher, jettisoned the horny scribe, which Toobin confirmed in a tweet.
Stan Duncan, the company’s “chief people officer,” delivered the news to Toobin’s colleagues, the Daily Beast reported.
“I am writing to share with you that our investigation regarding Jeffrey Toobin is complete, and as a result, he is no longer affiliated with our company,” he wrote. “I want to assure everyone that we take workplace matters seriously. We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels respected and upholds our standards of conduct.”
If the company were that concerned about “fostering an environment where everyone feels respected and upholds our standards of conduct,” it would have given Toobin the pink slip a long time ago.
Toobin is a cad and a pervert, news reports from 10 years ago show.
“I was at a party in Washington,” a woman told the New York Daily News, and “he came up behind me and whispered in my ear.”
What Toobin whispered was so filthy even the Daily News wouldn’t publish it, but what the man who monitors the morals of Donald Trump said “was so disgusting” the woman recalled. “At the time, I never even knew people did that.”
Reported the Daily News:
The woman says Toobin “really chased me for a while. He called me at the office and left several sick messages.” Again, we can’t repeat them. Suffice it to say, he allegedly reiterated his first overture, only more graphically. Says the woman, “It was so vile.” She assures us the episode went nowhere.
Toobin worked for CNN and The New Yorker when the Daily News revealed the story.
The married Toobin also worked for both outfits when his adultery with Casey Greenfield, the daughter of TV political analyst Jeff Greenfield, resulted in a pregnancy.
Toobin pushed her to murder the unborn child. He offered to pay for the abortion, the Daily News reported, and even worse, he offered to pay for Greenfield to have another baby with a sperm donor.
Greenfield refused. And until her attorney threatened to garnish Toobin’s wages, he wouldn’t fully pay court-ordered child support.
Despite all this, CNN and The New Yorker continued to employ Toobin, and Doubleday published his attack on Trump, True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump.
