Jeff Lord fired from CNN after tweeting “Sieg Heil!” to Angelo Carusone, the president of Media Matters for America

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Jeffrey Lord, who is famous as Jeff Lord was fired from CNN on August 10, 2017.
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Why was Jeff Lord fired from CNN?

Jeffrey Lord is the indefatigable defender of President Donald Trump whose advocacy turned him into an unlikely political celebrity.

Before being fired from CNN, he served as an associate political director in the administration of former United States President Ronald Reagan.

Moreover, the famous American author and political-strategic were fired from CNN for using Nazi Slogan over the president of Media Matters for America, Angelo Carusone.

Source: Media Matters for America (Jeff Lord's controversial tweet0 — Source: Media Matters for America (Jeff Lord’s controversial tweet0

Later, on Thursday, August 10, 2017, Jeff Lord lost his job after a convoluted Twitter exchange in which he evoked — mockingly, he said — a Nazi salute.

After tweeting “Sieg Heil!” in response to a message from Angelo Carusone, the head of the liberal organization Media Matters, he received backlash and lost his job.

Source: Jewish Journal (Jeff Lord's controversial Seig Heil! tweet) — Source: Jewish Journal (Jeff Lord’s controversial Seig Heil! tweet)

The following day, in a statement, CNN said,

“Nazi salutes are indefensible and Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”

Explaining his tweet, Jeff said,

“I am mocking people who are using bully tactics in the style of fascists and Nazis to take people off the air, and I am the one who gets taken off the air.”

While on his way to CNN’s Manhattan studio in a town car provided by the network, Jeff Lord received a telephone call firing him.

Later, after the call, Jeff said,

“I didn’t have to walk; I thanked them for that.”

After losing his job at CNN, Jeff Lord accused the president of Media Matters, Angelo Carusone of emulating fascists by calling for sponsors to boycott Sean Hannity’s Fox News show.

Jeff further tweeted,

“And always have opposed. There is no room for this garbage.”

That same day, he expressed his thoughts on Twitter,

“This is a guy whose ravings have been -as cited- anti-Semitic etc etc. This crap cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.”

Jeff Lord was CNN’s most often-seen Trump surrogate. He signed with the network in August 2015. His CNN career ended on August 10, 2017.

Source: nytimes (Jeffrey Lord in CNN office in 2016) — Source: NYTimes (Jeffrey Lord in CNN office in 2016)

After losing the job, he said that he loved CNN and respected Jeffrey A. Zucker, the network’s president.

He also said that he found his firing ‘incredibly ironic.’

Jeff Lord’s Relationship with President Trump

Jeff Lord has been a supporter of Donald Trump for a long time. He became a pro-Trump contributor in July 2015. Since then, he has been working as the indefatigable defender of President Trump.

Source: Daily Express (Jeffrey Lord, Donald Trump, Bill Maher)

Critics have several times castigated Jeff Lord for his relentless lobbying on behalf of Mr. Trump. He was also once rebuked on air by Anderson Cooper in particularly crude terms.

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Short bio of Jeff Lord

Jeffrey Lord is an American citizen. He is also a journalist, author as well as a political strategist in Pennsylvania and is a huge supporter of President Donald Trump. More bio…

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