Jeffrey Lord, Trump Defender on CNN, Is Fired for Using Nazi Slogan
Mr. Lord received the news by telephone while on his way to CNN’s Manhattan studio in a
town car provided by the network, which ferried him from his home near Harrisburg, Pa.
After Mr. Lord, 66, learned that his contract had been severed, the car turned around.
Mr. Trump was a fan, once calling Mr. Lord on his cellphone while he was on air; Mr. Lord excused himself
and then reported back to his stunned fellow panelists what Mr. Trump had to say.
Still, he said that he found his firing “incredibly ironic.”
“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,” he said.
“Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”
Mr. Lord, a veteran of the Reagan White House, became CNN’s first paid pro-Trump contributor in July 2015.
Mr. Lord had recently accused Angelo Carusone, president of the liberal watchdog site Media Matters,
of emulating fascists by calling for sponsors to boycott Sean Hannity’s Fox News show.
(CNN said it had already been considering Mr. Lord for a job.)
