Oct 19, 2020
CNN, New Yorker Suspend Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin For Masturbating During A Zoom Call
He obfuscates what he was doing by being purposefully vague.
“I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,” Mr. Toobin said in a statement to Vice, which reported the incident and the magazine’s investigation.
“I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers.”
“I believed I was not visible on Zoom,” Mr. Toobin said of the call, which Vice, citing unnamed sources, said took place last week.
“I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.” Mr. Toobin could not be immediately reached on Monday afternoon.
Would it have been any better if he did know?
