Toobin wrote, "Friends, I've decided that, after 20 years, I'm leaving @cnn after my vacation. Spending my last day on air with pals Wolf, Anderson, and Don was great. I love all my former colleagues. Watch for my next book, about the Oklahoma City bombing, coming in 2023 from @simonandschuster."
In October of 2021, Toobin was a New Yorker contributor yet was suspended after he was caught masturbating on a heavily attended Zoom conference call with his co-workers. As "Zoom Dick" trended on Twitter, Toobin stated, "I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends, and co-workers."
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Toobin reiterated how he believed he was not visible as he self-pleasured and announced, "I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video."
The 60-year-old Toobin has been a New Yorker writer for over 20 years and joined CNN in 2002. He is the author of several books, most recently “True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump,” published in August. His other works include “The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson” and “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.”
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Not long after, he was fired from the New Yorker. Condé Nast's chief people officer Stan Duncan wrote: "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."
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CNN further placed him on leave after the incident yet welcomed him back in June of 2021.
Alisyn Camerota questioned, "What the hell were you thinking?" "Well obviously, I wasn't thinking very much," Toobin answered.
Some CNN workers were displeased by Toobin's return, and one anonymous female CNN employee stated, "The way [the network] brought him back on air was a bit inappropriate in terms of a full segment of mea culpa and then a hard pivot to his legal analysis on air."
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Throughout his tenure at CNN, Toobin championed "creepy porn lawyer" Michael Avenatti and referred to Kyle Rittenhouse as an "idiot," among other contributions, and is now working on a book about the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995.