jeff lord
=<div>re?tweet nazi salute, fired by cnn
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</div><div>=</div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></p><p><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/17/trump-s-kitchen-cabinet-continued-what-media-needs-know-about-nominee-s-top-advisers-and-supporters/212477">https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/17/trump-s-kitchen-cabinet-continued-what-media-needs-know-about-nominee-s-top-advisers-and-supporters/212477</a></font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="line-height: 18.5714px;">Lord, a contributor to the conservative</span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px;"> </span><em style="line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box;">American Spectator</em><span style="line-height: 18.5714px;">, has been a big booster of Trump’s candidacy. CNN </span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/24/jeffrey-lord-is-cnns-on-staff-donald-trump-apol/205768" style="line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">hired Lord</a><span style="line-height: 18.5714px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px;">to present a pro-Trump point of view.</span></span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to Lord, Trump helped land him the gig. The </span><em style="line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box;">Patriot-News</em><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">reported last year, “Lord said Trump complained to CNN execs that the network only featured commentators who didn't get him, so CNN asked The Donald who in the world of conservative media he would suggest, and he said Jeffrey Lord.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What You Need To Know</font></em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lord <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/08/11/new-cnn-hire-jeffrey-lord-is-an-anti-immigrant/204860" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">infamously</span></a> tried to prove that a black man who was beaten to death was not technically lynched, a position that was even condemned by his colleagues at the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Spectator</em>. During his CNN appearances, Lord has defended Trump’s attack on Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/02/29/cnns-jeffrey-lord-defends-trumps-refusal-to-dis/208874" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">excused</span></a> Trump’s failure to disavow the KKK, and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/03/01/cnns-trump-apologist-get-schooled-on-trumps-rel/208942" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">described</span></a> the Klan as a “leftist terrorist organization.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lord</span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/28/cnns-jeffrey-lord-dismisses-gun-control-and-blames-pro-choice-movement-gun-violence/211971" style="line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">blamed</a><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the pro-choice movement for gun violence and</span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/08/01/right-wing-figures-defending-trump-s-attacks-khan-family/212067" style="line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">attacked</a><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the family of deceased Army Captain Humayun Khan for speaking at the Democratic National Convention. He also echoed the Trump campaign by</span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/09/cnn-s-brian-stelter-rebukes-jeffrey-lord-pushing-stolen-election-claims-please-dont-do-our-viewers/212259" style="line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">promoting</a><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the conspiracy theory that the election “could be stolen.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--</span></font></p></div><div>==</div></div>