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