CNN, Jeffrey Lord Sever Ties

Jeffrey Lord, a regular cheerleader for President Trump as a contributor to CNN, will no longer appear on the network as of Thursday afternoon. The last straw was Lord tweeting "Sig Heil!" at Media Matters For America President Angelo Carusone.

"Nazi salutes are indefensible," a CNN spokesperson said in a statement, according to CNNMoney. "Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network." (For more national political news, sign up for the free White House Patch email newsletter.)

Lord, a columnist with The American Spectator, is a former White House political director under President Reagan and was an aide to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. He previously worked in various political positions in Pennsylvania. He lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

Lord and Carusone are frequent adversaries. In the midst of a Twitter spat, Lord on Thursday wrote a column for The American Spectator that called the latter's group "fascists."

CNN's Jeffrey Lord tweets "Sieg Heil!" https://t.co/S67s2vQj2D pic.twitter.com/LFPQW4pxJV
— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 10, 2017

In August 2015, Lord became the first "explicitly pro-Donald Trump" voice to join CNN, according to CNNMoney.

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