Jeffrey Toobin Tweets About David Pecker At Trump Trial, Infamous Zoom Mistake Takes On New Life

The year 2020 forced a great many Americans to get up to speed on a new app called Zoom, which allowed them to continue working and learning online during lockdowns.

Zoom presented a learning curve for some. Mistakes happened. Unexpected guests appeared on mundane business meetings – occasionally in their underpants – to liven things up. 

Some luminaries, though, pushed the boundaries of what was possible in this brave new world. People like former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. 

By now, you've heard the story. Toobin masturbated in front of then-New Yorker colleagues in October 2020, thinking he had shut off his camera. 

The New Yorker fired him over the incident. CNN suspended him, then allowed him to return before an abrupt exit two years later.

Toobin has since resorted to writing dubiously-cited tell-alls about "right-wing extremism" and sporadic, likely unpaid, appearances on CNN. 

And tweeting. 

Toobin tweets a lot – and gets mercilessly mocked for his efforts.

He has disabled comments under his posts. A man can only take so many jokes about "jerking off" and "Lubin' and Toobin."

That hasn't stopped critics and jokesters from making a mess of his timelines at @JeffreyToobin.

Nearly every one of his posts is bombarded with references to his infamous Zoom performance. The quips are often instantaneous, posted immediately after Toobin hits publish. 

So it was today when Toobin chimed in on the Trump hush money trial in New York. Unfortunately for Toobin, the first witness in that case was David Pecker. The jokes write themselves:

Maybe Toobin should not post the word "Pecker" online – even if it is merely a reference to the former National Enquirer publisher who testified against Donald Trump on Monday.

But it's not just Pecker's that bring out the online comedians. Even the most mundane posts @JeffreyToobin are met with instant, robust shaming:

Cyberbullying is never fun. We certainly don't condone it. And aside from Toobin giving his coworkers the horrible memory of him jerking off, he didn't harm anyone. 

So, we certainly don't encourage sending Toobin mean posts about whacking off. 

That said, we also don't blame those who participate in the "#LubinToobin" movement. It is his fault. Toobin's weird, hypocritical attitude practially begs to be mocked.

For example, in 2021, one year after he dropped his pants on a Zoom call, he labeled Kyle Rittenhouse "lucky" that it "is not illegal to be an idiot."

"What kind of idiot 17-year-old gets a giant gun and goes to a riot? He has no license, he has no training, he thinks he's going to scrub graffiti off with his AR-15? I mean, the stupidity of this. What could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot went wrong," Toobin commented.  "The good news for Kyle Rittenhouse is that he's not on trial for being an idiot, he's on trial for homicide."

While an unofficial rule of thumb, those who accidentally wack off in front of co-workers on a video call shouldn't call others "idiots." 

I mean, how did he not expect such comments to follow?

Last week, Toobin called Justice Clarence Thomas a "disgrace." 

That particular jab sent Toobin into the crosshairs of Megyn Kelly, whose subsequent body blow amassed 2.8 million impressions:

Toobin's post now sits at 5.8 million impressions, with a staggering 7,900 quote tweets – some of which are too good not to highlight:

Look, X is not for everybody. X is not for Jeffrey Toobin.

We would suggest TikTok, but encouraging The Toob to post on-camera videos online would be irresponsible.