Trita Parsi

CNN, CBS.

The guy's name is Jay Solomon, who is a former... He was fired from Wall Street Journal for ethical violations.

He was apparently involved in an arms deal with one of his sources in the region.

As a reporter?

As a reporter, yes.

So they fired him in 2017, I believe.

he was involved in an arms deal?

Yeah, I mean, this is all public.

If I remember the details correctly, he was involved in a lot of different business deals with this source that he was relying on a lot for his reporting.

And at least some of those business deals were actually arms deals in the region.

And he was covering the region.

But it's funny again, you can commit something as egregious as that.

and still have a successful journalistic career afterwards, as long as you're on that side of the aisle, because that's where the money is.

And she made a name for herself countering cancel culture, and most of what she's doing right now is exactly that.

Well, I don't know if it was falsely in the sense that, again, I don't have full insight, but we had a lot of conversations as well as folk inside the administration that it made it clear this is not actually happening.

And it may have been that there was a rogue element inside the administration who was wanting to push this.

You know, Laura Loomer had been tweeting about this for weeks trying to get me deported.

Really?

Oh yeah, Laura Loomer had like 7,000 retweets on all of her tweets trying to get me deported.

This has been going on for several weeks.