*CNN announced late Wednesday they have suspended conservative pundit Paris Dennard after it was reported he was fired from a previous job for sexual misconduct.
The Washington Post reported that Dennard was terminated from his job at Arizona State University in 2014 “for making sexually explicit comments and gestures toward women, according to documents and a university official.”
While working as events director at the university’s McCain Institute for International Leadership, WaPo said that Dennard told a recent graduate who worked for him that he wanted to have sex with her. A university report said that he “pretended to unzip his pants in her presence, tried to get her to sit on his lap, and made masturbatory gestures.”
Dennard – praised by Donald Trump throughout his presidential campaign for singing his praises, and most recently for criticizing Phil Mudd, a former counterterrorism official with the CIA – ended up being hired by Trump during the campaign and is currently a member of his Commission on White House Fellowships.
In addition to being a CNN contributor, he wrote for The Hill and appeared on NPR’s Here & Now as a regular guest.
Below, some of Dennard’s greatest hits while trying to defend his employer’s racism:
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