As Twitchy reported earlier, the Fairfax County Police Department has confirmed that Rick Saleeby, former senior producer on “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” is under criminal investigation after he was busted by Project Veritas for soliciting explicit photos of his fiancé’s underage daughter. CNN is quick to note that Saleeby is a former employee, as he resigned when the scandal broke.
We haven’t seen any coverage of this from CNN hall monitors Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, and we doubt Tapper is going to do a piece on his former senior producer. This tweet of his from 2017 has been resurrected now, though, and it hasn’t aged well.
if you dont care about sex crimes against children, and how adults get away with it, then i dont know what to say
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 18, 2017
This aged like a fine wine. pic.twitter.com/cp6Rj4ukh7
— CJP (@forgotten1music) December 30, 2021
Oof
— Doug Roberman (@DougRoberman) December 30, 2021
Any coverage planned on this?
— Frozen Eggroll (@FrozenEgroll) December 30, 2021
Interesting tweet. Will you cover your producer? pic.twitter.com/9jyEvTuCov
— Andre (@TotalDreMove) December 30, 2021
— A.C. Dallas (@AC1Dallas) December 30, 2021
Note that this is the second CNN producer under criminal investigation; as Tucker Carlson put it, CNN has a pedo problem.
do, tell us Jake?
— Tony FJB Bruno (@TonyBrunoShow) December 30, 2021
— Pearly (@PearlyPatty89) December 30, 2021
— SOVEREIGN SHAQ 🇸🇻 🌋 (@shaqtoshi) December 30, 2021
Don’t be shy, Jake. Cover it…
— 🇺🇸Anthony Draghi🇺🇸 (@AnthonyMDraghi) December 30, 2021
This aged well
— Marcus (@MarcusWooley2) December 30, 2021
There's a Spiderman meme somewhere
— Jeff Miller (@alizak68) December 30, 2021
Awkward
— Kevin Topciu (@Ktopciu5) December 30, 2021
Well said Jake!
— IndependentVoter (@LHUForReal) December 30, 2021
Just here for the comments.
— Tommy King (@King_Slayer1203) December 30, 2021
— Paul Molive (@PeterMawlive) December 30, 2021
Say something
— aplasticcap🙉 (@aplasticcap) December 30, 2021
To be fair, it’s almost certain Tapper had any idea any of this was going on, so his former tweet still stands.
https://twitter.com/restaurant_xprt/status/1476519863518732288
— Trevor (@tpolomsky28) December 30, 2021
The Toobin network. What do you expect.
— John James (@johncxgx) December 30, 2021
A bit too on the nose, as they say
— Bill Boyd (@billboyd1967) December 30, 2021
— Grateful one (@yogurtpro) December 30, 2021
Bruh
— MasterGruber (@twain27) December 30, 2021
Awkward 🥴
— EwanRobb (@Ewan_Robb) December 30, 2021
Just let them know they are welcome at CNN.
— MilesTWater (@MilesTWater) December 30, 2021
Well now's your chance to walk the talk.
— Monika WhiteWolf (@MonikaWhiteWolf) December 30, 2021
Came here for gifs in comments.. all golden. pic.twitter.com/G8v9qxR9Sc
— Hursh (@hurshidn) December 30, 2021
Man I have news to share about your network.
— RedPill&Curry (@RedPillandCurry) December 30, 2021
Related:
‘WTF is going on at CNN’? Jake Tapper’s now-former senior producer under investigation for ‘serious allegations involving potential juvenile victims’ https://t.co/h5K8H40KRL
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 30, 2021