CNN confirmed Wednesday that Jake Tapper’s producer, Rick Saleeby, resigned from his position after it was revealed that he allegedly solicited sexually explicit photos of an underage girl, Post Millenial reported. Fairfax County police also reportedly confiscated devices from his residence.
The news broke to Twitter via Jack Posobiec of Human Events.
Rick Saleeby was a CNN producer for “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
The allegations of his inappropriate behavior were revealed by Project Veritas, which included texts about fantasies of molesting his fiance’s daughter.
In one exchange, Saleeby described his fiance’s daughter’s light clothing when at the pool, saying that she was “wearing very closely cut bottoms at the pool.” He then went on to describe the girl’s pubic area in a vulgar manner.
Janine Banani, a woman who was in a relationship with Saleeby for over a decade, joined Project Veritas for the expose. Banani provided a recording of a man who was allegedly Salbeeby that said “…after I’m done having my mouth on her, I’m going to walk up and put my crotch very close to her face… slowly unzip my zipper and just guide her head a little closer and I’m just going to have her kiss the head and I’m going to put her hand on it so she can feel what the hard flesh feels like.”
The producer has castigated others for similar inappropriate behavior in the past.
“He had already been accused of things prior. But he would make advances if there was a social gathering and they were drunk, put his arms around them, try and touch their leg,” Saleeby had previously said about another colleague.
“Try and build up emails to the level where he would get flirty and inappropriate. I’ll tell you this. In the climate that’s going on now, he definitely would have been fired,” said Saleeby, referring to the #MeToo movement in 2018.
Saleeby may soon be facing charges for various alleged inappropriate behaviors, appearing in a Fairfax County, Virginia court just this week.
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