CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford deleted a controversial post amplifying a heckler of Abdul El-Sayed (D), Sunday, and apologized for violating CBS News standards.
“Earlier, I tweeted a video from an Abdul El-Sayed town hall,” Crawford wrote on X. “I deleted that tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards. I apologize.”
In her now-deleted post, Crawford wrote, “Tommy, thank you. I had to watch this twice to catch Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s nanosecond, ‘yeah, absolutely,’ response. His subsequent uninterrupted diatribe proving your exact point is the kind of spectacular self-own is the kind ppl only dream about triggering. Congrats.”
Her now-deleted response includes video of the exchange between the heckler known as “Tommy,” and El-Sayed, who’s running for a Senate seat in Michigan.
Left-wing independent journalist Marisa Kabas identified “Tommy” as a right-wing plant. She wrote:
Tommy’s father is Timmy Teepell, a Republican strategist who worked for congressman and then Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal from 2004 to 2011; he also ran Jindal’s ill-fated presidential primary campaign in 2015. He joined the consulting firm OnMessage in 2011, and helped the virtually unknown [Josh] Hawley get elected Attorney General of Missouri in 2016. Two years later, he helped Hawley become a United States Senator.
Before Crawford deleted her post, media watchdogs pounced on Crawford’s post. Terry Moran — who was fired from ABC after a partisan post blasting White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller — denounced Crawford’s partisan post:
JFK put an end to this nonsense. Until now.
Listen to Kennedy’s fierce defense of our Constitution in the face of rank religious bigotry.
My parents were Catholics and patriots. My dad was a paratrooper in WWII.
They faced the same hatred. Enough.https://t.co/RcRuZg82Po https://t.co/urrtTfrYez
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— Terry Moran
(@TerryMoran) October 18, 2026
Media watchdogs likewise called out Crawford’s post:
And left-leaning critics ripped Craqford:
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