NBC Hits Disgraced Zucker for Hiring Trump, Forgets His Cheerleading for Lauer

[See NewsBusters for full story.] NBC on Thursday discovered the most disgraceful thing that ex-Today show producer Jeff Zucker did, now that he’s resigned from CNN after a sex scandal: Zucker hired Donald Trump back in the ‘90s. Zucker left CNN on Wednesday as a casualty in disgraced Chris Cuomo’s war against his former network. It was announced that that Zucker had been hiding a consensual relationship with a vice president, Allison Gollust. However, on NBC’s Today, Emilie Ikeda revealed the real scandal: "Before CNN, the pair [Zucker and Gollust] starting their careers and climbing the ladder at NBC, Zucker as executive producer of the Today show and president and CEO of NBC Universal at the head when NBC hired Donald Trump as the host of The Apprentice. The relationship later souring as the former President’s relationships with the Press and CNN turned contentious."