"Grateful for the opportunity to keep bringing my passion for music, culture, and our community to the airwaves. Tampa Bay, thank you for rocking with me."
Journalists, pundits, and the Pima County sheriff in Arizona cited Ashleigh Banfield’s headline-grabbing theory on cable news as a disturbing example of how commentary can feed the rumor mill.
On social media, many news media members shared their displeasure with the video clip, some calling for President Trump's removal from office over the situation.
"Grateful for the opportunity to keep bringing my passion for music, culture, and our community to the airwaves. Tampa Bay, thank you for rocking with me."
"Our promise is to put on real life human voices in our radio hosts and podcasters. To ensure that there would always be a human, there had all sorts of consequences from listeners being so thankful for that promise. But also for our own employees."