Steve Scully just admitted he was lying about his Twitter being hacked. The Debate was Rigged!” the president wrote. “He was suspended from @cspan indefinitely. The Trump Campaign was not treated.
© Provided by Washington Examiner- C-SPAN suspends Steve Scully after he admits to lying about Twitter hack Scully was supposed to moderate the second debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, but that debate never happened.
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- Steve Scully Getting Hacked Was a Lie. Scully, it was just announced, has been suspended indefinitely after coming clean about the Twitter hack, or lack thereof. “I falsely claimed that my Twitter account had been hacked,” he said in a statement.
A top official on the Commission on Presidential Debates said the Twitter account of C-SPAN's Steve Scully was hacked following a tweet to former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci asking for advice on whether he should 'respond to' President Trump's attacks on him.
The tweet was sent Thursday evening, setting off a wave of criticism on social media as it raised concerns about the journalist's impartiality.
By Friday, the tweet was deleted, but not before Scaramucci responded.
'Ignore. He is having a hard enough time. Some more bad stuff about to go down,' Scaramucci said late Thursday.
Ignore. He is having a hard enough time. Some more bad stuff about to go down. https://t.co/cMphfQJELL
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) October 9, 2020Scaramucci was fired from the White House in the summer of 2017 after less than two weeks on the job as communications director and has since become an outspoken critic of Trump.
Frank Fahrenkopf, the co-chairman for the Commission on Presidential Debates, said on the Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox News Radio on Friday that the tweet was not sent by Scully himself. 'He was hacked. It didn't happen,' he said.
Just in- @debates co-chair Frank Fahrenkopf says debate #2 moderator Steve Scully's twitter account was hacked: 'Apparently something now that's being on television and on the radio saying that... he's been talking to #Scaramucci. He was hacked. It didn't happen'
— Rocco Aloe (@Rocco_FNC) October 9, 2020Scully was picked to moderate the next presidential debate, which was scheduled to be held on Oct. 15. But after Trump tested positive for COVID-19 last week, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that the next debate would be held virtually, a change the president said he would not accept.
Trump has repeatedly chastised Scully. He said during a Fox Business interview Thursday morning that he thought Scully was a 'nice guy' but heard he is a 'Never Trumper.' That appeared to be in reference to reports that have been published in right-leaning media about Scully doing some intern work for Joe Biden when he was a senator decades ago.
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© Leah Millis/Reuters President Donald Trump arrives at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., October 1, 2020.Upcoming presidential debate host Steve Scully drew attention for a deleted tweet — possibly intended as a direct message — to outspoken anti-Trump figure Anthony Scaramucci asking whether he should “respond” to criticism directed his way by President Trump.
“@Scaramucci should I respond to trump,” Scully tweeted.
JUST IN: Steve Scully — moderator of the next presidential debate, accidentally tweets out DM he meant to send to Scaramucci about President Trump pic.twitter.com/gvD3Zz4xEm
— SV News (@SVNewsAlerts) October 9, 2020
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Scaramucci, who lasted only 11 days as White House communications director in 2018, responded: “Ignore. He is having a hard enough time. Some more bad stuff about to go down.”
Scully later deleted the tweet. While C-SPAN did not return a request for comment on what Scully, billed as an impartial journalist, was referencing, the post came after Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity in a Thursday night interview that Scully is a “never-Trumper, and I think somebody said he worked for Biden at one point.” Scully interned in Biden’s office in the 1970s.
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“These are the people we get, and that’s OK because I’ve had some bad ones over the years and I’ve got an unblemished record I think in the debating world,” Trump continued. “But I will say this, that it is a very sad thing. Now you have, this debate commission’s a joke. The commission’s a joke.”
Following Scully’s tweet, White House deputy communications director Brian Morgenstern told Fox News that Scully “certainly seems not to be very impartial.”
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“I love The Mooche, but he’s gone way off the deep end,” Moregenstern said. “He is a wild-eyed critic of the president at this point. And now to have a debate moderator seeking his advice. I think the cat’s out of the bag. I don’t think Mr. Scully is impartial. So that really calls into question, again, the debate commission’s judgment here.”
Following his short stint as White House communications director, Scaramucci began harshly criticizing the president during frequent appearances on cable news and even called for his impeachment.
Scully’s town hall, set for next week, is in limbo after President Trump said he would not participate following an announcement from the Commission on Presidential Debates that “candidates would participate from separate remote locations.”
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