C-SPAN anchor Steve Scully, who was suspended from the public affairs network for three months last year for falsely claiming his Twitter feed had been hacked, will begin a new job at the Bipartisan Policy Center next month
The controversy unfolded shortly after Scully — who served as senior executive producer and political editor for C-SPAN —last September by the Commission on Presidential Debates as moderator for the second televised forum between Trump and then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden. That debate, originally scheduled to take place less than three weeks before Election Day, was to be staged in Miami as a town-hall style event.
The Trump campaign had previously submitted to the commission a list of two dozen suggested moderators — consisting mostly of Fox News personalities and other conservative pundits — and had argued for the scheduling of a fourth debate last September to account for a possible spike in pandemic-related early voting. The commissionThe planned second debate never took place, however, after the commission announced the event would be conducted virtually in the wake of Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis.
Around the same time, Trump stepped up his attacks on Scully after a post appeared on the journalist’s Twitter account asking Scaramucci whether he should “respond to trump.” Scully and the debate commission leadership, but Scully said in a statement a week later that the hacking claim was untrue. “These actions have let down a lot of people, including my colleagues at C-SPAN, where I have worked for the past 30 years, professional colleagues in the media, and the team at the Commission on Presidential Debates,” Scully said at the time. “I ask for their forgiveness as I try to move forward in a moment of reflection and disappointment in myself.”
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