Steve Scully suspended for lying about hacking his Twitter account

C-SPAN suspended presenter Steve Scully.Ron Edmonds / AP

The American television network C-SPAN suspended the emblematic journalist Steve Scully on Thursday.

The events occur after the same editor admitted that he lied when he claimed that his Twitter account had been hacked, shortly after having confronted Donald Trump's adviser, Anthony Scaramucci, on that social network, after the president of the The United States will accuse him of being biased in favor of the Democratic candidate for the presidency, Joe Biden.

The news of the dismissal came on the same day that the second electoral debate in the race for the White House was to be held, in which Scully, who has three decades of experience in the chain that has ordered his suspension, was going to be the moderator.

That moment was supposed to be one of his highest moments of his career so far, however, the debate never took place after Trump's positive for coronavirus and the president's refusal to carry out the debate electronically .

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The tweet that caused the controversy, and that was sent on October 8, read: "@Scaramucci, should I respond to Trump?"

The presidential adviser invited him to ignore the criticism he was receiving.

Shortly before, Trump himself had called Scully an "anti-Trump" activist.

But the scandal was not the tweet, it was the lie.

After sending the message, it went viral and received a large number of reactions, so many, that Scully defended herself saying that her account had been hacked.

His message had created a lot of controversy and he decided to pretend it had nothing to do with it.

However, the lie has short legs, and in an attempt to repair the damage caused to her image and that of the chain she works for, which defended her version of the hack in a statement, Scully sent a statement on Thursday. which explains your reasons.

Here's the full statement from @SteveScully and @cspan.

Scully: "Out of frustration, I sent a brief tweet addressed to Anthony Scaramucci. The next morning when I saw that this tweet had created a new controversy, I falsely claimed that my Twitter account had been hacked."

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In the statement, the following explanation can be read: “Frustrated, I sent a short tweet addressed to Anthony Scaramucci.

The next morning, when I saw that this tweet had created a new controversy, I falsely claimed that my Twitter account had been hacked. "

This apology has not stopped his sanction, and has given a new charge of gunpowder to Trump, who responded on his account of this social network: “He was right again!

Steve Scully just admitted he was lying about his Twitter being hacked. "

Even so, the chain has defended that Scully's performance has always been characterized by its "impartiality" and although they do not "tolerate" this error, they will surely "count" on it in the future.

Paradoxically, one of the most lenient towards Scully was Scaramucci, who said: "Brutal result for a tweet without political content or relevance."

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