{"id":31219,"date":"2020-10-09T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31219"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:50:27","slug":"why-was-democrat-steve-scully-even-chosen-to-moderate-the-2nd-potus-debate-especially-after-tweet-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31219","title":{"rendered":"Why was Democrat Steve Scully even chosen to moderate the 2nd POTUS debate, especially after Tweet fiasco?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;Fix&#8221; &#8211; Trump Slams Next Debate Moderator As &#8220;Never-Trumper&#8221; After Tweet Debacle<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Update (1135ET)<\/strong><\/u>: President Trump has jumped into the discussion, and rightly so, blasting Scully as a &#8220;Never-Trumper&#8221; and calling the debates a &#8220;fix&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1314589397388529664&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fnext-debate-moderator-accidentally-exposes-his-never-trump-bias&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1314589397388529664\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This follows\u00a0<strong>Scully&#8217;s deletion of his clearly unintended public tweet<\/strong>\u00a0(which some Democratic operatives have attempted to claim was a &#8216;<strong>hack<\/strong>&#8216;).<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><em>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/10\/09\/weird-next-debate-moderator-asks-former-white-house-comms-director-should-i-respond-to-trump\/\">Summit News&#8217; Steve Watson noted earlier,<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Steve Scully, the C-SPAN employee chosen by the Commission on Presidential Debates to moderate the second presidential debate (now in jeopardy),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/trump-accuses-swamp-monster-debate-organizers-colluding-dems-says-he-wont-allow-format\">has a long history of anti-Trump tweets and comments<\/a>. During his college days, he even interned in the Senate office of Sen. Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>But in a strange tweet that may have been intended as a direct message, the next presidential debate moderator asked former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci for advice about whether to &#8220;respond to Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/BIDEN_0.jpg?itok=pSsM7OS2\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/BIDEN_0.jpg?itok=pSsM7OS2\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/BIDEN_0.jpg?itok=nptR7wWE 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/BIDEN_0.jpg?itok=nptR7wWE 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/BIDEN_0.jpg?itok=nptR7wWE 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/BIDEN_0.jpg?itok=nptR7wWE 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/BIDEN_0.jpg?itok=nptR7wWE 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/BIDEN_0.jpg?itok=pSsM7OS2 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/BIDEN_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c2a4d696-a45e-4f99-8f6e-146ce1a6a8ab\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CSPAN\u2019s Steve Scully was recently chosen to host the debate, which now won\u2019t be happening as scheduled, prompting Trump supporters to monitor his activity more closely.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Scully tweeted out the weird question directed at Scaramucci, to which the former comms director responded &#8220;Ignore. He is having a hard enough time. Some more bad stuff about to go down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/MOOCH.jpg?itok=Zx6MTjAO\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/MOOCH.jpg?itok=Zx6MTjAO\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/MOOCH.jpg?itok=qqGNC56h 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/MOOCH.jpg?itok=qqGNC56h 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/MOOCH.jpg?itok=qqGNC56h 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/MOOCH.jpg?itok=qqGNC56h 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/MOOCH.jpg?itok=qqGNC56h 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/MOOCH.jpg?itok=Zx6MTjAO 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/MOOCH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"bc374ac3-cab0-49a4-b8a3-5f2f787d4b4c\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neither Scaramucci nor Scully have further commented on the tweet at time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Other Twitter users wondered what the hell this was all about:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1602258253973346166=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Nothing to see here. Just the next debate moderator accidentally tweeting when he meant to send a DM, conspiring against Trump with turncoat Mooch.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dqln0DQir6\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dqln0DQir6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Dice (@MarkDice)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkDice\/status\/1314393299113791498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/next-debate-moderator-accidentally-exposes-his-never-trump-bias\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/next-debate-moderator-accidentally-exposes-his-never-trump-bias<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fix&#8221; &#8211; Trump Slams Next Debate Moderator As &#8220;Never-Trumper&#8221; After Tweet Debacle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}