C-SPAN Suspends Steve Scully After He Admits to Lying About Twitter Hacking

Steve Scully of C-SPAN, right, speaks during the White House Correspondents Association dinner as then-First Lady Michelle Obama listens, at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington on May 9, 2009. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

C-SPAN placed political editor Steve Scully on administrative leave Thursday after he made false statements about his Twitter account being hacked.

Scully, in a statement, admitted that he lied about making a statement to Anthony Scaramucci, a former aide to President Donald Trump who became a critic. “I am totally responsible” for the post, he said.