Scottie Nell Hughes
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</div><div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Scottie Nell Hughes</b> is a cable news pundit and</span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.thewrap.com/cnn-hires-trump-supporter-scottie-nell-hughes/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">CNN contributor</a><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">who has often spoken in defense of Donald Trump.</span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><em style="line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box;">Glamour</em><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.glamour.com/story/what-its-like-when-defending-donald-trump-is-your-job" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">notes</a> </span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">she “has been on the front line for Trump campaign since she introduced him at a September mega rally in Dallas.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; line-height: 18.5714px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What You Need To Know</font></em></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; line-height: 18.5714px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hughes was previously the news director for the “Tea Party News Network.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” She uses odd logic to launch </span><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/04/03/cecily_strong_plays_scottie_nell_hughes_but_underplays_the_role.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">defenses</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of Trump’s actions.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; line-height: 18.5714px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When some called for riots at the Republican convention in defense of Trump, Hughes told CNN “it’s not riots as in a negative thing.” Hughes said that Trump’s statement that women should be punished for abortions had been “misconstrued,” and that the media paying attention to Trump’s sexist tweets is unfair.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; line-height: 18.5714px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hughes <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/23/cnn-trump-supporter-laments-use-spanish-tim-kaine-s-vp-speech/211852" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;">lamented</a> that Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) uses Spanish in his speeches, saying, “I’m hoping I’m not going to have to kind of start brushing up back on my Dora the Explorer to understand some of the speeches given” during the Democratic convention.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She also</span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/07/27/cnn-panel-aghast-trump-supporters-claim-hillary-clintons-nomination-tearing-down-men/211932" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; line-height: 18.5714px; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">claimed</a><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">that Hillary Clinton’s presidential nomination is “tearing down men.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></p></div><div></div>