He didn't. The timestamps (some you can see on the forums and some you cannot, but we can) show the original post was made 3:37PM and was deleted until several minutes later (more than 15). Anyone, moderator or not, could have "replied with quote" at any time during those 15 or so minutes and quoted the deleted text, as LDB has illustrated quite well. They could have waited hours and hours to actually post their quoted reply. Once quoted, deleting the original post will not remove the quoted text from the reply. You're "a HOUR before" claim is simply not at all accurate.
I've been accused of the same thing, of undeleting a post in order to quote it. But the exact same thing happened to me as happened to Dave above, where the post was quoted, and sometime in between quoting it and then posting the reply, the original text was deleted or edited by the original poster. It happens. Except in the case where I was accused of doing it, the original text wasn't deleted (which can be undeleted), it was actually edited by the original poster, which cannot, under any circumstances, be later resurrected by anyone to be quoted.
There is nothing more vile than accusing someone of something they did not do, especially when the accusation is based on incomplete information, or worse, assumptions.
