And by "it" I mean Trump's "not legally sound" plan to stay in office after
loosing the 2020 election to Joe Biden.
My evidence for "deep"
starts in the first two paragraphs of
this piece from the NYTimes:
It was less than two weeks before President Donald J. Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress would have what they saw as their last chance to overturn the 2020 election, and Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, was growing anxious.
“Time continues to count down,” he wrote in a text message to Mark Meadows, then the White House chief of staff, adding: “11 days to 1/6 and 25 days to inauguration. We gotta get going!”
Perry also shows up in these paragraphs:
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Mr. Meadows, told the House committee that she recalled at least 11 members of Congress who were involved in discussions with White House officials about overturning the election, including plans to pressure Mr. Pence to throw out electoral votes from states won by Mr. Biden.
She said members of Congress involved in the discussions at various points included Mr. Perry; Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio; Representatives Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar and Debbie Lesko of Arizona; Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama; Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida; Representative Jody Hice and Ms. Greene of Georgia; Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas; and Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado.
“They felt that he had the authority to — pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but — send votes back to the states or the electors back to the states,” Ms. Hutchinson testified, adding that they had appeared to embrace a plan promoted by the conservative lawyer John Eastman that members of both parties have likened to a blueprint for a coup.
Ms. Hutchinson said that Mr. Perry, Mr. Gaetz and Mr. Gohmert were present when White House lawyers told the group that the plan to use so-called alternative electors was not “legally sound,” but that Mr. Meadows allowed it to move forward nonetheless.
They knew it wasn't legal and yet did it anyway.
But this blog post isn't just about Rep Scott Perry. Can't be just about him. 'Cause he's not a lone wolf in these here Pennsylvania parts. No sirree Bob. Nope.
Where he goes, PA State Senator (and gubernatorial candidate) Doug Mastriano also goes.
We've already blogged about:
- Those Eastman memos
- The "false Pennsylvania electors" plan
- How Steve Bannon himself felt that the "movement" to overturn the 2020 election was started at Mastriano's November 24, 2020 "hearing"
- How Donald Trump named both Perry and Mastriano in his call to DOJ looking for ways to overturn his loss
- How Mastriano was subpoenaed for his information regarding (among other things) "a plan to arrange for an alternate slate of electors to be presented to the President of the Senate on January 6, 2021."
Can someone please put a microphone in front of Doug Mastriano's face and ask him about how deeply he's involved in Trump's attempted coup? Please? Before the election?
That would be a good journalism thing to do, doncha think?
