Did he see this?
You can read along here.
It starts thusly:
It was just days after the 2020 presidential election that lawyers supporting then-President Donald Trump began spreading unsubstantiated claims that an American company - Dominion Voting Systems - had rigged the election. They said Dominion was backed by Venezuela, and that its machines and software switched millions of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
They never showed any evidence, but that didn't stop pro-Trump attorneys from making baseless claims, or conservative news networks from giving them plenty of airtime.
Unsubstantiated claims. They never showed any evidence.
That didn't stop right wing politicians from spreading the lies.
Take a look here:
Pennsylvania Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano has been identified as a key figure by the House Jan. 6 committee in their investigation into the Capitol insurrection and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Mastriano repeatedly supported Trump’s election-fraud lies...
And so on.
Among those lies are Trump's lies about Dominion. For example:
- 11/12/2020 – Posts Trump tweet spreading debunked claims about Dominion voting machines altering election results.
- 11/16/2020 – Posts Trump tweet spreading debunked conspiracy theories about Dominion voting software being altered by its creators.
- 12/14/2020 – Shares article promoting baseless conspiracy theories about Dominion machines altering election results.
- 12/16/2020 – Appears on NewsMax and falsely claims Dominion voting machines were “intentionally built” to create tabulation errors. He provides no proof to support this.
Then there's this:
Mastriano emerged from obscurity to become the “GOP legislator most loyal to Trump.” Between November 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, he posted election disinformation on his Facebook page more than 100 times. Biden’s win, Mastriano claimed, was “statistically impossible.” He advocated decertifying Dominion voting machines.
And this:
Mastriano also wants to cancel state contracts with “compromised voting machine companies,” particularly Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion machines are used in 14 Pennsylvania counties and were the subject of conspiracy theories that they flipped votes to President Biden away from President Trump in the 2020 election.
These claims are not just false. They’re the subject of a defamation lawsuit by Dominion against Fox News and One America News Network—but Mastriano wants to make state policy around them. Not “governor” material if you ask me.
And so on.
Doug must know he's vulnerable on this issue. See that link on "also wants"? It links to his "plan" for what he threatens to do if elected.
This is what it looked like when that Pennlive piece was written:
And this is what it looks like now:
See the difference?
He's removed the part about the "compromised voting machines" hasn't he?
Why?
Will Doug Mastriano correct his misstatements regarding Dominion Voting?
An honorable man would. Doug Mastriano won't.
