It's been said at many times and in many places, "All politics is local."
So now that Trump's been served, what does that mean locally?
And by "locally" I mean of course in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race.
Of course.
So when, on the first page, we see this:
Purposely and maliciously disseminating false allegations of fraud related to the 2020 presidential election in order to aid your effort to overturn the election and for purposes of soliciting contributions;
And this:
Orchestrating and overseeing an effort to obtain and transmit false electoral certificates to Congress and the National Archives;
Can we assume that at least part of that story involves Doug's "hearing" in Gettysburg in November of 2020?
I mean we have already seen that:
Three weeks after the election, Giuliani and his associates pushed a new strategy: attempting to persuade conservative state legislatures to simply disregard the election results and declare Trump the winner of their states’ Electoral College votes. The Constitution, Trump’s team argued, granted this power.
With Pennsylvania a focus, Flynn dispatched Waldron to a state Senate hearing held by Republican lawmakers there.
And:
At the end of the hearing, President Trump joined in on the speaker phone. “I’ve been watching the hearing on OAN,” the far-right television news channel, Trump said. “I’m in the Oval Office right now, and it’s very interesting to see what’s going on.”
Waldron said he visited the White House later that day with Giuliani and others. “That was great!” he said Trump told them.
The White House focus turned to pushing Republican-led legislatures in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia to replace Biden electors with those for Trump. “That whole strategy started from that Pennsylvania hearing,” Waldron said.[Emphasis added.]
Yea, that's Doug Mastriano's hearing they're talking about.
As part of the subpoena, Trump was ordered to produce documents. Lots and lots of documents. Including:
All records of any telephone calls, text messages, or communications through Signal or any other means, placed or received by you or at your direction, including records of any calls you joined as an active or passive participant, from November 3, 2020, to January 5, 2021, relating or referring in any way to the 2020 presidential election or the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021.
We already know that Trump called Doug's "hearing" on November 25, 2020. So we know records of that call will be included, am I right? But it would also include any follow up calls between Donnie and Dougie.
The Committee also wanted to see this:
For the period from September 1, 2020, to January 20, 2021, any communications, sent or received through Signal or any other means, including but not limited to memoranda to you, referring or relating in any way to plans or efforts to: (1) encourage state legislatures, state legislators, or other state or local officials to take any measure to delay or change the certification of the presidential election; or (2) have electors pledged to Donald J. Trump meet and cast Electoral College votes in any state that, at any time before or after such a meeting, certified Joseph R. Biden, Jr. as the winner of the state’s popular vote.
We already know Doug was the White House's "point person" in Pennsylvania for the fake elector scheme.
As they organized the fake elector scheme, lawyers appointed a “point person” in seven states to help organize those electors who were willing to sign their names to false documents. In Pennsylvania, that point person was Douglas V. Mastriano, a proponent of Mr. Trump’s lies of a stolen election who is now the Republican nominee for governor.So how much subpoenaed material of Trump's can we expect to find Doug Mastriano's name on?
Judging from how much Doug was (seemingly) involved, I'd say a sizeable amount.
