First, there's CNN:
Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano went out of his way to help advance former President Donald Trump's election lies: He spearheaded a "hearing" at a hotel in Gettysburg a few weeks after the 2020 election, where Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani made false claims about election fraud. He chartered buses to ferry his supporters to Washington on January 6. And he was briefly in charge of the Pennsylvania state Senate's partisan "audit" of the 2020 election.
Now Mastriano's role behind the scenes helping Trump try to overturn his loss to Joe Biden is under renewed scrutiny after a Democrat-led Senate Judiciary report released last week revealed his correspondence with the Justice Department spreading debunked claims of fraud. Mastriano is one of three under-the-radar figures the report singles out for further investigation for their efforts helping Trump try to subvert the election. [Emphasis added.]
Mastriano, one of three singled out for further investigation.
On Mastriano's pressuring the DOJ, CNN has this:
Behind the scenes, Mastriano was helping Trump try to convince the Justice Department of election fraud. The Senate Judiciary Committee Democratic report shows Mastriano forwarded Donoghue a letter in December 2020 with numerous false and debunked claims about election fraud in Pennsylvania, which was later sent to Rosen, according to the panel."This election is an embarrassment to our nation," Mastriano wrote in his memo.Trump, in a December 27 call with Rosen, cited both Mastriano and Perry when he urged Rosen to say there was fraud in the election."The President said something to the effect of, you know, 'People were trying to address this problem, Scott Perry and Mastriano. Jim Jordan, he's a big fighter, but they can't do it in their own capacities,'" Donoghue told the committee.
Then, more locally, there's KDKA:
A Pennsylvania state senator from the Gettysburg area is being accused of playing a critical role in the lead-up to the January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol.
State Senator Doug Mastriano is being accused of also passing barricades and police lines as the mob took over the Capitol.
A new Senate Judiciary Report highlighted former President Donald Trump’s faith that Sen. Mastriano was in his corner.
The report also says that Mastriano and his wife also took part in the insurrection and organized buses to travel to Washington D.C. that day.
Now the committee believes that Mastriano’s actions warrant further investigation.
Nothing we haven't posted here, but still it's good to know KDKA is catching up.
Finally, in a piece about AG Josh Shapiro announcing his candidacy, The Morning Call has this about our bff, Douggiemast:
State Sen. Doug Mastriano, another Trump ally, has discussed a possible run, but he’s fallen out of favor with party leaders and may be damaged through his links to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
May be damaged? Huh?
Looks to me like the man's deeply embedded in whatever shenanigans Trump engineered to stay in power despite losing in November, 2020.
The only question is when he gets called to testify before Congress and what (if any) charges he'll face for participating in the Trump's attempted coup.
