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January 3, 2022

I Wonder If PA State Senator Doug Mastriano Is Getting Nervous (Maybe Someone Should Ask Him?)

I mean, look at this from ABC News:

They’ve interviewed more than 300 witnesses, collected tens of thousands of documents and traveled around the country to talk to election officials who were pressured by Donald Trump.

Now, after six months of intense work, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is preparing to go public.

In the coming months, members of the panel will start to reveal their findings against the backdrop of the former president and his allies’ persistent efforts to whitewash the riots and reject suggestions that he helped instigate them.
So, Senator, are you worried that you might be mentioned when the committee starts to reveal its findings?

You were there outside The Capitol building during at the insurrection, weren't you?

Yes, Senator, you were.

Donald Trump mentioned you specifically while trying to pressure the DOJ to overturn the election he lost during that now-infamous phone call, isn't that right?

Yes Senator, he did.

ABC says that the committee is planning on public hearings and:

In the hearings, which could start in the coming weeks, the committee wants to “bring the people who conducted the elections to Washington and tell their story,” said the panel’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. Their testimony, he said, will further debunk Trump’s claims of election fraud.

The committee has interviewed several election officials in battleground states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, about Trump’s pressure campaign. In some cases, staff have traveled to those states to gather more information.

Senator, what do you think the chances are that some election official from Pennsylvania (where you're a State Senator and where you've been shown to be a part of Trump's pressure campaign) is going to mention you by name?

I'm thinking the chances are pretty good.

Are you nervous that your name will come up in a public hearing investigating Trump's attempted coup?

Didn't Steve Bannon (who's under criminal indictment for Contempt of Congress) declare in public that the effort to invalidate Biden's win start at the Gettysburg conference you hosted?

Yes Senator, he did.

Again, doncha think your name will come up in one or more of these public discussions?

Again, I'm thinking the chances are pretty good.

Then there's this from ABC:

The panel also is focusing on the preparations for the Jan. 6 rally near the White House where Trump told his supporters to “fight like hell” — and how the rioters may have planned to block the electoral count if they had been able to get their hands on the electoral ballots.

They need to amplify to the public, Thompson said, “that it was an organized effort to change the outcome of the election by bringing people to Washington ... and ultimately if all else failed, weaponize the people who came by sending them to the Capitol.”

Weren't you on the list of "Invited Speakers and Special Guests" for that rally?

Yes Senator, you were.

Didn't you charter a number of buses to bring Trump supporters to that rally as well?

Yes Senator, you did.

Senator, how deeply involved are you in Donald Trump's attempted coup?

Considering how the January 6 Committee is going public soon with hearings/reports, I am guessing we'll find out pretty soon.