From The AP (And others):
Claims of fraud during the 2020 Presidential Election by Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano were discussed during Monday’s January 6 committee hearing.
In a pre-taped deposition with former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr played during the hearing, Barr was asked about conversations he had regarding election fraud in Pennsylvania.
In the video, officials with the Jan. 6 committee asked Barr about conversations he’d had with now-former U.S. Attorney William McSwain about “discrepancies between the number of absentee ballots issued and the number of ballots cast” in Pennsylvania.
Barr said the claim was “one of the big ones” following the 2020 election and that it was brought up during an event in Gettysburg.
After the 2020 election, Mastriano, a state senator, spearheaded a state Senate hearing in Gettysburg in which witnesses — including Trump campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani — aired false claims about mass voter fraud. Trump called into the hearing, as well.
“It kept on being repeated and I found it annoying because it didn’t seem like it was right,” said Barr.
That's because it wasn't. But I'll let Barr continue:
According to Barr in the taped deposition, Mastriano’s claims of election fraud were divulged from Mastriano taking “the number of applications for the Republican primary and he compared it to the number of absentee votes cast in the general election.”
Barr said once you looked at the numbers “apples to apples there’s no discrepancy.” Barr acknowledged he believes he discussed the theory with former President Trump.
Barr said it was an "apples and oranges" thing.
Uh-oh. What's Mastriano's Army gonna say about that?
And Doug was (and still is) part of the misinformation campaign that's part of Trump's attempted coup.
And I haven't even gotten to what Barr said about the Dominion Voting Machines.
