PennsylvaniaRepublican Governor candidate effectively appears before the House Election Commission investigating an attack on the US Capitol, but the Commission's question It is unlikely to provide a substantive answer to. To his lawyer. SupportingDonald Trumpin the Governor's election, Doug Mastriano worked with the Commission for several weeks to arrange his testimony and interviews, including whether he would. I have been negotiating. You are allowed to record or access unedited testimony records.
"Finally, we tried to resolve the Commission's arrangement for his testimony in a non-misleading way," said his lawyer Timothy PalatoreIndependence. I told Dent."They refuse to even discuss it."
He confirmed that he would appear in the virtual testimony at 10 am on August 9th, Parlatore confirmed. The appearance may last only 5 minutes.
Parlatore expressed concern that the Commission would "take testimonials and interviews of people, edit those small clips and release them out of context."
Pennsylvania Senator disputed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on the battlefield, including a meeting at a hotel with Mr. Trump's then-lawyer, Rudy Jurani. He was a key figure in the former president's attempt to overturn the outcome. He amplified his false allegations about election fraud.
He is one of ten Republican senators calling for postponement of voter voting, and the state legislature has "only authority to appoint voters22} ”was claimed.
Mastriano also spent about $ 3,000 to hire acharter bus to take Mr. Trump's 100 supporters to Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. I did.
The Commission claimed to Mr. Mastriano that he had participated in the so-called alternative electoral strategy despite Joe Biden's victory in the state, with the February 15 document. Testimony sub-poena.
After the Republican primary election, he agreed to have a voluntary interview instead of compulsory testimony recording.
However, in a letter to the Commission dated August 5, Parlatore stated that the Commission is currently requesting a compulsory deposit, which the Commission said. Claimed that it could not be done legally.
He argued that the Election Commission could not take compulsory testimony because the rules required the involvement of ranking members appointed by the minority party. Republican US Congressman Liz Cheney is vice-chairman, but house minority leader Kevin McCarthy has not been appointed to the committee.
Parlatore argued that the Commission "has shown a tendency to publish edited clips of interviews without the context necessary to support the false faction story." ..
Instead, he records the interview himself and releases the part only if the panel releases a clip that "needs additional context so as not to misunderstand Pennsylvania voters". Proposed.
"If you disagree with a reasonable arrangement for a voluntary interview, you have no choice but to go to court to sue the matter," said Paraltore.
The House Committee declined to comment on theIndependent.
Following Mastriano's victory in the Republican primary, Trump said in his statement: He revealed the deception, corruption, and complete theft of the 2020 presidential election, and will do something about it.
Mastriano will meet the current Attorney General Josh Shapiro in the November general elections.
