Pa. GOP gubernatorial nominee shares documents with Jan. 6 panel, agrees to interview
The select committee investigating the Capitol attack exempted anything that state lawmaker Doug Mastriano did in his official capacity.
The Jan. 6 select committee received materials this week from Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano — and with them, perhaps, a new dilemma.
Mastriano’s previously unreported cooperation with the Capitol attack probe came in the form of a submission, obtained by POLITICO, that includes documents about his work to arrange buses that carried pro-Trump protesters to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
But when the select committee subpoenaed Mastriano, it specifically said he didn’t need to send any materials related to official actions in his current position as a Pennsylvania state senator. Given that sizable carve-out, the vast majority of the materials Mastriano sent to the committee are public social media posts.
This leaves the committee with a tough choice: Does it accept the limited production from Mastriano, a Donald Trump stalwart who embraced the former president’s unsuccessful quest to de-certify the 2020 election, or fight for more?
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Receipts provided to the Jan. 6 panel confirm that Mastriano’s campaign committee, Friends of Doug Mastriano, paid $3,354 to a charter bus company in late December 2020, as the progressive news site The American Independent has noted.
Another document in the tranche appears to be a passenger manifest indicating Mastriano’s campaign sold more than 130 tickets to Washington to join the “Stop the Steal” protests that later metastasized into a siege on the Capitol.
Mastriano advertised seats for sale on Facebook, according to the local news station WHYY, and himself was outside the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Campaign finance disclosure records detailed by WHYY previously showed his campaign paid for buses.
In the weeks after Election Day 2020, Mastriano energetically supported Trump’s efforts to stave off certification of the election results. He fired off a host of letters to top lawmakers and to the Justice Department calling on them to join the then-president’s ill-fated efforts.
Those letters, which Mastriano tweeted out at the time, are included in the documents he gave the committee. He also worked on efforts to send a slate of “alternate electors” to Washington — part of a nationwide undertaking that is reportedly drawing scrutiny from DOJ.
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The Jan. 6 select committee received materials this week from Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano — and with them, perhaps, a new dilemmahttps://t.co/PgtOHYyNtG
— POLITICO (@politico) June 2, 2022
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