‘POTUS just called me’: Pa. GOP emails shed new light on 2020 election upheaval (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

‘POTUS just called me’: Pa. GOP emails shed new light on 2020 election upheaval – By William Bender and Gillian McGoldrick (The Philadelphia Inquirer) / June 16, 2023

The emails show how conspiracy theories permeated the Legislature. One lawmaker said a fellow Republican was spreading “crap” and “hurting our party” by trying to invalidate millions of votes.

In mid-December 2020, even Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano apparently had some doubts about the latest plan hatched by Donald Trump’s inner circle to select fake Electoral College electors in an attempt to reverse the results of the presidential election.

The right-wing senator had heard from other Republicans that the scheme might be “illegal,” in the words of lawyer Christina Bobb, then a One America News anchor who later joined Trump’s legal team.

“Mastriano needs a call from the mayor. This needs to be done. Talk to him about legalities of what they are doing,” Bobb wrote on Dec. 12, 2020, to Trump advisers, referring to Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City. That email and others from Trump’s team were reported last summer by the New York Times.

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