Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator who was on the scene when a violent mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters commandeered the U.S. Capitol, should resign, the top Democrat in the Pennsylvania Senate said Thursday.
Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Allegheny, said Sen. Doug Mastriano’s words and actions since November encouraged a coup attempt and inspired the people behind it. At least eight other Senate Democrats have said Mastriano should step down.
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A number of the commonwealth’s state and federal prosecutors are planning to press charges against anyone from Pennsylvania found to have been involved in the attack on the U.S. Capitol Wednesday that temporarily disrupted the certification of the nation’s Electoral College votes.
At least a dozen people from Pennsylvania have been arrested by DC Metro Police in the wake of the riots. One Schuylkill County man in his 50s is among the four who died according to the Morning Call.
Each of the three U.S. attorneys condemned the hundreds of insurrectionists backing President Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol building. Western District of Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney Scott Brady called their actions “completely unacceptable.”
A Republican state senator who was on the scene when a violent mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters commandeered the U.S. Capitol should resign, the top.