Brian Sims accuses Republican colleague of trying to “get me killed”
Gay Pennsylvania lawmaker cited a threat from one of Doug Mastriano s supporters in the wake of the Capitol riots
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Brian Sims (Photo: Todd Franson) and a screenshot from Doug Mastriano’s Facebook video
Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims has accused a Republican state senator of trying to “get me killed” in the wake of last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters.
The gay Democrat specifically cited a Facebook Live video hosted by Sen. Doug Mastriano, who Sims has accused of helping to “promote & coordinate the attack on the Capitol.”
Campaign finance records show that State Sen. Doug Mastriano’s campaign spent thousands of dollars on charter buses ahead of the Washington D.C. rally that
Donald Trump did not act alone.
Though the president has been the most prolific spreader of election disinformation, the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday had also been primed by a long list of elected officials, from Congress to statehouses to local governments, who have echoed Trumpâs dire rhetoric about a nonexistent threat to the republic.
âWe know that that attack today, it didnât materialize out of nowhere,â U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Allegheny County, said on the House floor hours after the Capitol building was secured and Congress was able to resume its final certification of President-elect Joe Bidenâs victory.
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