Lawsuit inadvertently produces new details about post-2020 chicanery

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A Pennsylvania Republican filed a defamation lawsuit against a local alternative newspaper. As stevebenen writes, it appears to be generating evidence that doesn't help the GOP.

from Jim Wertz, the chair of the local Democratic Party. The point of the column was unsubtle: Wertz slammed two local Republican lawmakers — U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly and state Sen. Dan Laughlin — over their efforts to contest the 2020 election results.

A month after Donald Trump’s defeat, the outgoing president and his political operation focused on a handful of key battleground states, with the hopes of overturning the will of the voters. Among the targets, of course, was Pennsylvania. [P]reviously unreported communications obtained by The Inquirer show that, two days after Bobb’s email, Trump himself called Mastriano — this time peddling lies about Dominion voting machines. “POTUS just called me,” Mastriano wrote in a Dec. 14, 2020, email with the subject line “Document from POTUS.” “He asked that I share the attached with you.” Mastriano was happy to oblige.

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