From his background to his Trump connections, here's what you need to know about Rep. Scott Perry, the York County Republican making headlines again after his phone was seized by the FBI on Tuesday.
Perry on Thursday said the U.S. Department of Justice told him and his attorneys thatHere’s what you need to know:Perry, 60, was a Pennsylvania state representative for three terms before being elected to the U.S. Congress in 2012. Now in his second term on Capitol Hill, he represents Dauphin County, as well as parts of Cumberland and York Counties.Perry is on the U.S. House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Foreign Affairs.
Prior to the attack on the Capitol, Perry asked Justice Department officials to look into debunked conspiracy theories about election fraud, including a false report that there were more votes than registered voters in Pennsylvania, the committee found. Perry also advocated for replacing Justice Department officials with those who would be more compliant with Trump’s plans to usurp the election results. He tried to help install Philadelphia-born attorney Jeffrey Clark as U.S. attorney general. Clark’s
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