“The biased mainstream media is trying to manufacture a scandal, but they haven’t done their homework,” the Republican candidate's statement said about a story on his Facebook videos.
PHILADELPHIA — Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor, is sounding the “fake news” alarm over, claiming that they were removed due to a “default Facebook setting” that automatically deleted the videos after 30 days.
Jenna Ellis, a Mastriano legal adviser and former attorney for Donald Trump who was involved in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, on Monday tweeted a statement attributed to an unnamed spokesman for the Mastriano campaign. The Mastriano campaign did not respond to a request for comment prior to publication of Monday’s Inquirer story. Nor did it respond toabout why some videos remained and others vanished.
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