His campaign did not address why the most recent video mentioned in the story — recorded in late June — had already disappeared within about a week, or why many videos older than 30 days not It has been deleted. Jenna Ellis, a legal adviser to Mastriano and a former lawyer for Donald Trump who was involved in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, posted a statement Monday attributed to an unnamed representative of Mastriano’s campaign. “The biased mainstream media is trying to create a scandal, but they haven’t done their homework,” the statement said. » READ MORE: Doug Mastriano deletes his Facebook videos as he runs for Pa. governor. Mastriano’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment prior to the publication of Monday’s Inquirer story. Nor did he respond to The New York Times when it later asked similar questions about why some videos remained and others disappeared. The Inquirer reported Monday that at least 14 videos have disappeared from the Mastriano campaign Facebook page in the past three months. In them, he claims global warming is based on “pop science,” thinks Republicans who don’t support him secretly “despise veterans,” and reiterates his position that “life begins at conception.” In the past, Mastriano has deleted tweets promoting the Qanon conspiracy theory and other potentially problematic content. His Senate website has also been purged of a plan he proposed early in the COVID-19 pandemic to lift medical privacy restrictions so the government could release the names and locations of those infected. Since Monday’s article was published, Mastriano has come under fire from Josh Shapiro, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and other Democrats who have accused him of trying to soften his positions for the general election after winning a Republican primary in May. “Doug Mastriano spends every day peddling conspiracy theories and reminding voters that his top priority is banning abortion without exceptions,” Manuel Bonder, a spokesman for the Shapiro campaign, told The New York Times. “No amount of clicking the delete button can change the fact that Mastriano is the most extreme, dangerous candidate in Pennsylvania history.” Mastriano’s campaign did not respond Tuesday to a request for comment.
