Michael Flynn recommended this weekend that Democrats would check with Jesus Christ as a "home terrorist" throughout a speech wherein he endorsed Republican state Senator Doug Mastriano for Pennsylvania governor. Mastriano attended the "Cease the Steal" rally in D.C. on January 6, 2021 and is a fervent supporter of former President Donald Trump.
"Biblically talking, on the age of 13, Jesus Christ went into the temple and he ransacked it. They'd name him a home terrorist in the present day," Flynn mentioned Saturday throughout Mastriano's official marketing campaign launch.
The previous Trump administration official seemed to be making a nod to the January 6 occasion whereas endorsing Mastriano for being a "warrior and fighter" in politics.
"Doug Mastriano is strictly the sort of chief we want. We'd like warriors, we want fighters. We'd like people who imagine on this nation," Flynn later added in his speech.
Mastriano, who has served as a Republican state senator in Pennsylvania since 2019, first made clear his intention to run for governor final month. The GOP candidate touts himself as an "anti-establishment" politician and has strongly pushed claims the 2020 presidential election was stolen resulting from voter fraud.
Mastriano has repeatedly known as for election audits in favor of Donald Trump in Arizona and Pennsylvania, and has usually boasted about having a private relationship with the previous president and his allies.
Final yr, Mastriano attended the "Cease the Steal" rally in Washington that preceded the violent assault on the Capitol constructing. The Pennsylvania Republican was additionally one in all a number of lawmakers who organized and paid for bus journeys to move protesters to the Capitol, in line with the York Every day File.
The Republican candidate has additionally criticized COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates, and has led anti-mask protests within the state. Mastriano is now the third state senator amongst dozens of candidates looking for to interchange outgoing Democratic Governor Tom Wolf.
"There are lots of people already on this race for governor," Mastriano mentioned throughout his gubernatorial announcement. "What's disconcerting is that of the assortment of candidates, few did something after we confronted the darkness and uncertainty of Wolf's edicts and COVID shutdowns. That is no time to accept one more dithering politician when our freedoms and liberties are being stripped away. It's time for confirmed management."
For his personal half, Flynn has pushed election fraud claims and endorsed pro-Trump candidates. In November, the Home committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot subpoenaed Flynn, alleging he "drove a marketing campaign of misinformation in regards to the election and deliberate methods to cease the rely of Electoral School votes."
Final month, Flynn sued the committee in an try and halt the subpoena, claiming that the investigation is violating his freedom of speech and his rights towards self-incrimination.
"I haven't got something to cover, there's nothing, there's nothing there. What we're dealing with is a transparent assault on our fundamental rights and principally, our freedom to talk freely on this nation and to peacefully protest for issues that we imagine are false or fraudulent," he mentioned in a November interview.
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