Caught on Tape: Doug Mastriano Prayed for MAGA to 'Seize the Power' Ahead of Jan. 6

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This just in from Rolling Stones' Tim Dickinson! - looks like the New Apostolic Reformation and Doug #Mastriano were closer to the heart of the 1/6/2021 plot than anyone suspected! https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doug-mastriano-donald-trump-christian-right-1234589455/…

As Dickinson reveals, Mastriano was part of plan "a".

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Caught on Tape: Doug Mastriano Prayed for MAGA to ‘Seize the Power’ Ahead of Jan. 6
On a Zoom call with members of the New Apostolic Reformation movement, the GOP nominee for Pennsylvania governor offered an aggressive prayer ahead of the insurrection.
8:50 AM · Sep 9, 2022

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doug-mastriano-donald-trump-christian-right-1234589455/

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A WEEK BEFORE Jan. 6, on a Zoom call organized by far-right Christian Nationalists seeking to reinstall Donald Trump in the White House, a man with a booming baritone voice bowed his bald head and began to pray. “We remember the promises of old,” he said, before invoking the book of Revelations and its account of the End Times: “We know we overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony and not loving our lives unto death.”

Seated before a Revolutionary War flag with the motto “An Appeal to Heaven,” the man spoke of the nation’s founding in biblical terms: “We remember 1776, our Declaration of Independence, speaking God’s Truth and Word over what would become the United States of America.” He tied Pennsylvania to God’s divine plan, from the Battle of Gettysbug to the fate of Flight 93, which crashed after a “strong Christian man” confronted Islamist hijackers on 9/11, with the cry, “Let’s roll!”

“God I ask you that you help us roll in these dark times, that we fear not the darkness, that we will seize our Esther and Gideon moments,” the man said, invoking a pair of Old Testament heroes who made themselves instruments of God’s vengeance. “We’re surrounded by wickedness and fear, and dithering, and inaction,” he added, “But that’s not our problem. Our problem is following Your lead.” Looking ahead to Jan 6, the man said: “I pray that… we’ll seize the power that we had given to us by the Constitution, and as well by You, providentially. I pray for the leaders also in the federal government, God, on the Sixth of January that they will rise up with boldness.”

The man was state senator Doug Mastriano, now the Republican nominee to be the next governor of Pennsylvania. As he spoke, Mastriano held up letters to Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy that he said Trump personally asked him to write to the Republican leaders “outlining the fraud in Pennsylvania.” He implored that Congress “disregard” the certified election results for the state, “in Jesus’ name, amen.”

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[MagickMuffin]

1. And I believe this is why some in his party are voting for Sharipo

They believe in Democracy! MAGAs do not.

[dchill]

2. Completely deranged and dangerous.

Let's roll!

[C_U_L8R]

3. Criminally bonkers.

And a traitor to everything this country is.

[lindysalsagal]

4. Scary version? He's a true believer. He's not pandering.

[gratuitous]

5. What's stopping you, Doug?

I mean, aside from the bad faith of your false piety? If we're to take you at your word, you think the country is in for it, end times-wise. The antichrist is ascendant and ready to enslave humanity and you claim that you're not going to love your life more than you love Jesus. Yet, here you are, day after day, living this life that you claim to despise so much without sacrificing it to save the country and the world. Where's your boldness, Doug? Where's your witness? Have you fallen down on your duty to warn the people as the faithful watchman? You just stood aside while the evil you see so clearly simply took over. Just another refusenik identified in Jude 6. Why should anyone follow you and your faithless ways? And since your conscience has been seared over, you can't even feel shame.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Part of Trump's Jan 6 insurrection

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214853202

Six Republican lawmakers among rioters as police release photos of wanted

West Virginia Delegate Derrick Evans
Tennessee state lawmaker Terri Lynn Weaver
Virginia state Senator Amanda Chase
Missouri State Representative Justin Hill
Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano
Michigan State Representative Matt Maddock