Exclusive: Pennsylvania candidate Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform at Army War College

[chuluma]

Source: Reuters

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Three years before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, according to a copy of the photo obtained by Reuters.

The previously unreported photo, released by the War College to Reuters after a request under the Freedom of Information Act, showed Mastriano in a 2013-14 portrait for the Department of Military Strategy, Plans, and Operations, where he worked.

Faculty at the time had been given the option of dressing as a historical figure, people familiar with the photo said. At least 15 of the 21 faculty in the photo opted to appear in regular attire. Although one man wears a trench coat and sunglasses and another carries an aviator's helmet,

Mastriano is the only one wearing a Confederate uniform. Mastriano did not immediately respond to requests for comment made by email and phone. A Reuters reporter attended a Mastriano event on Wednesday to seek comment, but the candidate did not make himself available for questions.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-pennsylvania-candidate-mastriano-posed-confederate-uniform-army-war-2022-08-26/

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[csziggy]

22. I like how everyone else is separated from this traitor!

I did a bit of research on his family. His grandfather Mastriano was from Italy, so immigrated long after the American Civil War. On his mother's side, his great great grandfather, William Richardson, enlisted in the US Navy June 1863 in Philadelphia. (Weekly return of enlistments at Naval Rendevous("Enlistment Rendevous&quot , Jan. 6 1855 - Aug. 8, 1891, NARAL Publication M1953)

[RKP5637]

2. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[The Jungle 1]

3. Move on nothing to see here.

Just another fascist republican supporting treason.

[Novara]

4. 2013

He doesn't have the excuse of youth, ignorance, or a historically un-woke culture. We all knew how bad this was in 2013.

And his deplorable voters probably love him for it.

[Harker]

5. His Waffen-SS uniform was at the cleaners. n/t

[appalachiablue]

7. +1

[cstanleytech]

6. Mmmmm, perhaps showing which side of the war he would have fought for?

[IronLionZion]

8. Does he have any confederate heritage?

I'm guessing the Mastrianos, like the Drumpfs, came to America after the civil war.

[csziggy]

23. No - see my message above

His paternal grandfather was born in Italy after the Civil War. His maternal great great grandfather enlisted in the US Navy in 1863.

[Initech]

9. Once a traitor, always a traitor!

[viva la]

10. These Confederate GOPers don't seem to get that in the north... we were on the right side.

There's a general in NH running as a GOPer, and protecting Confederate monuments is one of his priorities. (Also, he called the current GOP governor a "Chinese communist sympathizer.&quot

This Mastriano seems to think that Pennsylvania seceded in 1861, and has all sorts of confederate lovers? The state with GETTYSBURG?

[MissMillie]

12. they're "patriots" that "love their country" and yet

protect and defend the symbols of the movement that would have destroyed their country.

[czarjak]

16. A goon was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the confederate flag when we were at Gettysburg.

Obviously a history scholar.

[Ziggysmom]

11. He was one of the nazis on Jan 6, financed by campaign funds. Lied about it. Sounds familiar......

https://www.padems.com/new-pictures-show-doug-mastriano-lied-about-his-actions-on-jan-6-filmed-mob-assault-on-the-capitol/

Mastriano has already been subpoenaed for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection — leading the effort to overturn the 2020 election, crossing police barricades on January 6th, and using thousands of dollars in campaign funds to bus Pennsylvanians to the Capitol that day. At least five of Mastriano’s supporters have already been charged for their involvement at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Link to tweet

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[The Jungle 1]

13. His treasonous confederate asshat friends were real pleasant while visiting Pa.

They burned the city of Chambersburg, Pa to the ground.
This ,richard cranium, mastriano wants to celebrate that treason. He likes treason.

[róisín_dubh]

14. Richard Cranium...

[róisín_dubh]

17. Richard Cranium...

[The Jungle 1]

21. Lotta people don't get that one.

I love that line. It can really help you read a room.

[twodogsbarking]

15. His white outfit with the hood was in the wash.

[Upthevibe]

18. chuluma..........

Good Lord..........

Thanks for posting..........

[malthaussen]

19. Hey, Doug, Pennsylvania was on the other side. n/t

[malthaussen]

20. The War College used to have portraits of RE Lee and TJ Jackson on display...

... I don't know if they have been removed finally.

-- Mal

[Grins]

24. His fellow Republican...

…Abraham Lincoln must be whirling in his grave.

Remind me again why they call themselves “the Party of Lincoln?”

[Grins]

25. Before that, this...!

In 2001 he was a student at the Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College.

His thesis was that the United States was vulnerable to a LEFT-wing “Hitlerian Putsch”, and only the military could save the country from its morally debauched civilian leaders. You know; like a Coup d’Etat.

This was a harbinger of things to come.

When I first read this about his time at the Air Command Staff College, my thoughts:
1. He effing passed????
2. How did this guy make Major?
3. How the hell did he make Colonel???
4. Why wasn’t he flagged and discharged out of the Army?

Oddly, the same thoughts I have about Michael FLYNN!

[Better Days Ahoy]

26. Dickhead

I pondered my reply for maybe 3 seconds. These people are why Tourettes is my new go-to.

[mahina]

27. Should go over great in PENNSYLVANIA. What a bonehead!

[orangecrush]

28. KICK

[riversedge]

29. "Mastriano is the only one wearing a Confederate uniform..."