Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Scott Perry, who has been avoiding questions from local media for months, fled up a little used trail into the woods to avoid questions from a Harrisburg television station, WHP CBS-21 reports.

After attending a public ceremony noting the historic status of a 130-year-old iron truss bridge in his Cumberland County district, a WHP reporter who had been trying since the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol to interview Perry attempted to ask Perry questions.  Instead of accompanying the group up the paved walkway to a parking lot, Perry and his communications director took off up a little used footpath through the trees… to the parking lot where the TV news crew had parked.

Perry has been a vocal supporter of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the November 2020 election, and was one of more than 140 members of the House to vote to not certify the results of the Electoral College vote.  In that election, he won the traditionally-Republican Pennsylvania 10th Congressional district by just 2.6 percentage points, and he faced calls to resign the seat after it was revealed that Perry pushed for the dismissal of the acting US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who refused to pursue Trump’s claim of fraud in the Georgia election. 

Perry has falsely insinuated that the January 6th attack on the Capitol was carried out by left-wing activists, and that the attackers who entered the Capitol did not use weapons in the attack.  Although he made these claims, he voted against a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6th attack.