The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has in its possession more than two dozen text messages, 29 in total, between former Trump White ...
They do not necessarily represent the sum total of communication between Thomas and Meadows during that period of time. Meadows turned over thousands of text messages before he stopped cooperating with the committee. Clarence doesn't discuss his work with me, and I don't involve him in my work," she recently told the Free Beacon. The end of Liberty," Thomas wrote. Ginni Thomas' messages reflected a belief that the legal challenges presented by a group of conservative lawyers helping the campaign were valid. Attorney Sidney Powell, who worked on Trump-aligned lawsuits seeking to challenge the results of the 2020 election, was also referred to by herself as "The Kraken" in reference to the ancient mythological sea creature. Many of us can't continue the GOP charade." "We are living through what feels like the end of America. Most of us are disgusted with the VP and are in a listening mode to see where to fight with our teams. Thomas wrote to Meadows on November 19, 2020, "Sounds like Sidney and her team are getting inundated with evidence of fraud. On November 24, 2020 she wrote: "I can't see Americans swallowing the obvious fraud. Thomas regularly checked in with Meadows to encourage him to push claims of voter fraud and work to prevent the election from being certified. "Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!! ... You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America's constitutional governance at the precipice.
Thomas is a conservative activist who's married to Justice Clarence Thomas, while Meadows was former President Donald Trump's chief of staff.
A committee spokesperson declined to comment on the content of the texts. In the same interview, Thomas acknowledged that she attended Trump's rally at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, but said she left before he spoke. NBC News has not reviewed the messages. “Clarence doesn’t discuss his work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work,” she said. The text messages were in a trove of documents and messages that Meadows turned over to the Jan. 6 committee before he stopped cooperating with the investigation. CNN first reported that the panel was in possession of the text messages.
CBS News and The Washington Post have obtained copies of numerous text messages exchanged between Thomas and Trump's White House chief of staff.
Among Thomas' stated goals in the messages was for lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted incendiary and unsupported claims about the election, to become "the lead and the face" of Trump's legal team. Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks following the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post. Those messages — part of 29 total messages obtained — reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, and then-President Donald Trump's top aide during a period when Trump and his allies were vowing to go to the Supreme Court in an effort to subvert the election results.
In the weeks between the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ...
That same day, Ms. Thomas urged Mr. Meadows to support Ms. Powell, and said she had also reached out to “Jared” to do the same: “Just forwarded to yr gmail an email I sent Jared this am,” she wrote. “He must recuse himself, and should have recused himself in the cases that have been heard up to now.” While Ms. Thomas already had access to the president, White House aides said her influence increased after Mr. Trump named Mr. Meadows chief of staff in March 2020. He once said his wife worked “24/7 every day in defense of liberty,” adding, “We are equally yoked, and we love being with each other because we love the same things.” Others challenging the committee’s subpoenas in court include John Eastman, a conservative lawyer and former clerk to Justice Thomas who wrote a memo arguing that Mr. Pence had the power to reject Electoral College votes for President Biden. Both cases could end up before the Supreme Court. The text traffic also suggests that Ms. Thomas was in contact with Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law and adviser. Many of Ms. Thomas’s postelection texts are rambling, with little attention to punctuation, and they run the gamut. Ms. Thomas has actively opposed the Jan. 6 committee and its work, co-signing a letter in December calling for House Republicans to expel Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger from their conference for joining the committee. The committee obtained 29 texts between Ms. Thomas and Mr. Meadows — 28 exchanged between Nov. 4 and Nov. 24, and one written on Jan. 10. The contents of the texts were reported earlier by The Washington Post and CBS News. They were among about 9,000 pages of documents that Mr. Meadows turned over to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. In February 2021, he wrote a dissent after the majority declined to hear a case filed by Pennsylvania Republicans that sought to disqualify certain mail-in ballots. Justice Thomas has been Mr. Trump’s most stalwart defender on the court.
Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, played an active role in pushing then-White House chief of ...
- "We are living through what feels like the end of America," Thomas wrote. - "Amazing times," she said. "Most of us are disgusted with the VP and are in listening mode to see where to fight with our teams. What happened: On Nov. 10, after President Biden was projected the winner, Ginni Thomas texted Meadows, "Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. Thomas and an attorney for Meadows did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment. A message to the public information officer at the Supreme Court also was not immediately answered.
In texts to Mark Meadows, the wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas pushed Trump's 'big lie'
Other messages refer to conservative commentators and lawyers who supported Trump’s cause, including Sidney Powell, whom Thomas apparently wanted to be “the lead and the face” of Trump’s legal team. Thomas seemed to condemn some Republicans in Congress for being insufficiently loyal to Trump. “House and Senate guys are pathetic too… The messages shed light on Thomas’s direct line to the White House and how she used it to push the “big lie” that Trump had won the election – with Meadows’ apparent support, the Post reported. Thomas did not respond to the newspaper’s requests for comment. Thomas, for instance, highlighted a claim popular among QAnon followers that the president had watermarked certain ballots as a means of identifying fraud. In one of 29 messages seen by the news outlets, Thomas wrote to Mark Meadows on 10 November: “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!! … You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice.
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And that adds more than a little je ne sais quoi to another of the texts that has come to light. The video Thomas shared with Meadows is no longer available on YouTube. But Thomas wrote to Meadows, “I hope this is true; never heard anything like this before, or even a hint of it. After all, they picked through almost 2,400 of Meadows’ text messages to get these 29 between Meadows and Thomas to release to the media. She sent him a link to a YouTube video labeled “TRUMP STING w CIA Director Steve Pieczenik, The Biggest Election Story in History, QFS-BLOCKCHAIN.” The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.” The congressional committee looking into the events of January 6 seems to have had Ginni Thomas in its sights for a while.
Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urged Trump aide Mark Meadows to overturn the 2020 election, according to reports.
The messages didn't mention the Supreme Court or Justice Thomas, who is currently being treated with antibiotics at a Washington hospital, according to the Washington Post. Thomas drew fire earlier this month after acknowledging in an interview with The Washington Free Beacon that she attended the rally outside the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. As news organizations projected Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election in November 2020, Thomas wrote to Meadows that he should “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!...You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The messages were between Thomas and then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and are dated from early November 2020 to mid-January 2021, various outlets reported Thursday. WASHINGTON – Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed a top White House official in President Donald Trump’s administration to overturn the 2020 election, according to copies of the messages reviewed by several news organizations. - Virginia "Ginni" Thomas is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly texted Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to overturn the election, ...
“This is a fight of good versus evil,” Meadows wrote back. “Do not concede,” she wrote on November 6. “Make a plan,” Thomas texted on November 19.
Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urged a White House official to "release the Kraken."
Release the Kraken and save us from the left taking America down.” “Mark (don’t want to wake you),” Ginni Thomas wrote to Meadows on Nov. 19. “Sounds like Sidney and her team are getting inundated with evidence of fraud.
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife Ginni Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation, on Oct. 21, 2021, in ...
The Post notes that the messages Thomas sent to Meadows did not mention Clarence Thomas or the Supreme Court. CNN first reported that the committee was in possession of texts between Thomas and Meadows. The Washington Post and CBS News then revealed that the texts concerned efforts to overturn the election results. Hunter Walker, who has reported extensively on the “Stop the Steal” rally for Rolling Stone, tweeted earlier this month that multiple sources told him they believe they saw Thomas at the Willard Hotel on Jan. 6. Thomas wrote that her husband had been communicating with DeSantis, which is concerning in and of itself. “The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.” “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!…You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice,” one sent on Nov. 10 reads.
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa report that Ginni Thomas texted then-White House Chief of Staff urging him to contest the 2022 election.
Clarence Thomas did not recuse when the Supreme Court weighed in on the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s election challenge. Earlier this month, Ginni Thomas told The Washington Free Beacon, “Clarence doesn’t discuss his work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work.” But her involvement in the post-election challenge, including her attendance at the January 6th rally that preceded the siege on the Capitol, has put new scrutiny on when Supreme Court justices should recuse themselves from certain cases. Powell, though, made a series of wild and unsupported claims in multiple TV appearances and at a November 19 news conference, to the point that Fox News’ Tucker Carlson told viewers that, after his inquiries, she could not produce evidence.