Talk about an overreach. The January 6 committee, consisting of Democrat partisans and two Never-Trump Republicans, targeted Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Democrats were hoping to smear Justice Thomas and get him impeached from the Court by using his wife’s political activities. It didn’t work.
According to her attorney, Ginni Thomas voluntarily testified to the committee for four hours. Her name was not mentioned in any of the J6 hearings and her name does not appear in the final J6 report. Why? Because there is nothing there. The committee didn’t uncover anything new. Her attorney, Mark Paoletta, released a statement after the committee released a transcript of Ginni’s testimony.
My statement on the release of the transcript of Ginni Thomas’s interview with the January 6th Committee: pic.twitter.com/NshLQF8xdB
— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) December 30, 2022
What was the point of releasing that transcript? As mentioned, there was no new information uncovered. It was just to keep the committee in the headlines, especially since the committee time was about to expire at the end of the year. The focus by the committee was on Ginni’s text messages to Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff. She was concerned about election fraud and allegedly encouraged him to push the White House (Trump) to fight the election results.
The 845-page report made no reference to Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and attorney married to U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
Ginni Thomas testified before the committee in September and she has been the focus of scrutiny because of conversations she had with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the weeks following the 2020 election in which she encouraged him to continue efforts to overturn the results.
Meadows is mentioned repeatedly in the committee’s report, which also makes reference to messages Meadows received on and around January 6, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, including from Republican lawmakers.
However, Thomas’ exchange with Meadows is not subject to the report and neither is her testimony to the committee.
There was nothing illegal about her texting Meadows. She, like many loyal Trump supporters, seemed to be convinced that something untoward had happened in counting votes and the final election results. Trump refused to believe the election results in 2020 and still does. Democrats may not like what her texts said to Meadows but they were not incriminating. The texts didn’t show her to be a January 6 riot organizer or something along those lines. The transcript shows she still believes the election was stolen but that does not make her unique, either. She’s free to believe as she wishes to believe.
Partisans on social media went into outrage mode over the fact that Ginni Thomas was not the subject of a criminal referral, as was attorney John Eastman, with whom she also corresponded. Apparently the partisans were convinced that Ginni and Eastman were working together on a plan.
The left eagerly circulated petitions to gather support to impeach Clarence Thomas. They really had him now, they thought. It was always nonsensical yet that’s how the left operates in Biden’s America. Ginni maintained all along that she and her husband keep their professional work separate. She said she doesn’t talk to him about her political activities and he doesn’t talk to her about his work on the Court.
Thomas said that her husband only found out about her texts with Meadows from media reports as he lay in hospital bed recovering from an infection in March 2022.
The closest it appears that Thomas came to a discussion about the 2020 election with her husband was around Nov. 24, 2021, when Thomas texted Meadows that she was considering leaving politics before Meadows texted her back with a pep talk, telling her, “Do not grow weary in well doing. The fight continues. I stake my career on it or at least my time in D.C. on it.”
Thomas responds: “Thank you. Needed that, this plus a conversation with my best friend just now. I will try to keep holding on.”
Ginni Thomas claims she never told her husband about her conversations with Mark Meadows.
Thomas told investigators the “best friend” was her husband, but she claimed she had “no memory of the specifics,” of what the Supreme Court justice told her.
Ginni Thomas says she regrets sending the text messages to Mark Meadows. She chalks up her actions to the “emotional time.”
“I would take them all back if I could today,” Thomas told the committee investigating last year’s riot at the Capitol Building.
“You know, it was an emotional time,” Thomas explained. “I’m sorry these texts exist.”
“It was an emotional time, and people were scared that there had been enough fraud happening that they weren’t going to get to the bottom of it,” Thomas told the committee at one point.
She deserves an apology from the J6 committee for their witch hunt. The committee was like no other in modern history, consisting of people appointed by Speaker Pelosi. Testimony was heard from only those sympathetic with the committee. It was a joke and an expensive exercise in partisanship paid for by American taxpayers. The committee even withdrew the subpoena issued to Trump, as it prepared to disband.
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