Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election,

[swag]

Source: Washington Post

By Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
Today at 5:15 p.m. EDT

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 a series of urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks after the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News.

The messages – 29 in all – reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, and 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 negate the election results.

On Nov. 10, after news organizations had projected Joe Biden the winner based on state vote totals, Thomas wrote to 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. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”

When Meadows wrote to Thomas on Nov. 24, the White House chief of staff invoked God to describe the effort to overturn the election. “This is a fight of good versus evil,” Meadows wrote. “Evil always looks like the victor until the King of Kings triumphs. Do not grow weary in well doing. The fight continues. I have staked my career on it. Well at least my time in DC on it.”

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[maxsolomon]

1. Her right as a Private Citizen, I guess.

IOKIYAR.

[liberalmuse]

29. Yeah, and one with undue influence at that.

I wonder if she'll be acquitted if she gets indicted and it goes to the USSC court?

[maxsolomon]

38. She won't be.

So that's moot.

I think it does mean that Thomas should recuse himself from any case having to do with the insurrection. But he won't.

IOKIYAR.

[DanieRains]

2. Sounds Like A Crime Has Been Committed To Me

Good thing she wasn't trying to vote while black.

She could get in real trouble for that.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Survey says:

Does the 1st A protect the dissemination of a lie that threatens the Constitution itself by endangering the peaceful transfer of power? "Biden stole the election". Is that protected speech? Should it be?

Yes

Link to tweet

[reACTIONary]

19. +10 nt

[Scottie Mom]

3. This is crazy.

Two total RW evangels plotting to commit felonies for the sake of their Gawd.

Unreal.

[2naSalit]

4. I expected nothing less from her.

Ever since she was a TP operative, it's become clear who she and her hubby are.

[mahina]

78. TP?

Remind me what that means please?

Clarence Thomas should be ashamed and should resign but he showed us in his confirmation hearings that he has no shame. So I’ll just take the resignation.

[2naSalit]

80. T Party.

Those folks. If she wasn't heavily involved in that network I suppose we would have never heard of her.

[mahina]

81. Ah yes thanks.

No doubt.

[Me.]

5. And Is THat Why Her Husband Is Sick?

"a period when Trump and his allies were vowing to go to the Supreme Court in an effort to negate the election results"

[ashredux]

6. Justice Thomas will be too ill to continue on the court...

His wife’s emails and actions are “coming home to roost”

He sees it coming…

[underpants]

7. I was just about to post this!!

Ginnie apparently thinks everything deserves two exclamation points !!

[L. Coyote]

24. Likewise. Plenty of sources to choose from already.

Link to tweet

[musette_sf]

8. Ginny is 🦇💩😜

In the Nov. 5 message to Meadows, Thomas went on to quote a passage that had circulated on right-wing websites: “Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.”

[Evolve Dammit]

62. How is this not chargeable sedition and conspiracy?

[C_U_L8R]

9. The Justice must have had an aneurysm.

No wonder he's in the hospital so long. Maybe the two of them should get one way tickets to Moscow.

[Rebl2]

16. I thought he

was supposed to get out Monday or Tuesday.

[orleans]

54. that's what they reported over the weekend. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

10. And Meadows rescinded his support to the investigation because he feared they would cherry pick

information and politicize the investigation? Really?

[Lonestarblue]

12. This woman is a true nut. She belongs in an asylum.

I wonder if her husband is the best friend she talked to about overturning an election and committing insurrection. Thomas is the only justice who voted for the Jan 6 Committee not to receive WH records, no doubt to protect his crazy wife instead of the law. He needs to retire yesterday.

[Samrob]

47. Please do not try to excuse her as a "nut." She knows and knew exactly what she was doing.

She is who she has always been. Her being the wife of Thomas says it all.

Anita, are you sipping wine?

[ShazzieB]

72. Being a "nut" and knowing exactly what she's doing are NOT mutually exclusive.

Never have been, never will be.

[SergeStorms]

51. I believe she's....

one woman who'd allow Trump to "grab her by the _____." I think she has a crush on The Big Orange Pig. Clarence would probably love Trump to fondle him as well.

Clarence was never a giant in the intellectual arena to begin with, but he's been even loonier since Scalia died. I think Scalia was Clarence's first "man crush" and now The Big Orange Pig has taken his place. Clarence has absolutely no taste in men.

[fightforfreedom]

13. Start the open hearings now! This is unbelievable.

We are surrounded by lunatics. This is corruption at the highest level of our legal system. Clarence has some tough questions to answer.

[Dustlawyer]

33. I think his "Ginni" needs to answer questions from the 1/6 committee.

Let her plead the 5th one time and Thomas will have to recuse. Let her plead the 5th multiple times and hopefully we can impeach him.

They are both Koch whores who have gone to his big donor meetings. Clarence Thomas has spoken to the group in the past and was paid an honorarium I believe.

[druidity33]

39. THIS! THIS! THIS! K&R, nt.

[Coventina]

14. LOCK HER UP!!!

Make her squeal on every elected or career government official she collaborated with.

Otherwise, "Rule of Law" is dead.

[Hieronymus Phact]

15. He needs to be recusing himself

If any connection remotely connects her to any case before him, He needs to be hounded into recusing himself To "Avoid even the appearance of an impropriety". His failure to do so is a disgrace to the Court.

[Lasher]

61. Remember Quack Quack Scalia?

In remarks made by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at Amherst College (Feb. 12) concerning hearing a case involving his good duck-hunting buddy, Vice President Dick Cheney, on closed-door energy policies, Scalia refuses to recuse himself. He goes on to weakly justify his position, ending his remarks by saying: “That’s all I’m going to say for now. Quack, quack.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-15-le-gibson15-story.html

There is no mechanism to force a SCOTUS justice to recuse.

[Hieronymus Phact]

70. We may not be able to force them to recuse

but we could raise a stink about how they need to.

[Lasher]

71. As we are doing now.

Right here.

[Polybius]

76. They don't care about stinks

They have lifetime appointments.

[turbinetree]

17. He needs to be removed from the bench he was the lone vote on this matter....

https://www.newsweek.com/critics-demand-clarence-thomas-retire-donald-trump-documents-dissent-supreme-court-1671042

[Samrob]

44. No greater conflict of interest EVER!! Forget Hillary's email. Let's pay attention to Gini's emails

At a minimum Thomas should be removed from the Bench or resign. It would be his only act of decency since being appointed. No wonder he is in the hospital. Gini put him there!

[bluestarone]

18. These people that believe the LORD is in there corner, are real fucking scary.

THEY will DESTROY our country.

[KPN]

43. THIS.

[Marthe48]

20. do the aholes believe their own spew?

ginni doesn't know a great man from a chair cushion, doesn't know a great man from a traitor thug. I wouldn't be surprised if she had some custom-made lamp shades.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. Lock her up and impeach him. Seditionists. Good vs. Evil is right but you're on the wrong side. n/t

[Snackshack]

22. So 2 SCOTUS

Justices were involved with 1/6.


Sickening🤮🤮🤮

[Delmette2.0]

37. Who is the other one??

[Snackshack]

46. Here you go.

https://www.newsweek.com/sidney-powell-drags-justice-samuel-alito-supreme-court-january-6-mess-1632896?amp=1

[Samrob]

48. Thanks for that. I was looking for it. nt

[Delmette2.0]

52. Thank you.

I have totally forgotten about that.

[L. Coyote]

23. January 6 committee has text messages between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows

"The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has in its possession more than two dozen text messages between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, ...."

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[BadgerMom]

25. K and R

[LuckyLib]

26. Recent New York Times magazine has a scathing article

on she and Clarence and just how far down the rabbit hole they are. Completely compromised. She’s been working this since her hubby sat down in his SC seat.

[colorado_ufo]

27. Disgusting nut-job of a woman with

a husband devoid of judicial ethics.

[KS Toronado]

28. Clarence Thomas needs to resign

but I bet he will not

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

30. CBS Evening News covered it...

... that should open up a few eyes.

7:32 Video here: [link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virginia-ginni-thomas-clarence-wife-mark-meadows-texts-2020-election/|

[Pepsidog]

31. So befitting these religious freaks who don't know the anti-Christ they faithfully serve. Stephen

King could not write a horror story as good as this. Here we have TFG who is a serial criminal and the biggest traitor in the history of the country who lacks even a scintilla of morality or decency being served by religious fanatics who really believe in their mission. Fox and RW media has really fried the brains of tens of millions of Americans.

[Evolve Dammit]

64. well said.

[Probatim]

66. I'm pretty sure Ginni Thomas has been a character in a few of King's stories.

Maybe the Langoliers had a Thomas clone as a main character.

[dlk]

32. Is it time, yet, for SCOTUS ethics rules?

N/T

[Joinfortmill]

34. Looks like Joe gets to nominate another SCOTUS soon.

I see retirement in Thomas' near future.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

35. Laws are for little people - Ginni Thomas

[obamanut2012]

63. Seriously? Bitch?

I guess it's okay when the wingnuts call Hillary or Harris or Pelosi a bitch, too, right? Because you just gave them permission.

Nice job!

[RevBrotherThomas]

67. with you on this...

Let's not use misogynist slurs. There's MORE than enough of GT's ethical/criminal behavior to find fault with.

Stick with that.

[WinstonSmith4740]

36. Shortly after the insurrection...

There was a report that she had financed 80 buses to get people to the "rally". That turned out to be false. This is better. It never ceases to amaze me that these people actually put this stuff in writing.l

[IcyPeas]

40. Hooray! This is coming up next on CNN with Erin Burnett....

[mountain grammy]

41. These people are stark raving mad.

Total lunacy

[Samrob]

49. Excuse me. Total evil! nt

[mountain grammy]

50. Yeah that too.

[Hassler]

42. Traitor Thomas and her Hack in black robes husband voted with her.

[aggiesal]

45. Hmmm, I wonder if the 8-1 decision by SCOTUS that Trump can't claim executive privilege ...

where Clarence Thomas was the only dissenting vote had anything to do with Ginni Thomas convincing Clarence to vote for claiming executive privilege to cover up Ginni's documents?

[onenote]

73. Probably not since the Committee had Ginni's documents before the SCOTUS ruled

The SCOTUS case involved Trump's records held by the Archives. The emails between Meadows and Thomas were not part of that case. They were delivered to the Committee by Meadows in December 2021 (a month before the Supreme Court ruled on whether the Archives had to turn over Trump's records).

[aggiesal]

77. Are you sure they were a part of the Dec. Meadows documents ...

or from the Archives? Archives are not just Trumps documents, it's all the White House documents.
How do we know those weren't part of the Archives that included Meadows text messages?

[onenote]

79. Meadows wouldn't have turned over documents that Trump was seeking to prevent the Archives

from disclosing. Meadows turned over 9000 documents in December.

Meadows turning over the Ginni emails in December even though Trump is trying to prevent the disclosure of those specific documents doesn't seem particularly likely.

There were published reports describing the relatively small number of documents (certainly when compared to the Meadows email dump) that were directly in issue in the case before the Supreme Court. Meadows emails/texts were not among the documents so identified.

[aggiesal]

82. You might be right, but ...

I can't tell how you could determine that Meadows turned over the Ginni's text messages and that they didn't come from the White House archives as part of Meadows communications.

[onenote]

83. Description of what was at issue in the SCOTUS case

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/30/trump-wants-block-documents-committee-probing-captiol-riot/6212079001/

[SleeplessinSoCal]

53. How up in arms would the entire right wing machine be if this were our justice spouse?

I recall none on the right of the SCOTUS recusing themselves. Especially back in the Iraq war days. On this court only Thomas voted to keep TFG papers secret. He's an abomination. And gets away with "murder" and worse.

This has to be our fault at this point. We're like the battered wife who stays in the relationship for the kids sake. But in the end, everyone has PTSD or is dead.

[Evolve Dammit]

65. Yep.

[Whiskeytide]

56. I think this is simply evidence that she ...

… knew Thomas was ill and would not survive 4 years. She wanted Тяцмp to remain in the WH to appoint his successor.

[dalton99a]

58. Kick

[UpInArms]

60. Wtf is "well doing"?

These freaks of nature are also illiterate…. Crazy as loons and speak in some type of religious cult tongue

Smh

[myohmy2]

68. thomas...

...and thomas are just right-wing political hacks...

...to claim the losing of a clean and fair presidential election "..the greatest Heist of our History." says it all...

...uncle tom will never recuse himself, that's not their mission...skewing the court to the hard-right is...

...our judges and justices should never recuse themselves ever again...

...republicans...

[IamHappy]

69. Lock her up!

[Trueblue1968]

74. traitor .... lock her up

[Polybius]

75. Honest question:

Is this an actual crime, or just unethical?

[bucolic_frolic]

84. Solution is unrelenting effort to remove Thomas from the bench.

They had their extra-legal wacko fantasies. We can generate equivalent political energy.

[ck4829]

85. The 'not wanting to get shot in school makes you a Marxist' lady

That's Ginni Thomas for you.