Ginni Thomas Texts To Trump COS Mark Meadows Emphasize The Extraordinary Importance Of The Jan. 6 House Committee Investigation
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer
The revelations yesterday that Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent a number of text messages to President Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to continue the fight to overturn the 2020 election, emphasize the extraordinary importance of the work of the House Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection attack at the U.S. Capitol and the events leading up to it.
According to CNN, between November 2020 and January 2021, Ginni Thomas “regularly checked in with Meadows to encourage him to push claims of voter fraud and work to prevent the election from being certified.”
According to The New York Times, the texts were among “about 9,000 pages of documents that Mr. Meadows turned over to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.”
The evidence discovered by the Jan. 6 committee paints a damning picture of the scope and breadth of Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him and the damage that it continues to do to the integrity of our elections and to our democracy.
That these texts came from the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice raises conflict issues.
As The New York Times notes: The “barrage” of text messages represents the first evidence that Ginni Thomas “was directly advising the White House as it sought to overturn the election. In fact, in her efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power, Ms. Thomas effectively toggled between like-minded members of the executive and legislative branches, even as her husband, who sits atop the judiciary branch that is supposed to serve as a check on the other branches of government, heard election-related cases.”
The Jan. 6 committee is planning public hearings that will allow the American people the opportunity to see the illicit efforts of Trump and his followers to overturn the 2020 election, including the deadly attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
It’s important that we learn the full story of the extraordinary danger Trump and his followers posed – and continue to pose – to our democracy.
And, it’s vital for Congress to adopt remedies to help ensure that this grave threat to our democracy does not happen again.
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