Ginni Thomas’ connection to 2020 election reversal gambits

Here’s a look what we have learned about her connections to the effort to overturn Trump’s electoral defeat:

Support on Facebook of the rally that preceded the January 6 attack on the Capitol

“GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU STANDING UP or PRAYING,” she posted on her Facebook, along with a link to the livestream of the rally.

The posts were published before the protest turned into a riot. Later that week, she added a disclaimer, according to Slate, that said “[Note: written before violence in US Capitol].”

Apologies for sparring over 2020 election that broke out on listserv for Justice Thomas’ former clerks

The listserv was typically used to share personal and professional milestones among the circle of ex-clerks, and Thomas, in her apology, offered a “pledge to not let politics divide THIS family, and learn to speak more gently and knowingly across the divide.”

Prior to the apology, Thomas had used the listserv to express her disappointment with Trump’s defeat, writing to the former clerks, “Many of us are hurting, after leaving it all on the field, to preserve the best of this country.”

“I feel I have failed my parents who did their best and taught me to work to preserve liberties,” she wrote in the earlier email.

A source told CNN at the time of Thomas’ apology that the dispute over the rally and Eastman’s role had been between the former clerks and not about what Thomas had expressed on the email listserv.

Calls that House Republicans boot GOP January 6 members from their conference

As the congressional investigation into the riot picked up steam, Ginni Thomas signed on to criticisms of the probe.

“As part of [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi’s team, Reps. [Liz] Cheney and [Adam] Kinzinger have deliberately sought to undermine the privacy and due process of their fellow Republicans, and those of private citizens, with improperly issued subpoenas and other investigatory tactics designed not to pursue any valid legislative end, but merely to exploit for the sake of political harassment and demagoguery,” the letter said.

When the court cleared the documents’ release in January 2022, Justice Thomas did not explain why he voted to block their disclosure.

Admission that she herself attended the January 6 rally before it turned violent

She said that she and her husband have “our own separate careers,” and that ” Clarence doesn’t discuss his work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work.”

“The legal lane is my husband’s — I never much enjoyed reading briefs and judicial opinions anyway and am quite happy to stay out of that lane,” she told the Free Beacon. “We do not discuss cases until opinions are public — and even then, our discussions have always been very general and limited to public information.”

Texts with Mark Meadows encouraging the bid to overturn Trump’s defeat

“Sounds like Sidney [Powell] and her team are getting inundated with evidence of fraud. Make a plan. Release the Kraken and save us from the left taking America down,” she wrote to Meadows on November 19, 2020.

(The texts were part of a collection that Meadows turned over to the committee voluntarily, before the legal dispute brought by Trump over the committee obtaining his White House materials.)

Thomas also texted Meadows days after the January 6 Capitol assault that “Most of us are disgusted” with the then-Vice President Mike Pence, who had resisted Trump’s demands that he disrupt Congress’ certification vote.

“Those who attacked the Capitol are not representative of our great teams of patriots for DJT!! Amazing times. The end of Liberty,” she wrote.

The Thomases declined to comment to CNN at the time the texts were reported.

Participation in an email campaign pressuring Arizona legislators to swap out Biden’s electors

Thomas sent messages to 29 legislators in November and December 2020. The messages appear to have repeated pre-fabricated script, with the November tranche calling on the lawmakers to “fight back against fraud” and exercise what’s described as a constitutional authority to unilaterally choose a “clean” slate of presidential electors. The December message asked that the lawmakers, before choosing the electors, “consider what will happen to the nation we all love if you do not stand up and lead.”

One of her defenders, conservative attorney Mark Paoletta said the reporting around the emails was “ridiculous.”

“Fun that this came to you,” Ginni wrote back. “Just part of our campaign to help states feel America’s eyes!!!”

Emails with a top legal architect of Trump’s election reversal schemes

The House January 6 committee has also obtained emails between Ginni Thomas and Eastman, the former Thomas clerk who played a prominent role advising Trump on how he could reverse his electoral defeat, the Washington Post, CNN and other outlets reported Wednesday evening.

The email matches a description of a document referenced in the litigation over the Eastman emails the committee has sought. In a June 7 order requiring the disclosure of certain Eastman emails to the committee, Judge David O. Carter described two emails from a “high-profile leader” of a group “inviting Dr. Eastman to speak” at a meeting of the group and two emails containing “the meeting’s agenda.”

“Based on the agenda, Dr. Eastman discussed ‘State legislative actions that can reverse the media-called election for Joe Biden,'” Carter’s order said. “Another speaker gave an ‘update on [state] legislature actions regarding electoral votes.'”

Earlier Thursday, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the January 6 committee, said “It’s time for us to invite her to come talk.”

He said that she may come up “at some point” in the committee committee’s hearings, “but we’re still in the discovery phase.”