Virginia Thomas, a Conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has repeatedly pressured White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to continue tireless efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in urgent text exchanges. in the criticism weeks after the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by CBS News and The Washington Post.
These messages, part of a total of 29 messages obtained, reveal an extraordinary channel between Virginia Thomas, called Ginni, and the main aide of then-President Donald Trump during a period in which Trump and his allies pledged to go to court. Supreme in an effort to subvert the election results.
The messages, which do not refer directly to Judge Thomas or the Supreme Court, show for the first time how Ginni Thomas used his access to Trump’s inner circle to encourage and seek to guide the president’s strategy to overturn the results of the elections, and how receptive and grateful. Meadows said he should receive his advice. Thomas’s stated goals in the messages were that lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted incendiary and unsupported claims about the election, should become “the head and face” of Trump’s legal team.
The messages were among the 2,320 text messages Meadows provided to the select committee of the House investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The existence of messages between Thomas and Meadows – 21 sent by her; eight for him, have not been reported before and have been reviewed by CBS News and The Post. They were then confirmed by five people who have seen the commission documents.
To read The Washington Post article written jointly by CBS News’ Robert Costa and The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, click here.
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