Jan. 6 Committee Wants To Interview Ginni Thomas

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - FEBRUARY 23: Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, moderates a pannel discussion titled "When did World War III Begin? Part A: Threats at Home" during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 23, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. Hosted by the American Conservative Union, CPAC is an annual gathering of right wing politicians, commentators and their supporters. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A source familiar with the Jan. 6 investigation has told the Washington Post that the select committee will seek to interview Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, over texts she sent to Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff.

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The Post writes:

The messages — 29 in all — reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, and 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.
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Text messages turned over to the committee by Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, show that Thomas lobbied to have Sidney Powell be the “lead and face” of Trump’s legal team challenging the election results.

Thomas’s repeated outreach to Meadows came at period when Trump and his allies sought to enlist the Supreme Court to negate the results of the election. The revelations of his wife’s texts have drawn calls from Democrats urging Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election.
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Also, the committee is meeting Monday night to discuss considering whether to recommend former Trump aides Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro be held in contempt.

The committee subpoenaed Scavino, along with several other former Trump advisers, last September, but an attorney for Trump instructed the group not to comply with congressional investigators. Trump’s legal team tried to argue that the former aides were protected by executive and other privileges, but President Biden rejected the executive privilege claims last month.
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CNN, which first broke this story, adds:

A source with knowledge of the committee’s investigation told CNN that Thomas is one of many people the committee has been looking at, and that the committee has been “moving aggressively on many fronts, conducting depositions, sometimes multiple depositions, almost every day.”