As her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, withers away in a hospital bed somewhere with mysterious “flu-like symptoms”, the wolves have begun circling around extreme right-wing activist Ginni Thomas.According to private messages obtained by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward and CBS News correspondent Robert Costa, Ginni repeatedly pestered ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about overturning Biden’s victory in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election.Related: Clarence Thomas has been in the hospital for six days now and nobody knows what’s going on with himThe reporters got their hands on a total of 29 texts— 21 sent by her; eight by him—that reveal the two talking about how they might thwart democracy.
The messages come from the 2,320 texts Meadows handed over to the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S.
Capitol.Yahoo! News reports:The messages, which do not directly reference Justice Thomas or the Supreme Court, show for the first time how Ginni Thomas used her access to Trump’s inner circle to encourage and seek to guide the president’s strategy to overturn the election results — and how receptive and grateful Meadows said he was to receive her advice.
Among Thomas’ stated goals in the messages was for lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted incendiary and unsupported claims about the election, to become “the lead and the face” of Trump’s legal team.Related: We need to talk about that fat-shaming cult Clarence Thomas’ wife belonged to in the ’80sHere are just a few highlights from Ginni’s totally-not-crazy-sounding texts to Meadows:The release of the messages has prompted new scrutiny into Clarence Thomas’ lone dissent in a January 6-related case earlier.