Ginni Thomas admits to January 6 committee she did not know of any evidence proving voter fraud

Ginni Thomas, a conservative political activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told the January 6 panel that she regretted the ‘tone and context’ of numerous emails and texts sent in the aftermath of the 2020 election in the latest round of transcripts released by the Congressional committee on Friday.

The panel wanted to speak with Thomas following revelations of email correspondence between Thomas and then-President Donald Trump’s election attorney John Eastman – who supported the legal theory that claimed then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to overturn states’ election results

Congressional investigators also had text messages between the 65-year-old and Mark Meadows, who at the time of the exchange of messages, was Chief of Staff to Trump. These messages showed Thomas urging Meadows to continue the fight to overturn the 2020 presidential election. 

‘Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!…You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.’

‘I regret all of these texts,’ Thomas voluntarily told the panel during a closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill on September 29. 

Virgina (Ginni) Thomas, left and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, right

In her testimony, she expressed her embarrassment about personal text messages being made public but was concerned about allegations of voter discrepancies while texting with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

‘It was an emotional time, and people were scared that there had been enough fraud happened that they weren’t going to get to the bottom of it,’ Thomas said.

When asked about evidence of voter fraud by January 6th committee member, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Thomas said, ‘I can’t say that I was familiar at that time with any specific evidence I was just hearing it from news reporters and friends on the ground, grassroots activist who were inside of various polling places that found things suspicious.’ 

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Ginni Thomas admitted to January 6 committee she did not know of any evidence proving voter fraud when she lobbied the White House, transcript reveals

Ginni Thomas tells the January 6 committee that ‘I regret all of the texts’

Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, walks during a break in a voluntary interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, at Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. House Office Building, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, in Washington. She texted with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and contacted lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin in the weeks after the election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Subsequent evidence emerged that Thomas encouraged state lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin to overturn the presidential election results.   

Thomas told the committee that she ‘hoped that state legislators could identify fraud and irregularities in a timely manner before it was too late.’

When investigators and members of the committee of the attack on the U.S. Capitol asked about her conversations at home, Thomas said she stays in the “political” lane at home and her husband stays in a “legal” lane.

“He’s uninterested in politics,” she said. “I did not speak with him at all about the details of my post-election activities, which were minimal.”

She later added, “He had no idea I was texting Mark Meadows about the election,” though she conceded that a “best friend” she had talked to in one text to Meadows was likely her husband.