Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in an interview with the Jan. 6 panel, reasserted her belief that the 2002 presidential election was stolen.
The House Select Committee panel chairman Bennie G. Thompson was the one who revealed the individual's position regarding the issue. Thomas' false assertion, which comes nearly two years after Joe Biden's victory, was in a five-hour closed-door interview with the panel.
Ginni Thomas Testimony
The conservative activist drew the attention of the panel after investigators were able to obtain emails shared between her and lawyer John Eastman. The latter had advocated a fringe legal theory that Vice President Mike Pence could block the congressional certification of Biden's electoral college win.
Thomas also repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to find other ways to overturn the 2020 election, based on messages that were sent to the latter a few weeks after the vote results came out, as per the Washington Post.
The conversations between the two represent an extraordinary pipeline between Thomas and one of former President Donald Trump's top aides as the latter and his allies were trying to take their efforts all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
The House Select Committee's members said that they may use clips from her appearance, if they are warranted, in a future hearing. However, lawmakers have not yet scheduled their next hearing in the case.
According to USA Today, the interview was set because the committee wanted to talk to Ginni about her advocacy for challenging the results of the 2020 elections. Her lawyer, Mark Paoletta, said in a statement that Ginni simply answered the committee's questions, voiced her concerns about the election fraud, and condemned the violence on Jan. 6, 2021.
Reasserting False Claims of Election Fraud
Paoletta said that as Ginni said before, she had significant concerns about fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election. The lawyer added that Ginni played no role, beyond those concerns, in any events after the results of the vote.
However, there have been numerous public officials at federal and state levels that investigated election results and found no evidence of widespread fraud. These investigating individuals include former Attorney General William Barr and former acting deputy attorney general, Richard Donoghue.
The latter also told the House Select Committee that the whole thing was "very, very murky at best, and the video was absurd," referring to Trump providing an "arsenal of allegations." This includes a baseless claim about Italian satellites altering votes in the 2020 elections.
In a statement, Ginni said that she did not discuss her post-election activities with her husband. She added that the couple had an "ironclad rule" that she and her husband never speak about cases pending before the Supreme Court.
The interview ended months of negotiations between the House Select Committee and Thomas over her testimony. The panel's investigators had grown particularly interested in the individual's communication with Eastman as the latter was in close contact with Trump and allegedly wrote a memo that Democrats and anti-Trump GOP members likened to a blueprint for a coup, the New York Times reported.
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