Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says she regrets sending texts to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows after the 2020 election, telling the Jan. 6 committee that “I would take them all back if I could today.”
Conservative activist Virginia"Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, walks to a room at the O'Neill House Office Building, part of the Capitol complex, for an interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, Sept. 29, 2022.
The nine-member panel sought Thomas’s interview, and she appeared voluntarily. While Thomas urged Meadows to act, and she is married to one of nine Supreme Court justices who were at the time reviewing Trump’s election challenges, investigators did not believe she played a major role in Trump’s efforts to overturn the election or his inaction as the violent insurrection unfolded. Her name does not appear once in the committee’s final report released last week.
In the interview, Thomas characterized herself as an “instigator” of Groundswell and other conservative advocacy groups that have met weekly as a coalition for years. She and her husband are longtime associates of conservative lawyer John Eastman, an architect of the scheme to have several 2020 battleground states send alternative electors for Trump, rather than Biden.
Thomas said throughout the interview that she still had concerns about election fraud, but offered little evidence. Pressed by the investigators about her post-election efforts to challenge the election results, Thomas demurred. “I think I understood you to say you never saw any list of fraud or irregularities,” Cheney asked her at one point.“But you’re confident there was fraud and irregularities?” Cheney continued.Cheney asked Thomas if she was aware that Trump’s own advisers, attorney general and others had told him there was no fraud that would change the outcome of the election.“I think sometime after this committee started its work,” Thomas replied.
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