Jan. 6 committee to review Ginni Thomas-Mark Meadows texts: reports

• Textual content alternate between Mark Meadows and Virginia Thomas reveals plans to overturn 2020 election.
• Virginia “Ginni” Thomas is the spouse of Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas.
• The Home Choose Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot is reviewing the 29 textual content messages.

WASHINGTON – Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist and the spouse of Supreme Court docket Affiliate Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed a high White Home official in President Donald Trump’s administration to overturn the 2020 election, in accordance with copies of the messages reviewed by a number of information organizations. 

The textual content messages, that are being reviewed by the Home Choose Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, underscore the entry Thomas, who goes by Ginni, had with the Trump administration. The messages had been between Thomas and then-White Home Chief of Employees Mark Meadows and are dated from early November 2020 to mid-January 2021, varied shops reported Thursday.

The Jan. 6 Committee declined to remark.

The existence of the messages was revealed by the Washington Submit, CBS Information, CNN and different shops. The messages did not point out the Supreme Court docket or Justice Thomas, who’s presently being handled with antibiotics at a Washington hospital, in accordance with the Washington Submit.

USA TODAY has not independently seen the messages.

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As information organizations projected Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election in November 2020, Thomas wrote to Meadows that he ought to “Assist This Nice President stand agency, Mark!!!…You’re the chief, with him, who’s standing for America’s constitutional governance on the precipice. The bulk is aware of Biden and the Left is making an attempt the best Heist of our Historical past,” in accordance with The Submit. 

Meadows wrote to Thomas weeks later, describing the White Home’s efforts to overturn the election as a “struggle of fine versus evil,” the Submit reported. 

The paper additionally reported that Meadows’ lawyer, George Terwilliger III, confirmed the existence of 29 messages between Meadows and Thomas, however mentioned “nothing concerning the textual content messages presents any authorized points.” Terwilliger declined to remark to USA TODAY.

Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist, has drawn consideration in latest months for her efforts to help Trump – even because the Supreme Court docket was deciding instances concerning the election.

Thomas drew fireplace earlier this month after acknowledging in an interview with The Washington Free Beacon that she attended the rally outdoors the White Home on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump used the rally to whip up a crowd with false allegations of voter fraud earlier than a bunch of his supporters descended on the Capitol as lawmakers licensed Biden’s victory.

Ginni Thomas mentioned she left the rally earlier than the president took the stage – and had no half within the subsequent riot on the Capitol. However the acknowledgement was one other instance underscoring the bizarre dynamic between Justice Thomas, who has weighed in on a number of instances held over from the 2020 election, and his spouse, who has questioned whether or not the election was fraudulent.

USA TODAY has reached out to Thomas for remark.

Contributing: John Fritze