Willie R. Tubbs, FISM News
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The worst kept secret in Washington was the substance of the testimony provided to the Jan. 6 committee by Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Thomas met with the committee Friday – allegedly behind closed doors, although the breadth of her testimony was known through leaks to virtually every media outlet in the free world within minutes of Thomas exiting.
A tweet from Fox News field producer James Levinson showed Thomas declining to answer questions from a collection of reporters gathered outside the meeting.
CBS News, one of many outlets with access to cooperative sources who have knowledge of the meeting, reports that Thomas told the committee she’d never discussed pending Supreme Court cases or her political activities with her husband, who is widely believed to be a bigger target of Democrats.
Thomas is reported to have told committee members that Justice Thomas is “uninterested in politics” and that the couple has an “iron-clad rule” against discussing politics in their household.
“I generally do not discuss with him my day-to-day work in politics, the topics I am working on, who I am calling, emailing, texting or meeting,” Thomas told the committee.
With all the talk of Clarence, it’s easy to forget that the Jan. 6 committee is, in theory, supposed to be investigating the level to which Ginni Thomas played a role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol or in former President Donald Trump’s effort to have the election’s results nullified.
There is no evidence to suggest that Thomas played any role in the violence – she is outspoken in her abhorrence of political violence on all sides and was not present at the Capitol when violence broke out. She has described her involvement as “minimal” and limited to publicly urging a deeper investigation into allegations of election fraud.
However, it is known that Thomas texted with Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff under former President Donald Trump.
Democrats have expressed concern that Thomas could have shared information with her husband about her conversation with Meadows and thereby influenced a Supreme Court decision.
“I know he was completely unaware of my texts with Mark Meadows until this committee leaked them to the press while he was in a hospital bed fighting an infection,” Thomas said in her statement. She added that she had never spoken to her husband “about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election, as I was not involved with those challenges in any way.”
Thomas’ testimony lasted about four hours and seems to have done little to satiate the committee’s desire for information. Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee chair, said only that Thomas has answered “some questions,” a phrasing that implies she refused to answer others.
“It’s a work in progress,” Thompson told reporters after the meeting. “At this point, we’re glad she came.”
Thompson’s displeasure is likely at least partially attributable to Thomas’ refusal to backtrack on her belief that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent.
“As she has said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas had significant concerns about fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election,” Mark Paoletta, Thomas’ lawyer, said in a statement. “And, as she told the Committee, her minimal and mainstream activity focused on ensuring that reports of fraud and irregularities were investigated. Beyond that, she played no role in any events after the 2020 election results. As she wrote in a text to Meadows at the time, she also condemned the violence on January 6, as she abhors violence on any side of the aisle.”
Thomas’ appearance certainly landed well with Trump, who took to Truth Social to celebrate.
“Congratulations to Ginni Thomas for having the courage of her convictions,” Trump posted. “Most importantly, she is right. The Election was Rigged and Stolen, and everyone knows it—especially the Radical Left Democrats who are destroying our Country. Cheating on Elections is the only thing they do really well, and that’s because Weak Republicans and RINOs allow them to get away with it. Fortunately, Ginni Thomas is not one of them and, by the way, her husband is Great!”
The Jan. 6 committee has been constructed primarily with the goal of producing (with the help of broadcast experts) public hearings that have been timed to do the most political damage to Trump, whose political fortunes Democrats and two Republicans hope to irreversibly damage through either torpedoing the former president’s popularity or giving the Justice Department the ammunition it needs to pursue charges.
In a move that can at best be described as politically convenient, the Jan. 6 committee has announced that it will present another public hearing, allegedly its last, although this claim is not legally binding, in advance of this fall’s midterm elections.