The House committee investigating January 6 would like to have a word with Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. And they’ve just indicated that they’re prepared to subpoena her, if necessary.
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union, vice committee chair Liz Cheney, who recently surprised everyone with her vote to support codifying same-sex marriage into federal law, offered a cryptic warning to Mrs. Thomas.
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“The committee is engaged with her counsel, we certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily,” she said, “but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena. If she does not, I hope it doesn’t get to that. I hope she will come in voluntarily.”
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Cheney’s remarks were echoed by fellow committee member Adam Schiff, who told CBS News’ Face the Nation that is Mrs. Thomas “has relevant information … we hope she comes in voluntarily. But if she doesn’t, then we should give [a subpoena] a serious consideration.”
In March, Thomas said she “looked forward” to sitting down with the committee and answering their questions after it was revealed she had been in close–very close–communication with Donald Trump’s camp in the days leading up to the insurrection and sent over 20 totally-not-crazy-sounding text messages to Trump’s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, such as:
Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition.
This was in addition to the multiple emails she exchanged with John Eastman, the Trump lawyer who drafted a memo outlining a plan to subvert the electoral process, as well as the email she sent to 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona urging them to ignore Joe Biden’s popular vote victory and “choose” presidential electors instead.
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Then last month, Thomas inexplicably changed her mind.
After that bombshell January 6 testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, which basically served as the final nail in Trump’s political coffin, Thomas’ lawyer, Mark Paoletta, sent an eight-page letter sent to the committee demanding “a better justification for why Mrs. Thomas’s testimony is relevant,” before he would agree to testify.
“Based on my understanding of the communications that spurred the Committee’s request, I do not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas,” Paoletta wrote.
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Thomas continues to maintain that she “played no role with those who were planning and leading the Jan. 6 events” despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
Here’s what Twitter is saying about the whole thing…
Thank you Liz Cheney, bring her in. pic.twitter.com/r6HNUCTKXP
— Findstrength (@theoceanlistens) July 24, 2022
What happened to Gianni looking forward to voluntarily talking to the J6 committee?
— i need a clever name 🐝 (@gorilla_jen) July 25, 2022
That subpoena should have happened already. Thomas said she would come forward and then failed to. She won’t talk unless compelled to.
— Tina M. Quirk 🌊🇺🇦🌻🇺🇸 (@TMQuirk) July 24, 2022
Won’t she just ignore it?
— @Sassy (@CanadianSassyL) July 24, 2022
Excellent! Thx to the @January6thCmte team https://t.co/ndLPWp4AVq
— 🌻 Justice Matters ⚖🌟🇺🇸 (@ChrisJustice01) July 24, 2022
Which raises the question of what must happen until “If we need to…” turns into “we did subpoena Ginni Thomas”?
— LibertyBansTrumpism (@YesWeCan4Us) July 25, 2022
Don’t wait. Give her a date to appear and stand by it. No one is above the law.
— muther3663 (@muther3663) July 24, 2022
No need to contemplate issuing a subpoena to Ginni Thomas, just do it already since it’s so obvious she was clearly involved in trying to overthrow the US Govt. So tired of this shit.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) July 25, 2022
Where is Merrik Garland?
— Mark Lazar (@lazman252) July 24, 2022
I don’t care about what precedent would be set by subpoenaing ginni thomas. I’m more concerned about the precedent that would be set by allowing her to get away with trying to overthrow democracy because she is the wife of a SCOTUS justice.
— Covie (@covie_93) July 24, 2022
bachy
Take this traitor down! As the wife of a Supreme Court Justice, she’s worse than Mildred Gillars (aka “Axis Sally”) – the American radio propagandist who sided with the Nazis!
thebaddestbabby
Stop rehabilitating Liz Cheney. Her anti-Trump stance is not admirable. She knows she’s not going to be re-elected in November. It is a very transparent ploy to get some sort of pundit job at CNN or MSNBC, which will no doubt happen because people such as you are able to overlook the horrific hard, hard right policies she has advanced over the years.
If there was a gun to my head forcing the choice, I’d sooner shake hands with Aaron Shock than Liz Cheney.
humble charlie
stop being a big baby, babby. cheney is doing good by revealing the chicanery of drumpf. of course, in many ways she’s horrible (she’s a republican after all) and there are also horrible democrats (of which biden is one).
as to aaron shock, don’t shake his hand, shake shock’s phenis instead.
Den
Nobody is “rehabilitating” Liz Cheney. People are simply noting that she has in this instance chosen integrity over party loyalty. It is possible to hold horrific right wing views and nonetheless recognize a threat to the continuance of democracy. And, if one is not pro Trump, her anti-Trump views ARE admirable.
Your post is rather suspect regarding your views, and I assume a rather transparent disingenuousness at work.
twomen4u
I hope Liz Cheney turns the screws on Thomas. You have to know there has been a lot of pillow talk between her and her husband. Then to call and text the fake electors is treason in its purest sense.
NateOcean
Word is that Clarence is a back-door man, and Ginni digs it.
Cam
Time for criminals like Ginni Thomas to testify.
chat fisher
Like the image of a gun to your head. Tell me why you are on this site???????
thebaddestbabby
cuz I’m a bad babby who cuts class and smokes your daddy’s grass, duh!
mailliw110
Why did CryBabby think you were talking about him? Maybe it’s his methhead talking.
thebaddestbabby
In my original post, I, the baddest of babbys, said, “If there was a gun to my head forcing the choice…” Ergo, chat fisher was obviously talking about me. I may be badd, but my reading skills are better than yours.
jrmat654
It would be such pure poetic justice to see Clarence brought down and impeached as a result of all of these unAmerican shenanigans. He is as treasonous as, if not worse, than the orange baboon.
Neoprene
Cryptic – having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure. Doesn’t look like Liz’s warning to the Mrs. Thomas was cryptic at all, except to the short bus writers at the Big Q.
thebaddestbabby
don’t make fun of mentally disabled people you festering anal sore
scotty
just slap some irons on her and throw her and her traitorous husband in the brig already.
CNY1983
anyone else think that “pubic-hair in my coke can” encouraged her to break a shitload of laws so she’ll sit out the rest of their interracial marriage in the “can”?
watch the swinging start happening when they take her away.