Ginni Thomas’ lawyer wants Jan. 6 committee to ‘provide a better justification for why her testimony is relevant’.  

Ginni Thomas' attorney wants Jan. 6 committee to 'provide a better justification' for why her testimony is relevant.  

The lawyer for Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas threw cold water on the possibility of his client ever voluntarily appearing before the Jan. 6 committee in a letter to the committee on Tuesday.

“I am asking the Committee to provide a better justification for why Mrs. Thomas’s testimony is relevant to the Committee’s legislative purpose,” attorney Mark Paoletta wrote in the letter.

“I do not believe there is a sufficient basis to speak with Mrs Thomas,” he added. “Perhaps the committee has more information that would establish that basis, and I am willing to reconsider my recommendation if you make the information available.”


The response came after the Jan. 6 committee sent a letter to Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, earlier this month asking her to meet with the panel in July and provide documents that could be relevant to their investigation.

The committee has emails of communication between Ginni Thomas and Trump election attorney John Eastman, as well as text messages between her and Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that shows her urging him to fight to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In the Tuesday letter Paoletta denied that Eastman and Thomas discussed litigation strategy and dismissed her texts with Meadows, claiming she was speaking out as a “private citizen,” and “simply texting with a friend.”

Additionally, Paoletta wrote that he has “larger concerns” about whether the committee will be fair to Thomas. He referred to comments the committee’s chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), made about Justice Thomas in 2014. Thompson called Justice Thomas “Uncle Tom” and said he “doesn’t like Black people, doesn’t like being Black.”


“These statements by the Committee’s Chairman certainly raise alarm bells when the Committee says that it wants to speak with Mrs. Thomas,” Paoletta wrote.

Earlier this month, Thomas told the Daily Caller that she “can’t wait” to talk to the Jan. 6 committee to clear up ‘misconceptions’

But, according to Paoletta, “based on my understanding of the communications that spurred the Committee’s request, I do not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas.”