The select House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot reportedly has text messages between Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
News of the text messages was first reported by CNN.
Sources told the network that the messages took place between early November 2020 and mid-January 2021 and were turned over to the committee by Meadows during the short period of time he was cooperating with their investigation.
On Nov. 10, after the major networks projected that then-candidate Joe Biden was elected president, Thomas messaged Meadows saying: “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!…You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History,” according to the Washington Post.
“The intense pressures you and our President are now experiencing are more intense than Anything Experienced (but I only felt a fraction of it in 1991),” Thomas wrote to Meadows on November 19, 2020, according to The Post. The text seemingly referred to her husband’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991, when lawyer Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harrassment.
“This is a fight of good versus evil,” Meadows wrote to Thomas on Nov. 24, according the Post. “Evil always looks like the victor until the King of Kings triumphs. Do not grow weary in well doing. The fight continues. I have staked my career on it. Well at least my time in DC on it.”
Four days after the Capitol insurrection, Thomas texted Meadows, criticizing Vice President Mike Pence for certifying the election for Joe Biden.
“We are living through what feels like the end of America,” Thomas wrote. “Most of us are disgusted with the VP and are in listening mode to see where to fight with our teams. Those who attacked the Capitol are not representative of our great teams of patriots for DJT!!”
“Amazing times,” she said. “The end of Liberty.”
CNN noted that the texts in the committee’s possession do not necessarily represent the sum total of communication between Thomas and Meadows during that period of time.
Thomas revealed recently in an interview that she attended the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in D.C. that preceded the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The revelation of text messages between Thomas and Meadows comes at a time when there are questions about whether Ginni’s work as a conservative activist raises ethical issues relating to Justice Thomas’ role on the Supreme Court.
However, Ginni told the Washington Free Beacon that her activism has no bearing on Justice Thomas’ work on the court.
“Like so many married couples, we share many of the same ideals, principles, and aspirations for America,” she said. “But we have our own separate careers, and our own ideas and opinions too. Clarence doesn’t discuss his work with me, and I don’t involve him in my work.”
This post was updated to include reporting from the Washington Post.
