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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGinni Thomas pressed for GOP lawmakers to protest 2020 election results
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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Breaking NBC: Shortly after the 2020 election, Ginni Thomas sent an email to an aide to a prominent House conservative saying she would have nothing to do with his group until his members go "out in the streets."
nbcnews.com
Ginni Thomas pressed for GOP lawmakers to protest 2020 election results
The conservative activist and wife of a Supreme Court justice said in a Nov. 2020 email that Republicans weren't doing enough to help Trump and needed to be "out in the streets."
3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2022
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Breaking NBC: Shortly after the 2020 election, Ginni Thomas sent an email to an aide to a prominent House conservative saying she would have nothing to do with his group until his members go "out in the streets."
nbcnews.com
Ginni Thomas pressed for GOP lawmakers to protest 2020 election results
The conservative activist and wife of a Supreme Court justice said in a Nov. 2020 email that Republicans weren't doing enough to help Trump and needed to be "out in the streets."
3:00 PM · Mar 25, 2022
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ginni-thomas-pressed-gop-lawmakers-protest-2020-election-results-rcna21644
WASHINGTON Shortly after the 2020 election, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent an email to an aide to a prominent House conservative saying she would have nothing to do with his group until his members go out in the streets, a congressional source familiar with the exchange told NBC News.
Thomas told an aide to incoming Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks, R-Ind., that she was more aligned with the far-right House Freedom Caucus, whose leaders just two months later would lead the fight in Congress to overturn the results of Democrat Joe Bidens victory.
The RSC was long representative of the most conservative House members, but in the past several years, it has been replaced by the tea party-driven Freedom Caucus.
Thomas wrote to the aide that Freedom Caucus members were tougher than RSC members, were in the fight and had then-President Donald Trumps back, according to the source familiar with the email contents. Until she saw RSC members out in the streets and in the fight, she said, she would not help the RSC, the largest caucus of conservatives on Capitol Hill.
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Ginni Thomas pressed for GOP lawmakers to protest 2020 election results (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
OP
Oh boy, this will be the one that goes somewhere. DOJ does nothing, Trump is untouchable.
dem4decades
Mar 2022
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dem4decades
(11,241 posts)1. Oh boy, this will be the one that goes somewhere. DOJ does nothing, Trump is untouchable.
How long ago did the J6 Committee send the Meadows request to DOJ? Too afraid of Trump to act, Michael Cohen goes to jail for doing Trump's dirty work, Trump walks, DOJ lets him off.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. Fortunately, "out in the street rallies" are not illegal in this country. If she said, "storm the
Capitol and stop the vote count," we've got her and maybe her husband.
MagickMuffin
(15,890 posts)3. Boy o boy did she ever think of herself as all important
I guess having a packed Supreme Court gave her even more power thinking the court would interfer once more to install their man as pResident. Good thing fat Tony no longer has a seat on the bench.
And the court ruled in favor of the Jan6 commission, but Ginni's Bestie voted against it.
EXPOSED
milestogo
(16,829 posts)4. What a crazy bitch.
agingdem
(7,756 posts)5. I don't give a damn about Ginni Thomas
I don't care if she has a sit-down with the J6 committee...I want her husband off the court and if his ridiculous wife is the weapon that takes him down then so be it...