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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,239 posts)
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 10:11 PM Apr 2022

Ginni Thomas Pushed Trump to Hire Someone the White House Suspected Was a Foreign Spy

Ginni Thomas regularly met with Donald Trump while he was president, often providing him lists of people whom he should fire and hire — one of which the White House suspected of being a foreign spy.

The latest turn in the MAGA unmasking of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, who we learned last week sent a series of text messages pressuring Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to work to overturn the 2020 election, comes by way of a Daily Beast report published Friday.

The meetings between Trump and Thomas didn’t exactly leave the former president in a good mood, according to the Daily Beast. “We all knew that within minutes after Ginni left her meeting with the president, he would start yelling about firing people for being disloyal,” a former senior Trump administration official told the outlet. “When Ginni Thomas showed up, you knew your day was wrecked.”

Thomas’ hiring memos were not taken seriously by Trump aides. According to the Beast, “they were so often filled with infamous bigots and conspiracy theorists, woefully under-qualified names, and obvious close friends of Thomas that several senior Trump aides would laugh at them — that is, until Trump would force his staff to put certain names through the official vetting process, three sources familiar with the matter said.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ginni-thomas-pushed-trump-hire-161013826.html

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Ginni Thomas Pushed Trump to Hire Someone the White House Suspected Was a Foreign Spy (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2022 OP
Think of it-- We lived through this time of horrific behavior and corruption- viva la Apr 2022 #1
I bet it was John Barron! struggle4progress Apr 2022 #2
LOL Skittles Apr 2022 #3
You mean there were some that weren't ALREADY employed by the WH? Takket Apr 2022 #4
RIGHT??? Skittles Apr 2022 #5
Too rotten for Trump? iemanja Apr 2022 #6
That was my thought too. Jeeez. Hoyt Apr 2022 #7
Right. Trump had his own list..... SergeStorms Apr 2022 #8
madness and insanity llashram Apr 2022 #9
And this is the wife of one of our Supreme Court justices? SMH, justice is supposed to be... SWBTATTReg Apr 2022 #10
Under Qualified for That Administration? IbogaProject Apr 2022 #11
This is shocking!!!!! The Trump White House had STANDARDS?!?!?!? Coventina Apr 2022 #12
How does jobs "filled with infamous bigots & conspiracy theorists, woefully under-qualified names, & FSogol Apr 2022 #13

viva la

(3,321 posts)
1. Think of it-- We lived through this time of horrific behavior and corruption-
Sat Apr 2, 2022, 10:17 PM
Apr 2022

And we probably will have nightmares when we read the retrospective books trying to explain all this.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
8. Right. Trump had his own list.....
Sun Apr 3, 2022, 12:09 AM
Apr 2022

of infamous bigots, conspiracy theorists, woefully under-qualified, and his own family and friends. What would he need a list from Ginni for? Toilet paper?

llashram

(6,265 posts)
9. madness and insanity
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 11:31 AM
Apr 2022

at the highest level of our government. Hard to believe Hitlerism, Putinism and of course their student and puppet, respectively, trump actually ruled this country for 4 long very dangerous years. And dangerous only because we had a sub-literate traitor at the helm of this ship of state. Only the actions of the smart crew kept us off the rocks. The contempt I hold for these people is immeasurable...

SWBTATTReg

(22,174 posts)
10. And this is the wife of one of our Supreme Court justices? SMH, justice is supposed to be...
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 12:22 PM
Apr 2022

blind, and here they are, being so blatantly open and consorting w/ one party solely (and being so obviously for djt).

Justice is supposed to be blind, but she is going off and mouthing off to everyone that will listen to her...funny, I didn't know that she was appointed a Justice.

The institution of the Supreme Court has been damaged severely.

Sure, he may not have participated in any wrongdoing, but the appearances of a Justice on the Supreme Court, along w/ his wife involved in such doings, as meeting w/ djt, and others, demands both strict adherence to the impartiality of deciding court cases, listening instead to the evidence that is presented (instead of listening to his wife).

Disgusting and he should be impeached. The entire series of rulings that he's participated in are tainted.

IbogaProject

(2,844 posts)
11. Under Qualified for That Administration?
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 07:53 PM
Apr 2022

Wow, not qualified enough for that "Brain Trust", I can't say too much more that try and phonetically transmit my sounds of awe.

Coventina

(27,172 posts)
12. This is shocking!!!!! The Trump White House had STANDARDS?!?!?!?
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 07:55 PM
Apr 2022

That truly is shocking. I never would have suspected.

FSogol

(45,529 posts)
13. How does jobs "filled with infamous bigots & conspiracy theorists, woefully under-qualified names, &
Mon Apr 4, 2022, 08:03 PM
Apr 2022

obvious close friends" differ from the people Trumpy did hire?

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