Trump Meets With Hard-Right Group Led by Ginni Thomas

[MelissaB]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump met last week with a delegation of hard-right activists led by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, listening quietly as members of the group denounced transgender people and women serving in the military before accusing White House aides of blocking Trump supporters from getting jobs in the administration, according to three people with direct knowledge of the events.

For 60 minutes, Mr. Trump sat, saying little but appearing taken aback, the three people said.

It is unusual for the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice to have such a meeting with the president, and some close to Mr. Trump said it was inappropriate for Ms. Thomas to have asked for a meeting with the head of a different branch of government.

Ms. Thomas has also drawn criticism for sharing social media posts promoting conspiracy theories, including one suggesting that George Soros was working against Mr. Trump and that Democrats had committed voter fraud in the midterm elections.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-ginni-thomas-meeting.html

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[leftieNanner]

1. Along with all of my other progressive pipe dreams

I would like to see the Congress pass ethics laws for the Supreme Court that are the same for every other federal judge in the country. Clarence and Ginni have broken every rule and as the laws stand now, they will never be held accountable.

[sandensea]

5. Hear, hear.

Coke-can man thinks he's Mobutu - a right-wing dictator who got away with every despotic crime on the book for 30 years just because big business and the GOPee backed him (and profited from him).

My guess is that, like Mobutu, Thomas will die ill without ever seeing justice. Ginny, on other hand, will probably die in jail.

[leftieNanner]

7. I just wish some of these ass holes would have some consequences!

My daughters had consequences for unfortunate behavior and they have both grown up to be wonderful human beings - kind, smart, hard working (no Mom bias here).

[sandensea]

8. For the most part that's always been the attitude among the elites:

Entitlement for me; but not for thee.

Thomas, though, strikes me as a garden-variety lowlife with a chip on his shoulder. An underworld type who, humiliated as a child, found a way to worm his way to the top by kissing all the right derrière.

[leftieNanner]

10. A very good description of Thomas

I would put Ben Carson in that category too.

It's also indicated in the disparity of prison sentences for white collar crime vs. everything else. Rob a bank of ten million dollars through a scam - get a slap on the wrist. Rob a bank of ten dollars with a gun - many decades behind bars.

[sandensea]

11. Pharoah Carson. What a character.

I must admit I liked his half a brain quip during the GOPee debates though.

If only he were half as good at his current job. I understand he's turning into a real Samuel Pierce (House Ethics committees, I hope you're watching him).

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. trump. only the very worst people in his circles. Sad.

[MelissaB]

3. Another snip

About a half-dozen White House aides were in the Roosevelt Room last Thursday for the meeting, which was arranged after months of delay, according to the three people. It came about after Mr. and Ms. Thomas had dinner with the president and the first lady, Melania Trump, the people said.

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A central focus for Ms. Hair and Ms. Thomas was administration appointments that they wanted made, and that they accused the president’s aides of blocking. People familiar with the situation indicated that the people Ms. Hair and Ms. Thomas wanted hired were rejected for a range of reasons, and in at least one case, someone was offered a job and declined it because the position was not considered senior enough. Another complaint was that Ms. Thomas had not actually shared the full list of people to be hired, said those familiar with the meeting.

Others attending the meeting included Frank Gaffney, the founder of the Center for Security Policy who has advocated curtailing immigration and has repeatedly denounced Muslims, and Rosemary Jenks, who works for the anti-immigration group NumbersUSA, according to the people familiar with the events.

... snip

One woman in the group argued that women should not serve in the military because they do not have the physical capacity that men do, according to the people familiar with the events.

[lagomorph777]

21. Sounds like Trump is lubing up his SCOTUS cronies for what lies ahead.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Long Dong Silver and TeaBag Ginnie

marriage made somewhere (certainly not in heaven)...

[Iliyah]

6. Conflict of interest . . .

[gtar100]

9. Evil meeting more evil. Nothing good can come of it

unless they destroy each other. Don't trust these people one bit. Bet my bottom dollar they are planning something loathsome. Republicans, particularly these rabid types, don't learn from their failures, they seek revenge.

Vigilance!

[SunSeeker]

12. K & R for exposure.

[keithbvadu2]

13. Ginni must have to be very selective in her h-right wing 'friends' who approve of her mixed marriage

Ginni must have to be very selective in her hard-right wing 'friends' who approve of her mixed marriage.

That crowd is usually not so 'understanding'.

Or maybe they find her a useful idiot because of hubby's position and name recognition.

[czarjak]

20. Clarence is one of the "good ones".

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Guess women will be next to be kicked out of the miliary via EO.

[MissMillie]

15. "It is unusual..."

no sh*t Sherlock

[Hulk]

16. One of the all time WORST SCOTUS tools in the shed

Kavanaugh is an entitled pig, to be sure, awful in every respect; but this Grand Wizard wife to the scared token black on the SCOTUS is 100 times more deplorable and disgusting to have walking the earth, with her mute slave spouse. This spineless turd has her hand firmly up his ass and works his opinions in the high court.
HRC had a monopoly on the word that best describes these assholes....DEPLORABLE. Unfortunately, she backed down from the use of the word. It's fitting...and to this bitch, it isn't bad enough in it's meaning.

[KayF]

17. i'm interested in the "taken aback" part

it's not 100% clear what that is about...

[sarcasmo]

18. Watch for a bunch of Anti Soros tweets coming up this week.

[Vinca]

19. Nut meets nut.

[Scarsdale]

22. Was Ginny sober?

How appropriate for her, a name like Ginny. Remember her drunken phone calls to Anita Hill, and her threats? Ugly woman with an equally ugly husband. No sitting in the background for her, she demands attention.

[LakeSuperiorView]

23. Trump sat still and listened to someone for 60 minutes without wandering off to watch TV?

He must have missed his adderall dose...