Justice Thomas's wife should be subpoenaed for 1-6 committee

[pbmus]

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gotta turn over every stone and look in every crevice...

[Takket]

1. oof... i don't know about that.........

i don't think the public would react well at all to the committee targeting a family member of SCOTUS.

i certainly appreciate that she had a hand in all this, and i'd like to know what she knows too... but with hundreds of witnesses to go through and many bigger fish to fry... maybe let that dog lie.

[dflprincess]

6. It might depend on just how much support she gave them.

And I'd bet the committee already knows if her contribution to the insurrection was substantial

I think the majority of the public is fed up with the conspirators and if Thomas was one of them she should go down with the others.

If it brings the justice down as well that would be fine - at the very least this would leave him in a position where he'd need to recuse himself from any cases touching on January 6.

[Takket]

8. if someone testifies about communicating with her......

and that person says she knew about the plot to at the very least disrupt the electoral count, THEN haul her in. but if she just put together the bus rides of her own free will to help a "protest" and no one else talked to her about it... leave it alone. Find some more smoke before looking for the fire.

i can just see the media going berserk with stories about the committee overstepping its bounds and blah blah blah (which you know they are ITCHING to do...) if they go after her on nothing more than "she paid for the buses"

[Volaris]

12. I agree. Paying for bus rides to what she thought was a standard, run of the mill, protest

is DIFFERENT than 'she KNEW what was up and abetted an insurraction'.

If PROOF of the second before the committee, yes DRAG her ass down into the well of the House. If just the first, leave her be and let's have a conversation with Ali Alexander (who probably asked her for bus fare, right?).

[GaYellowDawg]

16. Which media?

Do you think that the Washington Post, the NYT, and CNN are “ITCHING” to go after the committee? I think that’s ludicrous, and I think you and others on here need to be more careful to not lump legitimate media in with right wing trash.

[zaj]

9. How would the public react to the family member...

...targeting 250 years of American democracy?

[grumpyduck]

2. No.

If she was involved she needs to face the music.

[Progressive Jones]

3. Thomas isn't the Chief Justice, but I agree on looking into his wife's possible involvement. nt

[RainCaster]

14. But I feel sorry for the committee members who

... look into that crack. Ewwww.

[Jeebo]

4. Clarence Thomas is not the chief justice.

Correction needed.

-- Ron

[JHB]

5. The main benefit would be putting her in the news and reminding people she's a lobbyist and...

...political activist in ways that highlight her husbands flagrant disregard for "even the appearance of conflicts of interest."

IIRC, her ties to organizations involved with 1/6 were somewhat ephemeral and all of them expired before that date.

[Maine-i-ac]

7. Who chartered those buses.

Lot of people brought in, many not at their own expense. Follow the money. Who benefited from bringing them all to DC?

[Hoyt]

10. If there is solid proof, go for it. If just hoping, probably a mistake.

[Rhiannon12866]

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[fierywoman]

13. Do I recall correctly that Ginni Thomas contributed /- $50,000 toward bus rentals?

[Celerity]

18. No- That said, she has pushed a lot of other RW bullshit over the years.

Did Clarence Thomas’ Wife Ginni Sponsor 80 Buses to Capitol Riots?

The wife of the Supreme Court justice has been a vocal activist for fringe right-wing causes for over a decade.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ginni-thomas-buses/



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Thomas is indeed a well-known right-wing organizer and conspiracy theorist. She provided Trump with several memos outlining what she believed to be government officials unfaithful to Trump, lobbied successfully for appointments of Trump loyalists to government posts, and along with other activists met with him in 2019 to discuss “appointments … that they accused the president’s aides of blocking,” for example. In 2016 — as Snopes reported in an October 2020 investigation, she was also part of efforts to promote false talking points regarding illegal voting by immigrants in the 2016 election.

However, as Stern, the Slate reporter, tweeted: “even if [Turning Point USA] funded transportation to the insurrection (and we should not automatically believe Charlie Kirk), Thomas had nothing to do with it.” As such, the claim that Ginni Thomas organized “80 buses” for the Save America Rally is false.

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[KS Toronado]

15. There's bigger fish to fry....like the FailedCoupGuy

After we get him we can go after those that enabled him.

[Hav]

17. So what did she do?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ginni-thomas-buses/

Snopes already dealt with that old claim about paying for busses.