By OSWALD T. BROWN
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 2, 2022 – Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas’ declaration during her appearance on Thursday, September 29, before the Select Committee Investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol that she still believes the 2020 election was stolen was shocking, to say the least.
Even more astounding was her reported claim that she never discussed her post-election activities with her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has emerged as the most controversial Justice in the history of the U.S. highest federal court and the head of the U.S. Judicial Branch of Government.
According to her opening statement, as reported by NBC News, Mrs. Thomas said, “Regarding the 2020 election, I did not speak with him at all about the details of my volunteer campaign activities. And I did not speak with him at all about the details of my post-election activities, which were minimal, in any event. I am certain I never spoke with him about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election, as I was not involved with those challenges in any way.”
Mrs. Thomas also reportedly said her husband “was completely unaware” of her text messages to Mark Meadows “until this Committee leaked them to the press.”
Like most people who read about Mrs. Thomas’ appearance before the Select Committee, I was convinced that this assertion was absolutely incredulous. How is it possible that such a seemingly deeply in love couple – at least based on published photographs of them together – can go to bed at nights and not discuss what their “day was like,” if only briefly?
Consequently, I decided to some research on Ginni Thomas to find out if she is indeed an “angel in disguise” or a “snake oil salesperson” camouflaging the fact that her marriage to Justice Thomas is not as loving as it appears to be.
Politically, she has always been a bedrock Republican, but there is no mention in the extensive background information on her in Wikipedia about her views on race relations, which one would naturally expect would be noted in the online encyclopedia, given the fact that she is a white woman married to a Black man.
“Ginni” Thomas was born on February 23, 1957, and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, the youngest of four children born to Donald Lamp, an engineer who owned his own firm, and Marjorie Lamp, a stay-at-home mother. Her parents were Republicans.
“Thomas attended Westside High School in Omaha, where she was a member of student government, the debate club, and the Republican club,” Wikipedia notes. “While she was in high school, her ambition was to be elected to Congress. She enrolled in a women’s college in Virginia because of its proximity to Washington, D.C., subsequently transferred to the University of Nebraska, and then moved to Creighton University to be closer to a boyfriend. She received a Bachelor of Arts in political science and business communication from Creighton University and a Juris Doctor from Creighton University School of Law (1983).”
Ginni Thomas began her career working for Republican Hal Daub while he was a member of the United States House of Representatives. When Daub took office in 1981, Thomas moved to Washington, D.C., and worked in his office for 18 months. After completing her degree at Creighton University School of Law in 1983, she worked one more year for Daub in Washington as his legislative director. From 1985 to 1989, she was employed as an attorney and labor relations specialist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, attending congressional hearings where she represented the interests of the business community. Her advocacy included arguing against the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. In 1989, she became manager of employee relations at the Chamber of Commerce.
Exactly when she met Clarence Thomas is not documented, but they were married in 1987, and Ginni “converted from Protestantism to her husband’s Catholic faith in 2002,” according to Wikipedia, which added: “She was inspired by his devotion of praying the Litany of Humility and participating in the Mass.”
EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE RESULTS OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS DOCUMENTED ON WIKIPEDIA
According to The New York Times, in the days following the 2020 presidential election, the board of the Council for National Policy issued a call to action to its members to keep Trump in power, despite his loss. The call to action instructed members to “pressure Republican lawmakers into challenging the election results and appointing alternate slates of electors.” In May 2022, The Washington Post obtained emails Thomas had sent to Arizona legislators beginning days after the November 2020 election, urging them to choose “a clean slate of Electors.” Though the emails did not mention either presidential candidate, Biden had been declared the winner in Arizona. She wrote the emails on a platform that allowed pre-written form emails to be sent to multiple elected officials, and she sent them to 29 lawmakers. In September 2022, The Washington Post reported that Thomas emailed Wisconsin state senator Kathy Bernier and Wisconsin state representative Gary Tauchen with verbatim copies of the Arizona emails urging them to set aside the results of the popular vote and choose their own electors.
Prior to January 6, Thomas promoted a Stop the Steal rally on Facebook. Thomas told the Washington Free Beacon that she attended the Stop the Steal rally that preceded the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack but left before Trump took the stage at noon.
After January 6, baseless claims that Thomas had paid to shuttle demonstrators to Washington D.C. proliferated online. A year after the attack, fact checkers again debunked claims that Thomas was one of the organizers of the events of January 6, 2021.
The Washington Post reported that after the storming of the U.S. Capitol, Thomas, on a private email LISTSERV of her husband’s former law clerks, expressed her apologies for contributing to a rift among the group. The internal rift reportedly concerned “pro-Trump postings and former Thomas clerk John Eastman, who spoke at the rally and represented Trump in some of his failed lawsuits filed to overturn the 2020 election results.”Eastman is a close friend of both Thomases.
An April 2022 Quinnipiac poll found that 52% of Americans said that, in light of Ginni Thomas’s texts to Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows about overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election, Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from cases about the 2020 election.
CAPTION: Regarding the 2020 election, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas claims she did not speak with her husband Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “at all about the details of my volunteer campaign activities.” She and Justice Thomas were married in 1987, and she “converted from Protestantism to her husband’s Catholic faith in 2002,” according to Wikipedia.
