Ginni Thomas texts leave GOP lawmakers scrambling
By Rebecca Beitsch and Emily Brooks - 03/29/22 04:43 PM EDT
Ginni Thomas's text messages to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol have sparked questions over the extent of her activism within the GOP.
It’s also left Republican lawmakers grappling with how to respond to Thomas and her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Thomas sent a total of 21 text messages to Meadows, then the president's chief of staff, urging him to find a way to keep former President Trump in office.
Her efforts may have gone beyond her messages to Meadows. NBC News reported that Thomas also reached out to an aide with the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House, asking for its members to go “out in the streets.”
A Republican Study Committee aide disputed that characterization, but in doing so acknowledged the existence of an exchange with Thomas: “It's a misleading description of a single departed staffer’s recounting of an email exchange from 15 months ago,” the aide said.
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