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Ginni Thomas, a Conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, said she was looking forward to the opportunity to “clarify misconceptions” following the news that the House Select Committee on January 6 is calling for his testimony.
“I can’t wait to clear up any misconceptions. I’m really looking forward to talking to them,” Thomas told the Daily Caller of the request for her to test.
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FILE – Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Judge Clarence Thomas, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 23, 2017. (Photo AP / Susan Walsh, Archive)
Thomas did not say what misconceptions the committee has.
Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Told reporters on Thursday: “We have sent a letter to Mrs. Thomas asking [her] come talk to the committee “.
The committee wants to talk to Thomas because they discovered “some information referring to Ginni Thomas” in emails between her and Trump’s attorney, John Eastman, Thompson told Axios.
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Democrat Bennie Thompson, Democrat Speaker of Parliament, investigating the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, speaks to the media after a committee hearing on Thursday, June 16, 2022 , on Capitol Hill. in Washington. (Photo by AP / Jacquelyn Martin)
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Eastman, the committee said, played a key role in the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Thomas told The Washington Free Beacon in March that he attended Trump’s January 6 rally, which took place before the Capitol attack, but that he left early, before the then president stepped down. stage, because it had cooled.
Supreme Court Associate Judge Clarence Thomas is sitting with his wife and Conservative activist Ginni Thomas as he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
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The committee’s initial goal in questioning Thomas is to determine his role, if any, in Trump’s efforts to cancel the 2020 election, Politico reported. The emails between Thomas and Eastman are still in the “discovery phase,” Thompson said, but could be mentioned “sometime” during the Jan. 6 hearings.