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Matthew Cantor

Ginni Thomas urged Trump’s chief of staff to overturn election results

Ginni and Clarence Thomas walk through the White House in formal wear.
Ginni and Clarence Thomas arrive at the White House for a state dinner. Texts between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows pushed Trump’s ‘big lie’. Photograph: Erin Scott/Reuters

In the weeks after the 2020 election, the rightwing activist Ginni Thomas – who is married to the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas – repeatedly implored Donald Trump’s chief of staff to help overturn the results, according to text messages obtained by the Washington Post and CBS News.

In one of 29 messages seen by the news outlets, Thomas wrote to Mark Meadows on 10 November: “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!! … You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”

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