Jan. 6 Panel Grills Ginni Thomas About Shocking Coup Texts with Trump Team: A Closer Look

-In another surprising development, the committee investigating the January 6

coup

attempt deposed Ginni Thomas, the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice, as more video evidence emerged from another Trump ally, Roger Stone, discussing plans before the election to declare victory. and overturn the results if Trump lost. To learn more about this, it's time for a

closer

look

. ♪♪ There was a breakthrough today in the Congressional investigation into the January 6 insurrection, when the committee investigating the attack took the unprecedented step of deposing the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice. -Today here in Washington, Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, meets with the January 6 Committee. -We know members want to talk to her about text messages she exchanged with Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, about efforts to overturn the election.

She-she She also sent a text message to Trump's then-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, after the election, pressuring him not to concede to Joe Biden. -That's right – Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, was texting Donald Trump's chief of staff, urging him not to concede. I feel like that's not what the framers had in mind when they envisioned separate but equal branches of government. I'm just guessing, but I'm going to assume that Martha Washington was not writing secret letters by candlelight to the first Chief Justice, John Jay: a historical fact. I guess she wasn't writing him letters on parchment that said, "John Adams is an asshole.

Don't let him win the election of 1796 or someday they'll make a miniseries about him starring Paul Giamatti. Yes, The 'Billions' Guy!" !" I'm no legal expert, but I feel like if you're the spouse of a sitting Supreme Court justice, you shouldn't be texting anyone in the government about anything, much less a

coup

. It would be like if I found out my wife was texting James Corden about how great her monologue was last night. And then I would confront her and say, "But he shows up at the same time as me." And she was like, "Wait, you're at 12:30?" And then she said, "It's actually 12:37 and please don't ask me why, because the network doesn't explain it to me either." And by the way, those clips understate what Ginni was actually doing.

She didn't just send text messages to Trump's chief of staff asking him not to concede. She had direct communication with state legislators in Arizona and Wisconsin, pressuring them (again, as the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice) to overturn Biden's victory. And she was also texting some truly bat conspiracy theories from the craziest corners of the Internet, things she'd honestly never heard of until the Ginni Thomas story broke. -The Washington Post obtained copies of messages that had been provided to the committee from January 6 that revealed that Ginni Thomas sent Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, a flurry of text messages in the weeks after the 2020 election, urging him to try to overturn the results. .

She referred to wild far-right conspiracy theories and sent Meadows a link to an absolutely crazy YouTube video that has since been deleted that centered on a false QAnon conspiracy theory. After texting that video to Meadows, Thomas added, "I hope this is true." -Just after the election, he quoted to Meadows language then circulating on pro-Trump sites: "The Biden crime family and voter fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship peddlers, fake media reporters, etc.) are being arrested and detained for election fraud right now and in the coming days, and I will be living on barges in front of GITMO to face military courts for sedition," adding: "I hope this be true." -You know, it almost... almost... makes me feel bad for Clarence Thomas.

I mean, we all know a couple who has to leave every party early because one spouse decided to take back pills and Everclear before the game, and 20 minutes later, they describe out loud some foot problem they have. "Yes, it's turning green. It's about to fall off. Now, who wants to dance?" But think about how crazy that is. Ginni Thomas didn't just think she had the election stolen from her. She thought Joe Biden and the "Biden crime family" would be arrested and live on barges in front of Gitmo. And here's my question: Why a barge from Gitmo instead of just Gitmo?

Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that all the crazy stuff he was texting turned out to be true: that Hugo Chavez

team

ed up with the CIA and Dominion voting machines to rig the election using ballots smuggled from China covered in bamboo fibers . but then Trump caught them secretly putting watermarks on the real ballots and then conducted a sting operation to arrest the Biden crime family and prove that the election was, in fact, stolen. Let's assume for a moment that all of that is true and, wow, wow, I see why you like this! What...? It's like being on Molly and Mountain Dew at the same time.

Oh. Well, if all that is true, why would the military go to the extra trouble of building a barge in front of Gitmo when they already have Gitmo? That's what Gitmo is for. Is Biden supposed to not know how to swim, so he would never escape? Because he

look

s like one of those old guys who would just strip naked and jump in the lake no matter how cold it was. "Grandpa, the water is freezing." "Come in. It'll put some hair on your chest." Oh really? Why a barge outside the prison? Have you ever done that with any other criminal suspect?

Alright, we caught the River City Strangler. Should we put him on Alcatraz? No, for such a bad guy, he gets on the Alcatraz catamaran. And in case all of this isn't strange enough for you, Thomas made her appearance today even stranger when she arrived and a reporter caught up with her and tried to ask her questions. -EM. Thomas, why do you feel like you need to talk to the committee to clear your name? -Thanks for being here. -Did she talk to her husband about her beliefs that the elections were stolen from her? -Thank you for her question.

We look forward to responding to members. - Oh! What's going on here? Is this one of those promos for that new movie "Smile"? If only... If you had only communicated with Ginni Thomas via text and this was the first time you saw her face, you would think, "Oh, no. Oh, that lady was crazy the whole time. Oh, no." ". ! I texted him about government stuff." So, Thomas'

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were crazy. But in a way, they weren't

shocking

because, as we've said many times before, Trump surrounds himself with a group of people who are also While very dangerous and deeply corrupt, they are also incredibly rare.

As a New York City real estate mogul, Trump could have chosen from sophisticated white-collar criminals. Instead, he assembled a

team

of mutants who failed their X-Men auditions. "There's the Pillow Man. His pillows may be soft, but his voice is loud enough to break glass. He is the former mayor. He can pull the skin up behind the head. I'm not sure how well he'll serve you, but he's cool." "To watch him do it. Then there's Roger, the time-traveling drug dealer. You know, he's the one who gave Sherlock Holmes all that opium." Now, we'll get to the more recent developments involving Trump confidant Roger Stone in a second.

But first, let's start with the CEO of My Pillow, Mike Lindell, because, you know, why not? The FBI confiscated Lindell's phone while he was in a Hardee's drive-thru as part of an investigation into a voting machine breach in Colorado that he may have been linked to. And now he's complaining that his new phone has nothing on it because he didn't back up the data on his old phone. -I don't use a laptop. I don't use a computer. Everything was on that phone. One of the things: There were files on that phone that can't be accessed through the cloud and they were passwords.

Some of those passwords were like this: I transfer money from different accounts back and forth. And I have to look for those passwords in those files. I can't access them, Steve. I can't get anything. I took the number and transferred it from my provider to another phone, but the phone is blank. All these things are missing. We... this phone... Like I said, Steve, I would have preferred... I would almost rather have been arrested than taken away from my phone. -I bet he offered that to the FBI and they said no. "Just take me with you!" "No, we're fine." "Please!

Everything was on that phone, including my address, so I don't know how to get home without it. Just let me go sleep with you and sleep in jail behind... oh, bars." Also, Mike, every time you defend yourself, you seem to describe a different possible crime that you may have committed. Why are you transferring money back and forth between different accounts all the time? "I'm always moving money around in an effort to make it look like I have enough to cover my debts. And now I can't. Things are about to get bad." For some reason, these morons are always on camera complaining about something extremely strange, like Rudy, who recently appeared on their podcast to insist once again that the election was stolen and also complained that no one invited him to appear anymore on television. -They are lying about January 6.

They are trying to make substitute electors look like a crime. There's nothing wrong. It was absolutely outdoors. There was no fraud associated with it. They want us to be ignored. They want to put us in prison. They want them to take away all our property. They don't want us to be allowed to work. And they don't want any television network to show us. And so they say it. And the televisions comply. Isn't that fascism? -No, it's not. No... I don't think it's fascism as much as not wanting to scare the children at home. I mean, this should come with a content warning.

This looks like one of those photos they used for the Surgeon General's warning on a cigarette package. Also, can we get back to this? -They don't want them to let us work. -Who we are"? They don't want you employed. And you shouldn't be employed. You are 78 years old. You should be retired and enjoying your golden years, just playing golf in your JNCO shorts. Look at those shorts. I've never seen shorts so big that didn't also have a wallet chain. And then there's Roger Stone, the fourth horseman of the strange ocalypse. Stone has long been a confidant of Donald Trump.

And we told you yesterday that the January 6 Committee also obtained damning new footage of Stone explaining the Trump team's plan to steal the election from a documentary film crew. For example, in one clip, he says directly, before the results are released, that if the result is not immediately clear, Trump's team will simply declare victory anyway. -Let's hope we're celebrating. - -Oh, I know. -I suspect it will be... I really suspect it will still be up in the air. When that happens, the key is to claim victory. Possession is 9/10 of the law. "No, we won. You. Sorry.

Over. We won. You're wrong. You." -He thinks he's a criminal mastermind, but he talks like your father-in-law while he plays Pictionary. "No. You. We won. I drew... No. You. I drew a pickle much better than you, and Sarah said, 'Pickle'. Tell her, Sara." "Actually, I said, 'Microphone.'" "Oh my God, Sarah. Are you on your mother's side now, Sarah? You too." It's both dangerous and also incredibly pathetic. I mean, seriously, can you imagine these four in a room together? "We won. you." "My phone is blank." "Ugh! I sat on my balls." "Thank you for being here.

Thank you for being here." That... Guys, what you just saw was very exciting. That was the rehearsal for my new solo show, "Waiting for Go-D'oh." Ginni Thomas is just the latest example, but she is by no means the only one. The Trump gang, and virtually the entire Republican Party, have bought into a series of increasingly deranged conspiracy theories, and they were so devoted to those insane theories that they actually took very real steps to overturn the election: steps that exposed it. with very specific details in text messages and emails, or on camera over and over again.

There are so many different stories. The committee has to interview so many different people so they can review... -Different accounts back and forth. -This has been... Well, yes, look. Just remember how good the one-man show was. This has been a

closer

look. ♪♪ The midterm elections are approaching, so to make sure you're ready to vote in these elections, visit our good friends at HeadCount.org to check your voter registration status or to register to vote.