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</div><div><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">legal experts are responding to bombshell reporting from <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/03/28/ginni-thomas-crowdsourcers-anonymous-donations/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">The Washington Post</a> revealing <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Ginni+Thomas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ginni Thomas</a>, the spouse of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, who had <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-ginni-thomas-insane-hiring-memos-for-former-president-donald-trump?ref=home" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">unprecedented access</a> to the Trump White House and Oval Office, for years headed a secretive right-wing activist organization funded through a web of dark money groups, whose purpose was to wage a culture war against the left.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The Post reports the organization, Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty, took in nearly $600,000 in anonymous funds to fuel its efforts to battle “cultural Marxism,” as Ginni Thomas, who headed the group, called their mission.<div id="story_page_incontent_p2_target" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5155643920455169" data-ad-slot="6339868799" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px; display: block;" /></div><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Thomas had stepped away from her previous non-profit right-wing activist group “amid concerns that it created potential conflicts for her husband on hot-button issues before the court,” The Post says, and yet, she led Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty, which creates the same concerns. Where is the money coming from? What is the group doing with it? How much crossover is there between her activism and the group’s targets and efforts, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ work?<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">According to The Post, in tax filings of its think tank sponsor, Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty is described as an “informal, unincorporated nonprofit association which serves as an incubator for ideas across a network of conservative leaders, cultural entrepreneurs, and cultural influences.”<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">READ MORE: <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/09/heist-ginni-thomas-tells-j6-committee-election-was-stolen-says-she-never-discussed-efforts-to-overturn-with-spouse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">‘Heist’: Ginni Thomas Tells J6 Committee Election Was Stolen, Says She Never Discussed Efforts to Overturn With Spouse</a><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">It appears great efforts were made to ensure the donors to Thomas’ Crowdsourcers group would not be able to be publicly identified.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">“In 2019, anonymous donors gave the think tank Capital Research Center, or CRC, $596,000 that was designated for Crowdsourcers, according to tax filings and audits the think tank submitted to state regulators. The majority of that money, $400,000, was routed through yet another nonprofit, Donors Trust, according to that organization’s tax filings. Donors Trust is a fund that receives money from wealthy donors whose identities are not disclosed and steers it toward conservative causes,” The Post explains.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Thomas, who is reportedly active in another secretive far-right-wing group, the <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=%22Council+for+National+Policy%22" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Council for National Policy</a>, brought two well-known far-right wing activists from CNP into Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty: former Trump attorney, ally, and advisor Cleta Mitchell, and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/magazine/clarence-thomas-ginni-thomas.html" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the New York Times</a> last year described the Council for National Policy as an organization that “brings together old-school Republican luminaries, Christian conservatives, Tea Party activists and MAGA operatives, with more than 400 members who include leaders of organizations like the Federalist Society, the National Rifle Association and the Family Research Council.”<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">But despite all the obvious red flags, an attorney for Ginni Thomas, Mark Paoletta, told The Washington Post she was “proud of the work she did with Crowdsourcers, which brought together conservative leaders to discuss amplifying conservative values with respect to the battle over culture.”<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">READ MORE: <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/09/ginni-thomas-intertwined-with-vast-campaign-pressuring-supreme-court-to-overturn-roe-report/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ginni Thomas ‘Intertwined’ With ‘Vast’ Campaign Pressuring Supreme Court to Overturn Roe: Report</a><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">“She believes Crowdsourcers identified the Left’s dominance in most cultural lanes, while conservatives were mostly funding political organizations,” Paoletta also told The Post.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">“There is no plausible conflict of interest issue with respect to Justice Thomas,” he claimed.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Others disagree.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who is also an attorney, responded to The Post’s report by <a href="https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1640751445627600902" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">mocking Paoletta’s claim</a> there is no conflict of interest.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">“Donors Trust was central to the far-right Court-packing operation, and now they pass secret donor funds to a justice’s spouse, but ‘no plausible conflict of interest’? Please.”<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Sen. Whitehouse went on to <a href="https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1640751447275962390" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">explain his additional concerns</a>.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">“Plus, remember that the secrecy conduits like Donors Trust keep the public from knowing what’s happening, but nothing prevents the secret donor from telling the spouse or the justice, ‘Hey, that money that secretly came through to you — that’s me.'”<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Adam Smith, Vice President for Democracy Initiatives at the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), <a href="https://twitter.com/asmith83/status/1640687150734749699" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">observed</a>: “Seems like the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice shouldn’t be able to hide the source of huge donations that could be from people with business before the court.”<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">READ MORE: <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/09/ginni-thomas-attempts-to-influence-overturn-of-election-even-wider-than-previously-known/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ginni Thomas’ Attempts to Influence Overturn of Election Even Wider Than Previously Known</a><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">CREW’s President, Noah Bookbinder, a former federal corruption prosecutor, <a href="https://twitter.com/NoahBookbinder/status/1640709001594695683" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">adds</a>: “Hundreds of thousands in anonymous donations to an activist group led by Ginni Thomas, spouse of a Supreme Court justice, raises all kinds of troubling questions about who could be influencing decisions that affect all of us.”<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Attorney and Slate Magazine senior writer covering courts and the law, Mark Joseph Stern, pushed back against any idea the nearly $600,000 funding came from small donations.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">“Ginni Thomas’ various political ventures have never had any small/grassroots donors. They have ALWAYS been funded by a handful of ultra-wealthy individuals and organizations who are very obviously trying to curry favor with her husband,” Stern <a href="https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1640727876591841282" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a>.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Former White House aide and CNN commentator Keith Boykin, also an attorney, <a href="https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1640713970540752898" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">called for Justice Thomas to recuse</a> from certain cases: “If Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had to recuse herself from the Harvard affirmative action case, then Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from all the cases on right-wing issues in which his activist wife, Ginni Thomas, is involved.”<div class="around-the-web" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div class="from-your-siteheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">FROM YOUR SITE ARTICLES</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 589.444px; list-style: none;"><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/Bank/i-admit-it-ginni-thomas-told-the-jan-6-committee-she-never-saw-specific-evidence-of-voter-fraud/" class="from-your-sitelink rm-stats-tracked" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">'I admit it': Ginni Thomas told the Jan. 6 Committee she never saw 'specific evidence' of 'voter fraud' ›</a></li><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/ginni-thomas-2657037943" class="from-your-sitelink rm-stats-tracked" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Why ‘unhinged conspiracy nut’ Ginni Thomas’ post-election texts are relevant to the Supreme Court’s ‘integrity’ and ‘credibility’: conservative ›</a></li><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/ginni-thomas-2659666502/" class="from-your-sitelink rm-stats-tracked" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">Ginni Thomas’ group raised almost $600,000 in 'anonymous donations' to fight 'cultural Marxism': report ›</a></li></ul><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 10px;">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; width: 589.444px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/ginni-thomas-january-6-committee-interview/index.html" class="around-the-weblink rm-stats-tracked" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">First on CNN: Ginni Thomas agrees to January 6 committee interview ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-us-supreme-court-clarence-thomas-virginia-government-and-politics-3b4102509ef93bc37d24d7c8fd79ba80" class="around-the-weblink rm-stats-tracked" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; font-weight: lighter; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">1/6 chairman: Ginni Thomas reiterates false election claims | AP News ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court" class="around-the-weblink rm-stats-tracked" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; 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</div><div align="left"><p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">years before she became one of then-President Donald Trump’s <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ginni-thomas-election-fraud-guru-claims-he-arrested-pope" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">most prominent coup supporters</a>, Ginni Thomas was already notorious in his West Wing for, among other things, ruining staffers’ afternoons by working Trump into fits of <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wanted-his-justice-department-to-stop-snl-from-teasing-him" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">vengeful rage</a>.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">“We all knew that within minutes after Ginni left her meeting with the president, he would start yelling about firing people for being disloyal,” said a former senior Trump administration official. “When Ginni Thomas showed up, you knew your day was wrecked.”<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">Ever since she became a welcome guest at Trump’s residences, Thomas—an influential and longtime conservative activist, and wife of <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-are-livid-at-clarence-thomas-but-have-no-idea-what-to-do-about-it" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas</a>—had perfected a proven formula of enthralling and manipulating the president’s emotions and mood. On multiple occasions throughout the Trump era, Thomas would show up in the White House, sometimes for a private meeting or a luncheon with the president. She often came armed with written memos of who she and her allies believed Trump should hire for plum jobs—and who she thought Trump should promptly purge—that she distributed to Trump and other high-ranking government officials.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">The fire lists were particularly problematic, as they were frequently based on pure conjecture, rumor, or score-settling, where even steadfastly MAGA aides were targeted for being part of the “Deep State” or some other supposedly anti-Trump coalition, according to people who saw them during the Trump administration. The hire lists were so often filled with infamous bigots and conspiracy theorists, woefully under-qualified names, and obvious close friends of Thomas that several senior Trump aides would laugh at them—that is, until Trump would force his staff to put certain names through the official vetting process, three sources familiar with the matter said.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">During the Trump years, these memos would astonish various administration officials, including those working in the White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO). Some of these officials noticed that as the Trump term went on, the Thomas lists would increasingly feature a disproportionate share of names more suited to an <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-host-christina-bobb-has-been-helping-rudy-giuliani-with-trumps-legal-efforts" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">OAN</a> guest line-up than any functional government. (To be fair, well before Ginni Thomas became a recurring visitor, Trump would routinely hire people because they had entertained or excited him, via Fox and other cable-news appearances.)<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">Officials in the PPO regularly annotated the margins of Thomas’ hire lists, usually including a single line for each rejected name, explaining why the prospective hires did not work out. Some failed background checks, or suffered from security-clearance hold-ups. Other annotations noted that a specific individual was offered a job in the Trump administration, but turned it down for whatever reason.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">Sometimes, the reasons for the White House’s preemptive rejection, despite Thomas and Trump’s best efforts, were more outlandish. According to a person who reviewed one of the Thomas lists, one annotation for a MAGA job candidate noted that that individual had made too many extreme or offensive jokes on social media that were still visible.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">Another of these annotations claimed that one recommendation for a Trump administration position was, in fact, a suspected foreign-intelligence asset, or spy.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">Thomas did not respond to requests for comment on this story.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">Over the years, some of the specific names that Thomas had compiled and pushed to Trump and his West Wing have <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.axios.com/trump-memos-deep-state-white-house-ce5be95f-2418-433d-b036-2bf41c9700c3.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">trickled out into the press</a>. Among them were Fox News personality <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-judge-grants-daily-beast-motion-to-dismiss-dan-bonginos-defamation-suit" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Dan Bongino</a>, and the Trump-adulating <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-quietly-ditched-trump-loving-sheriff-david-clarke" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Sheriff David Clarke</a>.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">And according to two sources with knowledge of the matter, Thomas had, unsuccessfully, advised the then-president to hire <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/cruzs-cozy-ties-to-dcs-most-prominent-paranoid-islamophobe" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Frank Gaffney</a>.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">Gaffney, a former Pentagon official in the Reagan administration, has spent the past two decades embracing some of the more absurd conspiracy theories circulating in the far right. <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/03/glenn-beck-and-grover-norquist-nra-board-election-could-lead-beck-to-quit-over-muslim-brotherhood-fears.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">He has accused</a> conservative anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist of being a secret agent for the Muslim Brotherhood and believes that American adversaries are working on secret electrical device-frying “electromagnetic pulse” weapons to zap America back to the pre-industrial age.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">"These fucking lists were so insane and unworkable,” said one former Trump White House official who had to personally deal with the Thomas-supplied memos and Trump’s fascination with them. “A lot of them were dripping with paranoia and read like they were written by a disturbed person.”<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">After Thomas departed, he would soon summon a variety of government personnel—West Wing brass, national security aides, lawyers, and other underlings, depending on proximity or the occasion—to inform them he’d just spoken to “Ginni.”<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">Trump would then identify an official— or, sometimes, he would rattle off a string of names—who he said needed to be sacked “immediately,” according to people familiar with the matter.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">When they could get away with it, several of these Trump administration hands would slow-walk these Thomas-inspired firing directives, and wait until Trump invariably forgot about it, cooled off, and moved on to other fixations and gripes. Others would scramble to try to calm Trump down themselves, advising their boss to reconsider, telling him that a firing or a larger purge in the middle of the Trump term would make him look bad or attract negative media attention.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">Thomas’ interactions with the Trump administration have taken on a new significance since the January 6th House Select Committee released text messages showing her urging Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to help overturn the 2020 election. Members of the committee are now seeking to interview Thomas, whose efforts to overturn the 2020 election included attendance at a “Stop the Steal” rally on the National Mall the day of the insurrection.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">“Trump loved talking to Ginni so much because he loved hearing about who was a Never Trumper, or allegedly one. He loved people who would flatter him, [as Ginni would do],” said Stephanie Grisham, once a top White House aide to Trump who has since had a very public <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-thought-mark-meadows-book-was-fucking-stupid" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">falling-out with</a> the ex-president. “But also, his obsession with loyalty aside, he just loved to gossip—all the time. That’s something else he got out of his series of meetings at the White House with Ginni Thomas.”<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">In the text messages released by the committee last month, Thomas defended Sidney Powell, the “Kraken” lawyer whose election conspiracy theories were so outlandish they earned her a billion-dollar defamation lawsuit, the scorn of rank and file Republican officials, and sanctions from a Michigan court. At the time, a number of Trump aides were trying to distance the president from Powell because of her increasingly outlandish comments about bogus election fraud. Thomas, however, urged Meadows not to yield to mainstream Republicans, according to The New York Times.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">In her texts with Trump’s consigliere, Thomas also showed a fondness for <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ginni-thomas-election-fraud-guru-claims-he-arrested-pope" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Steve Pieczenik</a>, a far-right pundit and onetime Tom Clancy co-author whose conspiracy theories and bogus claims were so far-fetched even InfoWars briefly booted him from appearing on the network. Before he began pushing the fake stories about watermarked fraud-catching ballots that earned Thomas’ endorsement, Pieczenik had pushed QAnon conspiracy theories, claimed to have arrested Pope Francis, and spun bogus stories about prominent mass shootings being false flags.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">During the Obama administration, Thomas and Gaffney participated in a conservative messaging effort known as “<a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas/" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">Groundswell</a>.” The group, an informal network of conservative journalists, pundits, and political operatives, routinely met at the offices of the right-wing activist group Judicial Watch to coordinate talking points opposing the Obama administration’s agenda and <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-ginni-thomas-war-karl-rove/" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">plot the ouster</a> of allegedly moderate Republicans like Karl Rove from the broader conservative movement.the revelation of Thomas’ texts with Meadows prompted the January 6th Committee to seek an interview with her, <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/politics/january-6-committee-ginni-thomas/index.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; transition: color 0.15s ease 0s;">according to CNN</a>, but that effort falls far short of the more legally compelling option of a subpoena.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">In the meantime, Congressional Democrats are divided over how to handle Thomas’ cameo in the Jan. 6 scandal. Some, like Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, have called for Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases while others like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have called for him to step down or be impeached.<p style="line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 19px; padding: 0px calc(32px + ((100% - 176px) / 12) * 2); color: rgb(40, 55, 65); font-family: Georgia, Times, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-style="font-style" normal="normal" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" font-variant-caps="font-variant-caps" font-weight="font-weight" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" orphans="orphans" text-align="text-align" start="start" text-indent="text-indent" px="px" text-transform="text-transform" none="none" white-space="white-space" widows="widows" word-spacing="word-spacing" webkit-text-stroke-width="webkit-text-stroke-width" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" text-decoration-thickness="text-decoration-thickness" initial="initial" text-decoration-style="text-decoration-style" text-decoration-color="text-decoration-color">But the lack of a Democratic supermajority in the Senate means neither of the Thomases are likely to have to give up their jobs just yet.=
</div><div align="left">an badash 1 23</div><div align="left">Lobbyist and promoter of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie,” <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Ginni+Thomas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Ginni Thomas</a>, is uniting with ex-Trump attorney <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Cleta+Mitchell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Cleta Mitchell</a> and two dozen others from the far-right to attack and oppose <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Kevin+McCarthy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">GOP Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy</a>‘s attempt to become Speaker of the House.In <a href="https://conservativeactionproject.com/conservatives-call-for-new-house-leadership/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a joint letter</a> from the Conservative Action Project, Thomas, the spouse of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Mitchell, and the other 24 signatories assail McCarthy’s leadership.“Conservative organizations and the millions of grassroots conservatives we represent are united in our support of the 20 courageous members of Congress seeking to change the status quo in Washington,” the letter reads.Those 20 have voted against McCarthy for Speaker.“Rather than engage them in a good faith negotiation, Rep. Kevin McCarthy has instead maligned both the requests and the messengers. He has publicly and through proxies leveled attacks against members of his own party, including threatening to deny committee assignments for those who continue to oppose him. Moreover, he has failed to answer for, or commit to halting, his coordinated efforts in the 2022 elections to promote moderate Republican candidates over conservatives," it charges.“Because of this, he has thus far failed to garner the 218 votes necessary to lead the House GOP conference in three separate rounds of voting, it adds, although as of now that McCarthy has lost five votes," the letter adds. “The job of the Speaker is to garner a consensus among disparate factions of the party, and unite them.”READ MORE: <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/01/hope-they-get-their-act-together-biden-says-embarrassing-how-house-gop-is-making-us-look-around-the-world/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">‘Hope They Get Their Act Together’: Biden Says ‘Embarrassing’ How House GOP Is Making US Look Around the World</a>The Conservative Action Project, founded in 2008, was behind the 2010 “<a href="https://conservativeactionproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Mount-Vernon-Statement.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Mount Vernon Statement</a>,” an attack on the left that wrongly claims the U.S. Constitution promotes a conservative point of view. It accused the federal government of acting “with little concern for the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant.” There were Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate at the time, and Barack Obama was President.Cleta Mitchell participated in Donald Trump’s infamous phone call to Brad Raffensperger, during which he pressured the Georgia Secretary of State to “find 11,780 votes.” Trump is under criminal investigation over that call. Last year <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/27/trump-georgia-investigation-explained/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">The New York Times</a> reported Mitchell had been subpoenaed by investigators.Mitchell, an <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/meet-cleta-mitchell-the-conservative-movements-anti-gay-eminence-grise/274629/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">anti-LGBTQ activist</a>, was also subpoenaed by the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.She “participated in efforts to prevent, delay, or overturn election results,” and “promoted false claims of election fraud to Members of Congress,” the Committee’s chairman Bennie Thompson <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/03/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-anti-lgbtq-attorney-cleta-mitchell-and-oan-personality/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">charged last year</a>.Among the other signatories are Kenneth Blackwell of the <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Family+Research+Council" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Family Research Council</a>, which appears on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups. Also, David Bossie, the conservative activist and lobbyist who heads Citizens United, the group that won the Supreme Court case that has led to massive amounts of dark money in American politics.</div><div align="left">=</div></div><div>=</div>