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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/06/20/ginni-thomas-frontliners-john-eastman/
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Speaker at meeting of Ginni Thomas group called Biden’s win illegitimate long after Jan. 6, video shows
By Emma Brown, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Rosalind S. Helderman
June 20, 2022
Virginia "Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, speaking in National Harbor, Md., in 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Two months after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to help President Donald Trump stay in office, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended a gathering of right-wing activists where a speaker declared to roaring applause that Trump was still the “legitimate president,” a video recording of the event shows.
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Two months after rioters stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to help President Donald Trump stay in office, Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended a gathering of right-wing activists where A speaker declared to applause. Video recordings of the incident showed Trump was still the “legitimate president”.
According to a video posted on Facebook by an attendee, clergyman and conservative radio personality CL Bryant told the crowd, “There’s a robbery going on in this country right now.” “Indeed, I say it to you and I will say it loud and clear, and I am not ashamed to say it. I will not bite my tongue. I believe that Donald John Trump is the only legitimate president.”
The March 6, 2021 event was a meeting of Frontliners for Liberty. The group gained national attention from obscurity last week, with the revelation that Thomas had invited pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman to speak to its members in December 2020.
The revelation stemming from the email, that a judge ordered Eastman to be handed over to the House committee investigating the January 6 uprising, showed that Thomas was in contact with Eastman, a key legal architect of the effort to reverse the election. Judge David O’Carter of the Central District of California wrote in a June 7 opinion that the emails, in which the group’s “high-profile leader” had invited Eastman to speak — were relevant to the committee’s work.
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While it has been revealed in recent weeks that Thomas was involved in those efforts before January 6, his appearance at the Orlando gathering indicates that his alliance with election deniers continued even after Joe Biden’s inauguration. According to social media posts, court filings and interviews with several people involved in the group, the frontliners have hosted hard-right lawmakers, insisted on strict secrecy and declared that the country’s top enemy is the “radical fascist leftist”.
[A photo from the Orlando event shows Bryant posing with Thomas. Others showed Thomas wearing a name tag decorated with a yellow ribbon and others called the “Trouble Maker”.
Thomas did not respond to messages seeking comment. Bryant also did not respond to a request for comment.
Thomas’ role in Frontliners was confirmed on Thursday, when Eastman published an email inviting him to speak to the group on December 8, 2020. The email was one of several Eastman sought shields belonging to the group, which was not identified. in court filings. Eastman argued that releasing them to committee would violate the participants’ First Amendment rights.
The group said it was understood as a “cone of silence”, which Eastman wrote in a May filing. He quoted an email received from the group as saying, “[W]We are careful about who is on the phone and who is in the room and we don’t leak what happens, what is said or who is in the meeting – always!”
Eastman on Thursday downplay Significance of the invitation, writing that Thomas asked her to “give updates about the election trial to the group she met from time to time.” She wrote that she did not discuss “any matter pending or likely to come to court” with Thomas or her husband.
The committee has not issued any frontliner emails. It has requested an interview with Thomas and asked him to turn over communications with a number of people, including pro-Trump lawyers, members of Congress and Justice Department staff. Thomas told the Orthodox daily caller Last week that she looked forward to meeting with the committee and “can’t wait to clear up the misunderstanding.”
Disclosures about Thomas’ activities have exposed the potential conflicts of interest that her husband faces in deciding the affairs of the 2020 election and seeks to destroy it. Clarence Thomas has not recused himself from any of those cases—including one in January in which he was the sole justice to back Trump’s request to release White House documents related to Jan. was requested to stop.
A spokesman for the Supreme Court did not respond to questions from Clarence Thomas.
Ginny Thomas has said that she keeps her work separate from her husband.
Members described Frontliners for Liberty as a loose coalition of conservative activists. According to former New Mexico lawmaker Janice Arnold-Jones and a second person familiar with the Frontliners’ operations, the conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks provides group members with significant institutional support, including hosting briefings and “fly-ins” when members are in person. call from. spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the group.
FreedomWorks “partners with Frontliners” but the two are separate entities, FreedomWorks spokesman Peter Vicenzi wrote in an email to The Washington Post.
“Ginny Thomas, over the years, has been an invaluable ally to our activist community when it comes to engaging on shared issues,” wrote Vicenzi. “Thomas himself has been a staunch conservative activist and FreedomWorks is proud to work with him.”
In his email invitation to Eastman, Thomas imitated another recipient, saying that the person – whose name was modified – was assisting with the meeting because “until this election material is resolved, I will I’m on rest.” It is not clear how his role on the sabbatical was different from his earlier role.
Arnold-Jones told The Post that Thomas was not the group’s sole leader. “It extends much more than that,” she said in an interview. “She’s part of it. Sometimes, we see Ginny.”
Arnold-Jones said the group maintains strict secrecy, “so that people can say what they have to say.” She said the group serves an important networking function, connecting state activists with parliamentarians and other decision-makers. But such details are shared with care, she said. “When information is shared, they don’t send a big old letter that says, ‘Here’s their phone number.’ ,
Frontliners for Liberty does not have a web presence except for a private Facebook group of about 50 people, which was founded in August 2020 and administered by Ginny Thomas and Stephanie Miller Coleman, the head of one of Clarence Thomas’ former clerks. was a widow. Coleman did not respond to a request for comment.
The post sparked public-facing details of the Facebook group last week. It has since been removed from public view. The group was designated as “a new collaborative, independence-focused, action-oriented group of state leaders representing ground forces to engage, inform and activate each other weekly to preserve constitutional rule”. was described in.
The banner at the top of the page read: “America’s Enemy … is the Radical Fascist Left.”
Coleman’s personal Facebook page features Trump’s former White House strategist, Stephen K., along with Ginny and Clarence Thomas and other high-profile Washington celebrities. There were pictures of him including Bannon. In a 2015 photo, Coleman poses with Ginny Thomas, who is wearing a pin that reads “I .” [heart] My Husband” and a name tag that identifies the event they were attending as the “Thomas Clerk World Retreat”.
Clarence Thomas’ former clerk communicates on an email list known as Thomas Clerk World, The Post previously did. informed of, In the weeks following the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Ginny Thomas apologized to those in the email list for a rift that developed between her pro-Trump advocacy and her support for her January 6 rally. Eastman is Thomas’s former clerk.
Since The Post saw photos of Coleman last week, it has made most of his Facebook page private.
During his speech at the March gathering in Orlando, Bryant said the nation is embroiled in a “spiritual war” and urged attendees to “stand up and defend this republic.” He denounced changing definitions of marriage, family, and gender, and he repeatedly returned to the belief that the presidency had been stolen.
“It was a theft, I’ll tell you. It was the biggest theft America has ever seen. But still we sit here in the White House with a guy who’s there by deceit,” Bryant said. “My friends, you shouldn’t be afraid to say it. You shouldn’t be afraid to say it.”
Bryant urged the crowd to act, asking: “What are you ready to do?” He continued: “I believe Ginni asked this question. Are we just going to get out of here on the road, go about our business? …when you leave here tonight, what are you ready to do?”
It is not clear whether he was referring to Ginny Thomas. In pictures from the event, she is speaking with a microphone at an outdoor gathering.
The video was posted to the Facebook account of John de Lemme, a podcast host and founder of the Conservative Business Journal.
Di Lemme told The Post that he is not associated with the Frontliners, but heard Bryant’s speech when he and his wife went to lunch and dinner with a friend who was attending the meeting.
Attendees at the Orlando gathering included a wide range of employees from the grass-roots organizer to FreedomWorks employees who later blamed senior economist Stephen Moore for illegally demonstrating at the Capitol during the January 6 riots, which Trump called a Tapped for seat. Federal Reserve Board but withdrawn from thought After bipartisan criticism of his comments about women.
Other attendees included former state lawmakers, political candidates and conservative activists such as Ron Armstrong, a Michigan businessman who rose to national prominence for leading protests against Covid-19 restrictions, and Brian Kamenker, president of Massresistance, which designated as an antagonist. LGBT hate group by Southern Poverty Law Center.
Moore said that he comments at many such events and does not remember details about the group.
Armstrong told The Post that he remembered Thomas giving the welcome remarks in Orlando because he was “obviously someone who cares and would like to say hello or welcome.” He said that frontliners bring workers together on many issues and they do not have any central organizational structure. The Post did not find any corporate records for the group.
“The frontliner is nothing,” he said. “It’s all a bunch of people that gather around messages and causes and make sure we’re working together.”
Camanker did not respond to a request for comment.
Susan Voyles, a longtime conservative activist in Georgia, said she attended the March conference as president of the Georgia chapter of the Conservative Eagle Forumand saw Thomas there. Voyles said the meeting focused primarily on education issues highlighted by the pandemic.
In August, several months after the Orlando gathering, Armstrong posted a letter to state legislators from the Michigan Frontliners for Freedom group on Facebook demanding a “forensic audit” of the 2020 election. Armstrong said that the state group is different from the national collective.
According to a photo posted on Twitter, at aFrontliners event in October, Rep. Paul A.
[Shown the presence of] Gosar (R-Ariz.). Marissa Hamilton, recognized on LinkedIn as the grass-roots director of FreedomWorks, tweeted another photo the same day, apparently from the same incident. It included an image of three other Republican members of Congress who were instrumental in advancing lies about the 2020 election: Louis Gohart [gosar?] (Tex.), Marjorie Taylor Green (Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.).
“Congressman” @replouiegohmert Congress women @mtgreenee and Congress women @laurenboebert Feather @freedomworks Frontliners for Liberty,” according to one version, the tweet read reserve Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Hamilton did not respond to a request for comment, and neither did spokespersons for Goser, Gohmert, Greene and Boebert.
Alice Crits and Amy Gardner contributed to this report.
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Two months after rioters stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to help President Donald Trump stay in office, Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended a gathering of right-wing activists where A speaker declared to applause. Video recordings of the incident showed Trump was still the “legitimate president”.
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According to a video posted on Facebook by an attendee, clergyman and conservative radio personality CL Bryant told the crowd, “There’s a robbery going on in this country right now.” “Indeed, I say it to you and I will say it loud and clear, and I am not ashamed to say it. I will not bite my tongue. I believe that Donald John Trump is the only legitimate president.”
The March 6, 2021 event was a meeting of Frontliners for Liberty. The group gained national attention from obscurity last week, with the revelation that Thomas had invited pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman to speak to its members in December 2020.
The revelation stemming from the email, that a judge ordered Eastman to be handed over to the House committee investigating the January 6 uprising, showed that Thomas was in contact with Eastman, a key legal architect of the effort to reverse the election. Judge David O’Carter of the Central District of California wrote in a June 7 opinion that the emails, in which the group’s “high-profile leader” had invited Eastman to speak — were relevant to the committee’s work...
whereas original message And E-mailWhile it has been revealed in recent weeks that Thomas was involved in those efforts before January 6, his appearance at the Orlando gathering indicates that his alliance with election deniers continued even after Joe Biden’s inauguration. According to social media posts, court filings and interviews with several people involved in the group, the frontliners have hosted hard-right lawmakers, insisted on strict secrecy and declared that the country’s top enemy is the “radical fascist leftist”.
A photo from the Orlando event shows Bryant posing with Thomas. Others showed Thomas wearing a name tag decorated with a yellow ribbon and others called the “Trouble Maker”.
Thomas did not respond to messages seeking comment. Bryant also did not respond to a request for comment.
Thomas’ role in Frontliners was confirmed on Thursday, when Eastman published an email inviting him to speak to the group on December 8, 2020. The email was one of several Eastman sought shields belonging to the group, which was not identified. in court filings. Eastman argued that releasing them to committee would violate the participants’ First Amendment rights.
The group said it was understood as a “cone of silence”, which Eastman wrote in a May filing. He quoted an email received from the group as saying, “[W]We are careful about who is on the phone and who is in the room and we don’t leak what happens, what is said or who is in the meeting – always!”
Eastman on Thursday downplaySignificance of the invitation, writing that Thomas asked her to “give updates about the election trial to the group she met from time to time.” She wrote that she did not discuss “any matter pending or likely to come to court” with Thomas or her husband.
The committee has not issued any frontliner emails. It has requested an interview with Thomas and asked him to turn over communications with a number of people, including pro-Trump lawyers, members of Congress and Justice Department staff. Thomas told the Orthodox daily caller Last week that she looked forward to meeting with the committee and “can’t wait to clear up the misunderstanding.”
Disclosures about Thomas’ activities have exposed the potential conflicts of interest that her husband faces in deciding the affairs of the 2020 election and seeks to destroy it. Clarence Thomas has not recused himself from any of those cases—including one in January in which he was the sole justice to back Trump’s request to release White House documents related to Jan. was requested to stop.
A spokesman for the Supreme Court did not respond to questions from Clarence Thomas.
Ginny Thomas has said that she keeps her work separate from her husband.
Members described Frontliners for Liberty as a loose coalition of conservative activists. According to former New Mexico lawmaker Janice Arnold-Jones and a second person familiar with the Frontliners’ operations, the conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks provides group members with significant institutional support, including hosting briefings and “fly-ins” when members are in person. call from. spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the group.
FreedomWorks “partners with Frontliners” but the two are separate entities, FreedomWorks spokesman Peter Vicenzi wrote in an email to The Washington Post.
“Ginny Thomas, over the years, has been an invaluable ally to our activist community when it comes to engaging on shared issues,” wrote Vicenzi. “Thomas himself has been a staunch conservative activist and FreedomWorks is proud to work with him.”
In his email invitation to Eastman, Thomas imitated another recipient, saying that the person – whose name was modified – was assisting with the meeting because “until this election material is resolved, I will I’m on rest.” It is not clear how his role on the sabbatical was different from his earlier role.
Arnold-Jones told The Post that Thomas was not the group’s sole leader. “It extends much more than that,” she said in an interview. “She’s part of it. Sometimes, we see Ginny.”
Arnold-Jones said the group maintains strict secrecy, “so that people can say what they have to say.” She said the group serves an important networking function, connecting state activists with parliamentarians and other decision-makers. But such details are shared with care, she said. “When information is shared, they don’t send a big old letter that says, ‘Here’s their phone number.’ ,
Frontliners for Liberty does not have a web presence except for a private Facebook group of about 50 people, which was founded in August 2020 and administered by Ginny Thomas and Stephanie Miller Coleman, the head of one of Clarence Thomas’ former clerks. was a widow. Coleman did not respond to a request for comment.
The post sparked public-facing details of the Facebook group last week. It has since been removed from public view. The group was designated as “a new collaborative, independence-focused, action-oriented group of state leaders representing ground forces to engage, inform and activate each other weekly to preserve constitutional rule”. was described in.
The banner at the top of the page read: “America’s Enemy … is the Radical Fascist Left.”
Coleman’s personal Facebook page features Trump’s former White House strategist, Stephen K., along with Ginny and Clarence Thomas and other high-profile Washington celebrities. There were pictures of him including Bannon. In a 2015 photo, Coleman poses with Ginny Thomas, who is wearing a pin that reads “I .” [heart] My Husband” and a name tag that identifies the event they were attending as the “Thomas Clerk World Retreat”.
Clarence Thomas’ former clerk communicates on an email list known as Thomas Clerk World, The Post previously did. informed of, In the weeks following the January 6 attack on the Capitol, Ginny Thomas apologized to those in the email list for a rift that developed between her pro-Trump advocacy and her support for her January 6 rally. Eastman is Thomas’s former clerk.
Since The Post saw photos of Coleman last week, it has made most of his Facebook page private.
During his speech at the March gathering in Orlando, Bryant said the nation is embroiled in a “spiritual war” and urged attendees to “stand up and defend this republic.” He denounced changing definitions of marriage, family, and gender, and he repeatedly returned to the belief that the presidency had been stolen.
“It was a theft, I’ll tell you. It was the biggest theft America has ever seen. But still we sit here in the White House with a guy who’s there by deceit,” Bryant said. “My friends, you shouldn’t be afraid to say it. You shouldn’t be afraid to say it.”
Bryant urged the crowd to act, asking: “What are you ready to do?” He continued: “I believe Ginni asked this question. Are we just going to get out of here on the road, go about our business? …when you leave here tonight, what are you ready to do?”
It is not clear whether he was referring to Ginny Thomas. In pictures from the event, she is speaking with a microphone at an outdoor gathering.
The video was posted to the Facebook account of John de Lemme, a podcast host and founder of the Conservative Business Journal.
Di Lemme told The Post that he is not associated with the Frontliners, but heard Bryant’s speech when he and his wife went to lunch and dinner with a friend who was attending the meeting.
Attendees at the Orlando gathering included a wide range of employees from the grass-roots organizer to FreedomWorks employees who later blamed senior economist Stephen Moore for illegally demonstrating at the Capitol during the January 6 riots, which Trump called a Tapped for seat. Federal Reserve Board but withdrawn from thought After bipartisan criticism of his comments about women.
Other attendees included former state lawmakers, political candidates and conservative activists such as Ron Armstrong, a Michigan businessman who rose to national prominence for leading protests against Covid-19 restrictions, and Brian Kamenker, president of Massresistance, which designated as an antagonist. LGBT hate group by Southern Poverty Law Center.
Moore said that he comments at many such events and does not remember details about the group.
Armstrong told The Post that he remembered Thomas giving the welcome remarks in Orlando because he was “obviously someone who cares and would like to say hello or welcome.” He said that frontliners bring workers together on many issues and they do not have any central organizational structure. The Post did not find any corporate records for the group.
“The frontliner is nothing,” he said. “It’s all a bunch of people that gather around messages and causes and make sure we’re working together.”
Camanker did not respond to a request for comment.
Susan Voyles, a longtime conservative activist in Georgia, said she attended the March conference as president of the Georgia chapter of the Conservative Eagle Forum and saw Thomas there. Voyles said the meeting focused primarily on education issues highlighted by the pandemic.
In August, several months after the Orlando gathering, Armstrong posted a letter to state legislators from the Michigan Frontliners for Freedom group on Facebook demanding a “forensic audit” of the 2020 election. Armstrong said that the state group is different from the national collective.
According to a photo posted on Twitter, at a Frontliners event in October, Rep. Paul A. Shown the presence of Gosar (R-Ariz.). Marissa Hamilton, recognized on LinkedIn as the grass-roots director of FreedomWorks, tweeted another photo the same day, apparently from the same incident. It included an image of three other Republican members of Congress who were instrumental in advancing lies about the 2020 election: Louis Gohart (Tex.), Marjorie Taylor Green (Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.).
“Congressman” @replouiegohmertCongress women @mtgreeneeand Congress women @laurenboebert Feather @freedomworks Frontliners for Liberty,” according to one version, the tweet read reserveInternet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Hamilton did not respond to a request for comment, and neither did spokespersons for Goser, Gohmert, Greene and Boebert.
Alice Crits and Amy Gardner contributed to this report.
#President #Ginny #Thomas #group #meeting #calls #Bidens #victory #illegitimate #long #January #video #show#Source#President at Ginny Thomas group meeting calls Biden’s victory illegitimate long after January 6, video show
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When the wife of a U.S. Supreme Court justice is trying to help a president stay in power even though he has been voted out of office, it is painfully obvious that American democracy is in trouble. It has been well-documented that Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, tried to help keep former President Donald Trump in the White House even after he lost the 2020 election — from a series of text messages exchanged with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to her communications with pro-Trump attorney John C. Eastman. And according to reporting in the Washington Post, Ginni Thomas continued to associate with “Stop the Steal” extremists even after Joe Biden was sworn in as president on January 20, 2021.
In a report published on June 20, Post journalists Emma Brown, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Rosalind S. Helderman explain, “Two months after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to help President Donald Trump stay in office, Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended a gathering of right-wing activists where a speaker declared to roaring applause that Trump was still the ‘legitimate president,’ a video recording of the event shows.”
That event, which took place in Orlando, Florida on March 6, 2021, was a meeting of the group Frontliners for Liberty — and the speaker was the Rev. C.L. Bryant, a Baptist minister and far-right radio host who has also been active in FreedomWorks.Although Bryant endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 GOP presidential primary, he later became an ardent supporter of Trump and the MAGA movement.
A video of the March 6, 2021 event posted on Facebook, according to the Post, shows Bryant saying, “There is a robbery that is going on in this country right now. In fact, I say it to you, and I’ll say it loud and clear — and I’m not ashamed to say it. I won’t bite my tongue. I do believe that Donald John Trump is the only legitimate president.”
Brown, Stanley-Becker and Helderman note that Frontliners for Liberty “vaulted from obscurity to national attention last week with the disclosure that Thomas had invited pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman to speak to its members in December 2020.”
“While text messages and e-mails unearthed in recent weeks have shown that Thomas was involved in those efforts before January 6,” the Post reporters note, “her attendance at the Orlando gathering indicates that her alliance with election deniers continued even after Joe Biden was inaugurated. Frontliners has hosted hard-right lawmakers, insisted on strict secrecy and proclaimed that the nation’s top enemy is the ‘radical fascist left,’ according to social media posts, court filings and interviews with several people involved in the group.”
The reporters add, “One photograph from the Orlando event shows Bryant posing with Thomas. Others show Thomas wearing a name tag decorated with a yellow ribbon she and others wore saying ‘Trouble Maker.’”
Frontliners for Liberty, according to the Post, has made a point of being secretive. Eastman, in a filing in May, said the group operates in a “cone of silence” — which is a “Get Smart” reference from the 1960s. The “cone of silence” was a fictional device on the 1960s television comedy “Get Smart,” which famously blended slapstick humor with the espionage/secret agent genre.
Eastman quoted an e-mail from Frontliners for Liberty, which read, “We are careful about who is on the phone and who is in the room and we do not leak what happens, what is said or who is in the meeting — ever!”
Although Ginni Thomas has claimed that she keeps her work as a MAGA activist separate from her husband’s work on the U.S. Supreme Court, critics of the Thomases believe that Justice Thomas is guilty of some major conflicts of interest. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City has called for Justice Thomas to either resign or be impeached, although her recommendation hasn’t gotten much support from fellow Democrats.
Clarence Thomas hasn’t recused himself from cases involving the 2020 election. And even though his wife has been a major anti-abortion activist, he is among the justices who joined Justice Samuel Alito in a majority draft opinion that called for overturning Roe v. Wade.