Ginni Thomas.Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty
That’s why, she said, she sent text messages to those close to Trump, urging them not to concede the election and to fully embrace the former president’s claims of fraud, despite any evidence. Now, however, she regrets “all of those texts,” she told the committee.
Three days after the election, for instance, Thomas wrote Meadows: “Do not concede. It takes time for the army who is gathering for his back.”
Of her text messages with Meadows, Thomas said she now regrets “the tone and content,” saying, “it was an emotional time, and I was texting with a friend who I had known a long time. So I really find my language imprudent and my choices of sending the context of these emails unfortunate.”
Thomas was also found to have written emails to at least 29 lawmakersin Arizona, pressing them “to set aside Joe Biden’s popular vote victory and ‘choose’ presidential electors.”
In a voluntary interview with the committee, Thomas said, “there’s a lot of people uncomfortable with the 2020 election despite what this committee is pushing” — a remark that echoes the claims of the former president and his allies.
But Thomas told the committee she “wouldn’t have believed” that people like Barr “were able to identify and track down” the same sort of irregularities that she claimed to be “hearing from the grass roots in certain states.”
Asked for specifics about the fraud that concerned her, Thomas said: “I can’t say that I was familiar at the time with any specific evidence. I was just hearing it from news reports and friends on the ground, grassroots activists who were inside of various polling places that found things suspicious.”
Thomas previously acknowledged that she attended the rally that preceded the Capitol riots on Jan. 6, though she toldThe Washington Free Beaconthat she left before then-President Trump addressed the crowd. She has said she “played no role with those who were planningand leading the Jan. 6 events.”
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Thomas' communications with Trump allies have raised questions about whether it poses a conflict of interest for her husband, and if he should recuse himself from Supreme Court cases related to the 2020 presidential election.
Speaking to the committee, Thomas said she had not discussed legal challenges to the election with her husband, saying she “was not involved in those challenges in any way.”
source: people.com
