{"id":1414509,"date":"2022-04-01T08:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414509"},"modified":"2022-04-01T08:59:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:59:48","slug":"lefty-journo-aaron-rupar-apparently-thinks-clarence-thomas-loving-his-wife-is-incriminating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lefty-journo-aaron-rupar-apparently-thinks-clarence-thomas-loving-his-wife-is-incriminating\/","title":{"rendered":"Lefty Journo Aaron Rupar Apparently Thinks Clarence Thomas Loving His Wife Is Incriminating"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flefty-journo-aaron-rupar-apparently-thinks-clarence-thomas-loving-his-wife-is-incriminating%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414509&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yOTYyMjI5My9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2Mzk0MDEwMX0.M6yg9K5luFHkHJI34Nhn525YIcBlhXZoqESbRqwiDNE\/img.jpg?width=1200&#038;coordinates=0%2C87%2C0%2C246&#038;height=600\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n\tA left-wing freelance reporter tried to smear Justice Clarence Thomas by unearthing an old video of him complimenting his wife, and many on social media responded with mockery and ridicule.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAaron Rupar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1509628155983708161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted a video <\/a>of Thomas telling his wife in an interview how much her support meant to him, and he posted it hoping critics of the couple would find some hidden nefarious meaning in his statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;And the best part of being a justice?&#8221; asked his wife Virginia Thomas in the interview.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;First of all, it\u2019d be impossible without you. It\u2019s sorta like, how do you run with one leg? You can\u2019t,&#8221; said Justice Thomas. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes it whole when I have my wife,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tVirginia Thomas has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/ginni-thomas-jan-6-recuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> to attending the Jan. 6 rally that later turned to violence at the U.S. Capitol, but she has said that she left early in the morning because it was so cold. Later, texts from her to Mark Meadows, who was the White House chief of staff at the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/ginni-thomas-texts-meadows-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detailed her insistence<\/a> that former President Donald Trump stay the course and fight to overturn the official results of the presidential election.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCritics of Justice Thomas have pounced on the revelations to accuse the conservative jurist without evidence of bias in his court rulings. The video from Rupar was apparently an attempt to tie his wife&#8217;s political activism to the Thomas&#8217; career on the highest court of the land.\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"69725\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"329db627162c3cd17fcb5cd0b4d010d5\">\n<div class=\"rm-embed-container rm-embed-twitter rm-loading\">\n            <span class=\"rm-embed-spacer rm-embed-spacer-mobile\"><\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"rm-embed-spacer rm-embed-spacer-desktop\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rm-embed-holder\">\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-custom-tweet\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"1509628155983708161\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\">\n<p>Clarence Thomas to Ginni during a 2018 interview, on the best part of being on SCOTUS: u201cItu2019d be impossible without you. Itu2019s sorta like, how do you run with one leg? You canu2019t. It makes it whole when I have my wife.u201d https:\/\/youtu.be\/9MUiJ5_akJMu00a0pic.twitter.com\/iI87SBz9MV<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/statuses\/1509628155983708161\">1648758374<\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\tMany on Twitter thought the attempt to make something wicked out of the compliment Justice Thomas made to his wife was absurd, and they made their feelings known about it. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;Aaron Rupar EXPOSES Clarence Thomas having a good relationship with his wife,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxNordau\/status\/1509632975000018953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read<\/a> one popular tweet. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine clipping this because you think it makes Clarence Thomas bad,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philipaklein\/status\/1509647231699275779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied<\/a> Phillip Klein of National Review. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;Wow he loves his wife. we really need to think seriously about impeachment,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BecketAdams\/status\/1509630951680266247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> Becket Adams sarcastically. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The difference between a man and a boy is the man celebrates his wife and the boy complains when he sees another male do this,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DLoesch\/status\/1509653248122273798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied<\/a> Dana Loesch. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aaron, I understand that you might be in a bad marriage but I just want to let you know that this clip from Clarence Thomas is actually an example of what a man who loves his wife sounds like. It&#8217;s not the gotcha you seem to want it to be,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1509634799085961216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a> Matt Walsh. <\/p>\n<p>Some on the left have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/democrats-demand-clarence-thomas-be-impeached-over-wife-s-text-messages-i-want-anita-hill-to-get-his-position\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demanded<\/a> that Thomas recuse himself or even resign over the vague accusations of bias, but there are no indications that he will do either. <\/p>\n<h3>Here&#8217;s the full video of the Thomas interview:<\/h3>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\">\n        <span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"4b734cead784aab5a46c51dcb2c9cb06\">[embedded content]<\/span><br \/>\n\t<small class=\"image-media media-caption\">Leaders with Ginni Thomas featuring Clarence Thomas<\/small><br \/>\n\t<small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\"><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9MUiJ5_akJM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.youtube.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A left-wing freelance reporter tried to smear Justice Clarence Thomas by unearthing an old video of him complimenting his wife, and many on social media responded with mockery and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}