{"id":1519079,"date":"2022-06-16T13:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519079"},"modified":"2022-06-16T13:19:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:19:43","slug":"ginni-thomas-says-she-looks-forward-to-talking-to-january-6-committee-wants-to-clear-up-misconceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ginni-thomas-says-she-looks-forward-to-talking-to-january-6-committee-wants-to-clear-up-misconceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginni Thomas Says She Looks \u2018Forward To Talking To\u2019 January 6 Committee, Wants To \u2018Clear Up Misconceptions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fginni-thomas-says-she-looks-forward-to-talking-to-january-6-committee-wants-to-clear-up-misconceptions%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=1519079&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--><p>Virginia \u201cGinni\u201d Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told the Daily Caller on Thursday that she \u201ccan\u2019t wait to clear up misconceptions\u201d amid news that the January 6 House Select Committee plans to seek her testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/16\/ginni-thomas-jan-6-panel\">told<\/a> Axios on Thursday that they \u201cthink it\u2019s time that we, at some point, invite her [Thomas] to come talk to the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to clear up misconceptions. I look forward to talking to them,\u201d Thomas told the Caller in response to the news, suggesting she would comply with a request to testify.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/19\/ginni-clarence-thomas-supreme-court\/\">Thomas<\/a> did not immediately respond when pressed on what misconceptions the committee has.<\/p>\n<p>The committee wants to speak to Thomas because they \u201cdiscovered \u2026 some information that refers to Ginni Thomas\u201d in emails between the Supreme Court justice\u2019s wife and John Eastman, Thompson said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7452752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7452752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Al Schmidt, former city commissioner of Philadelphia, BJay Pak, former U.S. Attorney in Atlanta, and Benjamin Ginsberg, Washington attorney and elections lawyer, are sworn in as Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., watch from the dais as the House select committee tasked with investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol hold a hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S. June 13, 2022. Jabin Botsford\/Pool via REUTERS\/File Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eastman, a conservative attorney, played a key role in former President Donald Trump\u2019s push to overturn the 2020 election, the January 6 committee has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2022\/06\/15\/cheney-releases-january-6-video-eric-herschmann-eastman-sot-ac-vpx.cnn\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, a conservative activist, attended the rally on January 6 that preceded the riot at the Capitol but left early, she <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/exclusive-ginni-thomas-sets-the-record-straight-on-january-6\/\">told<\/a> The Washington Free Beacon in March. Critics have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/clarence-ginni-thomas-recusal-ruth-bader-ginsburg\/\">argued<\/a> that her activism poses a problem for her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/16\/justice-clarence-thomas-calls-out-media\/\">husband<\/a>, who sits on the Supreme Court. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/clarence-ginni-thomas-recusal-paoletta-severino-dhillon\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0\u2018Unprecedented\u2019: Conservative Lawyers Condemn Coordinated Effort To Discredit Clarence Thomas)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The emails between Thomas and Eastman are still in the \u201cdiscovery phase,\u201d though they may be mentioned \u201cat some point\u201d during the public hearings that will take place <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/06\/how-to-watch-january-6-hearings-online-tv-schedule-1235040755\/\">throughout<\/a> June, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/16\/jan-6-panel-leaders-prepare-to-call-ginni-thomas-00040208\">reported.<\/a> The committee\u2019s immediate goal in speaking with Thomas is to suss out her alleged \u201crole\u201d in Trump\u2019s push to overturn the 2020 election, Politico also noted.<\/p>\n<p>The January 6 committee is holding its third hearing Thursday. It will be focused on Trump\u2019s effort to get former Vice President Mike Pence to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/04\/trump-wrong-mike-pence-rebukes-claim-overturned-2020-election\/\">overturn<\/a> the results of the election.<\/p>\n<p>The invite for Thomas to testify will come \u201csoon,\u201d according to Thompson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia \u201cGinni\u201d Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told the Daily Caller on Thursday that she \u201ccan\u2019t wait to clear up misconceptions\u201d amid news that the January 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"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-1519079","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\/1519079","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519079\/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=1519079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}