{"id":1531703,"date":"2022-06-28T19:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531703"},"modified":"2022-06-28T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:34:35","slug":"exclusive-ginni-thomas-demands-context-from-j6-panel-before-shell-cooperate-with-the-hostile-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-ginni-thomas-demands-context-from-j6-panel-before-shell-cooperate-with-the-hostile-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Ginni Thomas Demands Context From J6 Panel Before She\u2019ll Cooperate With The Hostile Probe"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fexclusive-ginni-thomas-demands-context-from-j6-panel-before-shell-cooperate-with-the-hostile-probe%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=1531703&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/32317079833_03e8a455c0_k-e1656456958303.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Virginia \u201cGinni\u201d Thomas, a prominent conservative activist who is also married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is demanding that the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 elaborate on its basis for soliciting testimony over privately petitioning her own government. <\/p>\n<p>Hours after the Jan. 6 Committee wrapped up its seventh hearing on Tuesday, Ginni\u2019s attorney, Mark Paoletta, sent a letter to the panel\u2019s leadership requesting specifics on why the probe with an open animosity for the Thomas family seeks to publicly drag his client before lawmakers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs. Thomas is eager to clear her name and is willing to appear before the Committee to do so,\u201d Paoletta wrote to Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice-Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. \u201cHowever, based on my understanding of the communications that spurred the Committee\u2019s request, I do not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March, Ginni became the center of a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/the-attacks-on-clarence-and-ginni-thomas-are-merely-latest-in-a-decades-long-smear-campaign\/\">fabricated controversy<\/a> related to the Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s investigation when the panel leaked a series of private text messages with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. The messages, 29 in all, revealed a conservative activist pleading with a government official to continue investigating allegations of election fraud in the pandemic-era contest, which included record-level turnout in the form of mail-in voting that was ripe for misconduct. <\/p>\n<p>Committee members <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/16\/the-jan-6-committees-targeting-of-ginni-thomas-is-despicable\/\">escalated<\/a> their efforts to compel Ginni\u2019s testimony earlier this month after more private communications were revealed with individuals involved in former President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to halt certification of the 2020 election. Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/16\/ginni-thomas-jan-6-panel\">told<\/a> Axios his colleagues on the panel \u201cthink it\u2019s time that we, at some point, invite her [Thomas] to come talk to the committee.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ginni said shortly after she looked \u201cforward to talking to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to clear up misconceptions,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/16\/ginni-thomas-talk-testify-january-6-committee-clear-up-thompson-eastman\/\">told<\/a> the Daily Caller. <\/p>\n<p>Further examination of the committee\u2019s request, however, has given Ginni pause.<\/p>\n<p>The panel\u2019s request focuses on Ginni\u2019s communications with attorney and law professor John Eastman, who produced legal theories to justify delays in certification of the electoral college. The extent of the pair\u2019s contact, however, as outlined by Paoletta, stretches to generic emails forwarded by Ginni on a large distribution list and an invitation to speak to a group of conservative activists, a type of event Ginni organizes regularly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a single document shows any coordination between Mrs. Thomas and Mr. Eastman,\u201d Paoletta wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Paoletta also outlined skepticism that the committee was operating in good faith in its desire to bring Ginni before lawmakers, considering her husband is among the most targeted members of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2014\/04\/30\/bennie-thompson-clarence-thomas-uncle-tom\/81226252\/\">stood by<\/a> his comments calling Justice Thomas \u201cUncle Tom\u201d in a speech with the New Nation of Islam, which believes \u201cintermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas \u201cdoesn\u2019t like black people, [and] he doesn\u2019t like being black,\u201d the congressman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese statements by the Committee\u2019s chairman certainly raise alarm bells when the committee says that it wants to speak with Mrs. Thomas,\u201d Paoletta wrote. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia \u201cGinni\u201d Thomas, a prominent conservative activist who is also married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is demanding that the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 elaborate on its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"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-1531703","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\/1531703","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531703\/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=1531703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}