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Omaha Steve

(98,872 posts)
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:04 PM Sep 2022

Ginni Thomas claims 2020 election was stolen in meeting with House Jan. 6 committee

Source: USA Today

Lawmakers wanted to ask Thomas about her urging Trump White House and officials in several states to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

By Bart Jansen

WASHINGTON – Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeated claims the 2020 election was stolen, despite a lack of evidence, while testifying Thursday before the House committee investigating the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.

The committee wanted to interview Ginni Thomas about her advocacy for challenging the results of the 2020 election. The chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters after the session she repeated her opinion the election was stolen despite a lack of evidence.

"She said that," Thompson told CNN.




Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/29/ginni-thomas-house-jan-6-committee/10459283002/

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Ginni Thomas claims 2020 election was stolen in meeting with House Jan. 6 committee (Original Post) Omaha Steve Sep 2022 OP
OMG... PittBlue Sep 2022 #1
+1 area51 Sep 2022 #8
As are more than 60% of Republican voters. Martin Eden Sep 2022 #21
Completely insane SouthernDem4ever Sep 2022 #31
Dominion and Smartmatics voting machine companies are suing for defamation. ShazzieB Oct 2022 #60
Belief NQAS Sep 2022 #2
THIS orangecrush Sep 2022 #51
Ginni Thomas also thinks madashelltoo Sep 2022 #3
Cultists gotta cult. nt Gore1FL Sep 2022 #4
So true Rebl2 Sep 2022 #7
They all want to die on the hill of crazy. Solly Mack Sep 2022 #5
of course she did mike_c Sep 2022 #6
Joseph Goebbels: The Big Lie Botany Sep 2022 #9
Fortunately for us, they lack the reach of Goebbels Warpy Sep 2022 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author Botany Sep 2022 #10
This thing Katcat Sep 2022 #11
Piece of work is too nice of a way to describe her SouthernDem4ever Sep 2022 #48
She is as looney as it gets Buckeyeblue Sep 2022 #12
She just looks like the type... Tolerant1 Sep 2022 #13
All she needs is a rolling pin to smack into her palm, and there's the stereotype Warpy Sep 2022 #18
Warpy, what an image you conjured up! Tolerant1 Sep 2022 #19
Or maybe a frying pan to the back of the head... oldsoftie Sep 2022 #34
Welcome to DU, Tolerant1! calimary Sep 2022 #38
Clarence is just as bad GenThePerservering Sep 2022 #41
Yes, the difference is that he's a lot smarter than her Polybius Sep 2022 #57
Low-level intellects like Ms. Thomas.... rlegro Sep 2022 #14
There is absolutely NO DOUBT in my mind that her husband will bluestarone Sep 2022 #15
Her husband needs to resign now. She's a traitor. He's compromised. ZonkerHarris Sep 2022 #16
She has a mind like a rusty steel trap rlegro Sep 2022 #17
She really is a magat moran SouthernDem4ever Sep 2022 #49
If it looks like a psycho freak, BigmanPigman Sep 2022 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author Fiendish Thingy Sep 2022 #22
Bennie Thompson is not the person needed at the moment. Let Jamie or Adam run it FCS. Evolve Dammit Sep 2022 #23
psychotic witch TomDaisy Sep 2022 #24
I can believe that they moon is made of green cheese, but I have no proof to support it. Lonestarblue Sep 2022 #26
Hey ginni...let's see the receipts! Got none??? Then STFU!! PortTack Sep 2022 #27
I'd like someone to wipe that slimy grin off her hateful face. llmart Sep 2022 #28
Arrogant, smug asshole. BradAllison Sep 2022 #29
Basically, she was just saying, fuck you ashredux Sep 2022 #30
On a related note it's been confirmed GinnieT is a NoMoreRepugs Sep 2022 #32
PROVE IT, ginni. calimary Sep 2022 #33
A new defense: I'm too fucking crazy for you to deal with... mpcamb Sep 2022 #35
Arrest her! Throw her in the slammer. LiberalFighter Sep 2022 #36
Tell her those black and white striped prison outfits are slimming. calimary Sep 2022 #39
Is she going for an insanity defense? SunSeeker Sep 2022 #37
A new defense: I'm too fucking crazy for you to deal with... mpcamb Sep 2022 #40
The tinfoil hat must be on her head too tight sakabatou Sep 2022 #42
Ginni really needs to try to keep it together. LudwigPastorius Sep 2022 #43
Whatever she believes is irrelevant, reporting on it is a distraction. The issue is what she DID. RockRaven Sep 2022 #44
I'd... myohmy2 Sep 2022 #45
Well yes, she will say the election was stolen. Aussie105 Sep 2022 #46
Deprogramming Was a Lucrative Business Roy Rolling Sep 2022 #47
I am sooooo shocked Bengus81 Sep 2022 #50
What you get when their bullshit goes unchecked for years Bucky Sep 2022 #52
Evidence??? TNNurse Sep 2022 #53
She is a sick piece of s**t...apologies to all people who have to take a s**t. Stuart G Sep 2022 #54
She has said as much publicly, IIRC 867-5309. Sep 2022 #55
And now she finally says so on record Torchlight Sep 2022 #56
Surrounding her, unseen in that type shot are seven lawyers. mahina Sep 2022 #58
What a SACK of SHIT. BigDemVoter Sep 2022 #59
She is sick Demovictory9 Oct 2022 #61

ShazzieB

(15,791 posts)
60. Dominion and Smartmatics voting machine companies are suing for defamation.
Sat Oct 1, 2022, 01:18 AM
Oct 2022

There are multiple lawsuits in progress, against a number of different people and corporations. The list includes Mike Lindell, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Fox News, and more!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/09/19/after-court-lets-fox-news-challenge-move-forward-heres-where-dominion-and-smartmatic-defamation-suits-stand-now-and-who-could-be-next/

I think most of the accusations were aimed at those companies rather than specific election boards or officials, and I expect they'll win.

NQAS

(10,749 posts)
2. Belief
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:11 PM
Sep 2022

Not referring to religion. And I’m not a doctor. But these two statements are pretty much most normal peoples guiding principles.

Believing something that isn’t true does make it true.

Believing something that isn’t true that has repeatedly been proven not to be true is an illness.




mike_c

(36,191 posts)
6. of course she did
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:15 PM
Sep 2022

She's a Supreme Court justice's spouse. Admitting that the election wasn't "stolen" after having earlier maintained it was would destroy her credibility. Look at Alex Jones, for example.

Botany

(70,219 posts)
9. Joseph Goebbels: The Big Lie
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:25 PM
Sep 2022

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

BTW Ginni damn well knows that Trump lost but in the end she is a "Good Nazi" in the ongoing Christo Fascist Coup.

Warpy

(110,744 posts)
25. Fortunately for us, they lack the reach of Goebbels
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 07:16 PM
Sep 2022

because TVs and radios that are permanently tuned to OAN and Pox and Newsmax haven't been distributed free to any household that wants a new TV or radio.

Since most people choose other alternatives, including sports and entertainment if they're not news junkies, The Big Lie is being seen as a hallmark of insanity and treated accordingly at the polls (so far).

Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Katcat

(212 posts)
11. This thing
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:30 PM
Sep 2022

Is enjoying her life of power too damn much. She’s abusing her husband’s position for fame, money and power. In short, she’s a real piece of work!

Buckeyeblue

(5,489 posts)
12. She is as looney as it gets
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:32 PM
Sep 2022

And there is no reason to believe Clarence isn't as bad. I suspect the 3 blind mice that Trump appointed are just as bad.

 

Tolerant1

(41 posts)
13. She just looks like the type...
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:38 PM
Sep 2022

of wife that rides her husband like a dime store pony on every perceived f***ing thing. Poor Clarence has had a rough day at the office, and there she stands in the garage, having heard the garage door opening. Hell, she probably was tracking him on "Find My Friends."And she's ready to pounce. Why? It doesn't matter. To her, it's a big damn deal. Poor Clarence...

I can't relate...in...any...way.

Warpy

(110,744 posts)
18. All she needs is a rolling pin to smack into her palm, and there's the stereotype
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:48 PM
Sep 2022

I'm looking at the bitter line of her mouth and the messianic zeal in her eyes and all I can come up with is that she needs treatment of one kind or another.

I'd still rather see her than be her. She's wallowed in right wing horseshit so long she has become one with it.

 

Tolerant1

(41 posts)
19. Warpy, what an image you conjured up!
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:55 PM
Sep 2022

I guaran-damn-tee you she calls the shots in that house! The scorn we hold for her husband would probably be better directed at her. She's dangerous.

calimary

(80,521 posts)
38. Welcome to DU, Tolerant1!
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 08:49 PM
Sep 2022

They deserve each other - except repositioned. BOTH OF 'EM as far away from power as possible.

Polybius

(15,184 posts)
57. Yes, the difference is that he's a lot smarter than her
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 12:12 PM
Sep 2022

He votes right wing, but doesn't do the things she does and says in public.

rlegro

(338 posts)
14. Low-level intellects like Ms. Thomas....
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:41 PM
Sep 2022

(and I make that claim about her based on reading her ungrammatical tweets) used to say they relied on "alternative facts" to stake out their claims. They now entirely rely on pure faith, demanding more inquiries even when dozens or hundreds of such inquiries in courts, election commission recounts and audits, and other sources find nothing of consequence. Republican politics are now no more than a faith-based system, and the faith they serve is a very narrow, twisted version of fundamentalist Christian tenets. We won't be a great country again until she and her husband and their ilk are again hiding asleep in the woodwork and under moldy leaves, only coming out every 26 years in the night to mate.

bluestarone

(16,641 posts)
15. There is absolutely NO DOUBT in my mind that her husband will
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:42 PM
Sep 2022

100% vote to install TFG as president, if given the chance! Also would vote to let state legislatures disregard their own voters choice. Install their own electors!

rlegro

(338 posts)
17. She has a mind like a rusty steel trap
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:46 PM
Sep 2022

For example, take this direct quote from Thomas in the USA Today article:

“Do not concede,” Thomas wrote on Nov. 6, 2020. “It takes time for the army who is gathering for his back.”
and: "[Biden's win] was “the greatest Heist of our History.”

I wouldn't hire her to be a substitute kindergarten teacher.

BigmanPigman

(51,366 posts)
20. If it looks like a psycho freak,
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 06:55 PM
Sep 2022

walks like a psycho freak and acts like a psycho freak there is only one conclusion...she IS a psycho freak (right up there with the rest of the treasonous bastards). Try her and give her the same justice all treasonous enemies of the state should receive. Fuck her and her psycho freak hubby. Off with their heads!

Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Lonestarblue

(9,808 posts)
26. I can believe that they moon is made of green cheese, but I have no proof to support it.
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 07:17 PM
Sep 2022

Same with the 2020 election. Every person like Thomas needs to be forces to read the. Ourt cases Trump brought and explain their lack of credible evidence of fraud. Conspiracy theories with no basis of fact are not proof. These people are utter fools.

calimary

(80,521 posts)
33. PROVE IT, ginni.
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 08:17 PM
Sep 2022

Show us the proof. WHERE'S the evidence? And NO, you don't get extra time to make some shit up to "prove" your point. Show what you've got - NOW. And under oath.

RockRaven

(14,709 posts)
44. Whatever she believes is irrelevant, reporting on it is a distraction. The issue is what she DID.
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 11:40 PM
Sep 2022

It hardly matters though, because powerful and connected people hardly ever get prosecuted in this country. She's never going to get what she deserves from the criminal justice system.

myohmy2

(3,118 posts)
45. I'd...
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 11:57 PM
Sep 2022

...be interested in knowing what else she claims...

...this is what influences the highest court in the land...

...what a fuckin' joke...

...

Aussie105

(5,171 posts)
46. Well yes, she will say the election was stolen.
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 01:29 AM
Sep 2022

Without that 'fact', everything she says, thinks and does/has done just falls apart.

Makes sense! (Not to me though.)

Roy Rolling

(6,831 posts)
47. Deprogramming Was a Lucrative Business
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 05:52 AM
Sep 2022

After the Jonestown tragedy, the 1980s and 1990s were full of profiteers like Thomas taking money from distraught family members. She cashed-in, she didn’t fight the cults themselves. No, she took money from cult victims.

Why not oppose the cults? Because she profits from her own cult of “deprogrammers”—as idiotic as any of the cults she professes to extract people from. She are a cult. 😂

TNNurse

(6,905 posts)
53. Evidence???
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 08:48 AM
Sep 2022

She also apparently said she and her husband NEVER discussed whether the election was fair or not. Yeah, sure.

Torchlight

(3,205 posts)
56. And now she finally says so on record
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 12:00 PM
Sep 2022

Making it much more difficult to run away from our own positions as she has done since May.

mahina

(17,456 posts)
58. Surrounding her, unseen in that type shot are seven lawyers.
Fri Sep 30, 2022, 02:22 PM
Sep 2022

Maybe one or two of them or security I don’t know but that’s a lot of lawyers and we should know who those people are.

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