The Washington Post reported that it had received a hiding of 29 text messages between Ginny Thomas and Mark Mendow, then Trump’s top aide in the White House, who exchanged the turbulent days after the November 2020 election. In the text, Thomas blatantly urged Meadows to do everything he could to overturn the Democratic result, to thwart Joe Biden’s victory and keep Trump in power. Ethics groups, members of Congress, law professors, experts and a host of other stakeholders responded to the revelations with surprise and concern. The Thomas-Meadows text contained in a treasury of 2,320 Meadows digital communications that were handed over to a select House of Representatives investigating the January 6 invasion of the US Capitol by Trump supporters. These communications were received only after the Supreme Court ordered their transfer to Congress, rejecting Trump’s claims that they were covered by an executive privilege. The court ordered the material to be leaked, including Ginni Thomas’s texts, by an 8-1 vote – with Clarence Thomas providing the only dispute. Norman Ornstein, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, described the development as “a scandal of enormous proportions.” Describing Ginny Thomas as a “radical insurgency”, she said it was time for the Jan. 6 commission to summon her texts and emails to see what other incriminating evidence was out there. Laurence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School, called on the Justice Department to investigate the apparent conspiracy between Thomas, Meadows and Trump. “It’s hard to see Judge Thomas not resign when that’s in the Supreme Court,” he said. The whole story:
