Ginni Thomas' first political role was working for Republican Rep. Hal Daub in 1981 before leaving to go to law school. She later joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce after a stint of being involved with the cult-like group Lifespring in the late 1980s.
Ginni Thomas first met Clarence Thomas, who was then serving as chairman of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in 1986, and the couple was married one year later. Four years after that, then-President George H.W. Bush nominated Clarence to the Supreme Court in a surprising move that drew criticism for Thomas' staunch conservatism.
For the next 20 years, Clarence Thonas was involved in political interest projects, including investigating President Bill Clinton's administration, building George Bush's potential administration while his victory was being weighed in the Supreme Court, and later signing on as a high-profile face with various conservative conventions and media outlets.
Throughout her husband's time on the Supreme Court, Virginia's involvement in conservative circles has raised concerns about her possible influence. In 2011, she raised eyebrows when she announced Liberty Consulting, a government affairs firm that said she would use her "experience and connections" on behalf of her clients.
Though Ginni Thomas was a vocal supporter of Sen. Ted Cruz's ultimately unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, she appeared to quickly pivot to backing Trump, asking shortly after his election in leaked emails reported by The Daily Beast for the best way to build "a ground up-grassroots army for pro-Trump daily action items to push back against the left's resistance."
Though she has no formal role in the administration, Ginni Thomas' vocal stance as a staunch Trump ally has landed her and her organization, Groundswell, meetings with the president as her far-right views have come to the surface in the form of an alarming social media presence.
Ginni Thomas' Facebook page currently boasts nearly 10,000 followers and is home to a constant stream of posts touting Trump's achievements alongside slamming Democrats, progressive policies, and even congressional Republicans.
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is trying to purge the White House of dissenters. She's been boosting Trump for years.
Loyalists around President Donald Trump's administration identify officials who are considered disloyal so they can be replaced with pro-Trump figures, according to a report from Axios.
One of those close allies is reportedly Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has long raised eyebrows for her hard-right views.
Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows texted about overturning 2020 election
Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in urgent text exchanges in the critical weeks following the vote, according to copies of the messages obtained by CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post.
Those messages — part of 29 total messages obtained — reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, and then-President Donald Trump's top aide during a period when Trump and his allies were vowing to go to the Supreme Court in an effort to subvert the election results.
The messages, which do not directly reference Justice Thomas or the Supreme Court, show for the first time how Ginni Thomas used her access to Trump's inner circle to encourage and seek to guide the president's strategy to overturn the election results — and how receptive and grateful Meadows said he was to receive her advice. Among Thomas' stated goals in the messages was for lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted incendiary and unsupported claims about the election, to become "the lead and the face" of Trump's legal team.
The messages were among the 2,320 text messages that Meadows provided the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The existence of messages between Thomas and Meadows — 21 sent by her; eight by him — have not previously been reported and were reviewed by CBS News and The Post. They were then confirmed by five people who have seen the committee's documents.
To read The Washington Post article, co-written by CBS News' Robert Costa and The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, click here.
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