Clarence Thomas Faces Fresh Investigation Calls Over 'Spousal Support'
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Supreme Court Associate Justice
Clarence Thomas is facing fresh calls for an investigation following the release of his wife's testimony to the House of Representatives' January 6 committee.
Conservative activist Virginia 'Ginni' Thomas told the committee that she "never spoke" with her husband
about challenges to the 2020 presidential election but some of her comments have led to calls for a probe into Justice Thomas.
ark Meadows saying she had spoken to her "best friend" and identified that person as her husband.
Thomas was asked what she and her husband had talked about and she replied: "I wish I could remember but I have no memory of the specifics. My husband often administers spousal support to the wife that's upset. So I assume that's what it was. I don't have a specific memory of it."
Her comment about "spousal support" has been seized on by some critics, who have renewed calls for an investigation into the justice.
"It appears, from Ginni Thomas J6 Comte. transcript, that Justice Thomas provided his wife with some form of counseling that reassured her as she plotted to overturn the 2020 Pres. election," tweeted legal reporter Lyle Denniston. "That's enough for full public airing in
Senate Judic. Comte., w/ subpoenas to both."
David Brock, founder of Media Matters for America, shared that tweet and added: "More fodder for
Clarence Thomas's impeachment inquiry."
Morning Joe shreds Ginni Thomas for playing 'victim' when she's married to one of the most powerful men in America
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed Ginni Thomas for trying to help Donald Trump overturn his election loss based on flimsy claims of fraud.
Transcripts of her testimony were released Friday by the House select committee, and the "Morning Joe" host was appalled by her willingness to toss away the votes of millions of Americans to keep the defeated former president in offie.
"I have to say, I have known her for a very long time and, of course, when
was until the House she was always, of course, focused on helping Republicans in power," Scarborough said. "That's all she cared about. For conservatives like us that were actually trying to bring reform, she constantly fought us, constantly saw us as the enemy. Now on the other side of it, you've got Donald Trump who loses an election, and she's drawn to power and willing to do just about anything, says they're mainstream, says her views are mainstream."
"You know, there's this victimhood," he added. "You look at her statements and her lawyer's statement, she doesn't really regret that she sent these texts. If you read the transcript, she regrets that they were printed. That's all she regrets, and this victimhood, again, I think it fits perfectly into the twisted logic of Trumpism, that the most powerful people in America, the richest billionaires in America, the people that have run America for 400 years, they're the ones who are victimized, the rich are victimized, asked to pay average tax rates. The powerful are victimized by 'woke' college professors and, in her case, the powerful are victimized when they were asked to respond to texts that show that she is trying to overthrow Madisonian democracy and the white majority that has run the United States for 400 years is victimized, well, by everyone, especially when they don't win every election."