Ginni Thomas told the Jan. 6 committee she 'regret' texting Mark Meadows about a 'coup' and pushing Sidney Powell's 'Kraken' plan

• In the wake of the 2020 election, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas sent a number of texts and posts.

• The wife of Clarence Thomas said she didn't know what she was talking about.

• The time after the election was emotional for the woman.

Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told the January 6 committee that she regretted her post-2020 election texts and statements that warned of Democrats trying to steal the election.

During a deposition in September, Thomas said that he regretted all of the texts. The transcript of her testimony was made public.

As she traded messages with the White House chief of staff, Thomas was clearly emotional.

It was a difficult time. When asked if she was talking to another top Trump aide, Thomas said she was probably just emoting.

Among the things Thomas wrote were her frustration about the "whole coup" and her initial support for Sidney Powell, a later Trump lawyer who promised for months to "release the Kraken" of supposed evidence of widespread voter fraud. Thomas told the panel she wasn't sure what she was talking about.

There is a wall between her conservative activism and her work on the nation's highest court, according to Thomas. She didn't discuss the election cases with her husband. The most senior justice on the court is not interested in politics, according to Thomas.

A reference to her "best friend" bucking her up on November 24th was the closest she came to acknowledging any political conversations with Justice Thomas. "If you all cave to the elites, I will leave politics," Thomas said in a text message.

Thomas told the panel of the conversation that she had no recollection of the details. My husband gives support to the wife that is upset. I assumed that was what it was.

There was a public uproar after the Washington Post and CBS published text messages between Thomas and Meadows. After the texts came to light, several Democratic lawmakers called on Thomas to not be involved in the cases.

Thomas discussed her attendance at the January 6 rally with the panel in more detail. She left when she got cold. She was unsure if she stayed for the speech.

She said that Joe Biden is the president. Thomas refused to concede that fraud was a factor in the outcome. Several Republicans, including then-Attorney General Bill Barr, have said that fraud did not affect the election.

Thomas told the panel at another point that she worried about the election being distorted but it wasn't uncovered in a timely manner.

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