The Washington Post and CBS reported Thursday that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sent 21 text messages urging the White House Chief of Staff to contest the 2020 election results.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is at the Heritage Foundation with his wife.
According to CBS News and the Post, the texts between Meadows and Thomas are part of a trove of records that the congressman handed over to the House committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol building.
In the weeks after the election, Thomas suggested making a fringe attorney, Sidney Powell, the lead and the face of Trump's post- election push.
Four days after the Capitol riot, Thomas told the congressman that she was "disgusted" with Vice President Mike Pence, who refused to interfere when Congress certified President Joe Biden's win.
At one point, he promised to fight until there is no fight left, though he also said Powell had repeated false claims about vote-rigging.
The Capitol riot committee did not respond to requests for comment on the text messages that were sent to Forbes.
As Trump's staffers and allies fought to overturn his election loss and repeated false voter fraud allegations, the text exchanges between Thomas andMeadows came. Thomas, an activist and lobbyist, appeared to show an interest in Trump's post- election efforts. She told the Washington FreeBeacon that she was disappointed and frustrated by the violence at the morning rally. The New York Times reported last month that she played a peacemaking role between the organizers of the January 6 rally and an organization that was planning to challenge election results. Conflict-of-interest concerns about Justice Clarence Thomas have occasionally been raised by Thomas' activism, though she claims to not discuss high court decisions with her husband until they are public.
The House lawmakers received the texts shortly before he cut off cooperation with the January 6 committee. The House voted last year to recommend contempt of Congress charges, but it's not clear if the Department of Justice will seek an indictment.
Texts show that Virginia Thomas urged the White House to try to overturn the election.
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