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  • You knew your day was over when Ginni Thomas showed up, said a former White House official.

  • According to the Daily Beast, Thomas pitched Trump on people she thought he should fire.

  • He would start yelling about firing people for being disloyal after she left.

According to a new report from the Daily Beast, a former Trump White House official said "you knew your day was wrecked" when the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas showed up at the White House to meet with the president.

According to the Beast and other outlets, a Tea Party activist named Ginni Thomas used her prominence in conservative circles to get Trump to flatter her, and to pitch him on potential hires for the White House and Trump administration.

Before lobbying a top White House official on ways to overturn the 2020 election, Thomas was known for dropping by the White House and whipping Trump into a frenzy by dishing out who she believed to be disloyal.

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A former senior-level Trump administration official told the Beast that the president would start yelling about firing people after he met with Ginni Thomas.

Thomas lists of who she thought Trump should fire from the administration were frequently based on pure speculation, rumor, or score-settling.

The suggested hires were said to be even more problematic.

The recommended hires on the Thomas list were friends of the couple, members of her right-wing network of activists and operatives at Groundswell, and people Thomas believed would be loyal to Trump.

The Daily Beast said that the lists also featured famous bigots and conspiracy theorists, woefully under-qualified names, and selections of names that caused aides to laugh at them.

Another official described the suck lists to the beast. Administration officials still had to do their homework.

The White House Presidential Personnel Office takes Thomas lists and marks them up with notes as to why someone couldn't be hired.

In one case, a note on one of Thomas' recommended hires suggested that one person could not be hired because they may have been a foreign spy.

A Trump White House official told Politico that Thomas was trying to play a role and have influence, but that she didn't hire many of the people on her list.

The craziest meeting I have ever been to was when Thomas and Frank Gaffney met at the White House.

After the 2020 election, Thomas exchanged text messages with the White House chief of staff, MarkMeadows, in which she discussed ways to overturn the election loss. The Washington Post and CBS reported on the messages obtained by the House Select Committee.

More than two dozen Democrats have called on Clarence Thomas to step down from the Supreme Court or at the very least, be removed from January 6 cases.

Insider reached out to Ginni Thomas.

The original article is on Business Insider.

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