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- Ginni Thomas apologized to the staff of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for her support of the January 6 rally that turned into a deadly riot at the Capitol.
- It’s a rare heel-turn for the right-wing conspiracy theorist and stalwart Trump supporter.
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Ginni Thomas, the prominent far-right conspiracy theorist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, apologized to her husband’s clerks for her role in supporting the January 6 rally that turned into the deadly riot at the Capitol building.
«I owe you all an apology. I have likely imposed on you my lifetime passions,» she said in an email obtained by The Washington Post.
The email was sent to a listserv called Thomas Clerk World, which includes her husband’s former court staff from his three decades on the court, according to the Washington Post.
Ginni Thomas – whose full name is Virginia – had posted on Facebook her support for the «Stop the Steal» rally held in Washington, DC, on January 6 that morphed into the insurrection that left five people dead.
«My passions and beliefs are likely shared with the bulk of you, but certainly not all. And sometimes the smallest matters can divide loved ones for too long,» Thomas said in the email obtained by The Washington Post. «Let’s pledge to not let politics divide THIS family, and learn to speak more gently and knowingly across the divide.»
Ginni Thomas has been a stalwart supporter of former President Donald Trump, often posting misspelled messages and memes about him on her Facebook page alongside conspiracy theories about the liberal financier and Holocaust survivor George Soros controlling the Democratic party, Barack Obama rigging the 2016 election, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller inventing dirt about Trump. She’s also maintained ties to right-wing, Trump-allied political organizations, including the Daily Caller Foundation and Turning Point USA.
On the morning of January 6, Thomas made a Facebook post saying «GOT BLESS EACH OF YOU FOR STANDING UP or PRAYING» with a link to a livestream of the rally, where Trump spoke. She later updated the post to add: «Note: written before the violence in the US Capitol.»
Thomas’s Facebook page was taken down on January 8.
—Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) January 8, 2021
After the Capitol riot, a conspiracy theory circulated that Thomas personally funded 80 buses to transport insurrectionists to Washington, DC, but fact-checks found that claim to be false.
More than 200 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far, with federal prosecutors filing new charges every day. Trump’s relentless push about the conspiracy theory that he actually won the 2020 presidential election against now-President Joe Biden has led to impeachment charges against him in Congress.
Thomas said in the email that she was disappointed by Trump’s defeat.
«Many of us are hurting, after leaving it all on the field, to preserve the best of this country,» she wrote.
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