WASHINGTON, DC – October 21: (LR) Deputy Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, could be forced to testify about her role in the January 6 uprising, according to Representative Liz Cheney, who is a member of the House of Representatives. vice chairman of the committee investigating the events surrounding the attack on the US Capitol.
In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, the Wyoming Republican said the committee is talking to Ginni Thomas’s attorneys and urging her to cooperate.
“We certainly hope that she will agree to voluntarily participate, but the committee is fully prepared to consider a subpoena if she doesn’t,” Cheney said. “I hope it doesn’t get to that point. I hope she joins voluntarily.”
“It was very important for us to talk to her,” Cheney said.
Thomas was one of many people the congressional committee sought information on as it investigated the events of January 6, 2021. Earlier this year, NBC News and other agencies. received a series of text messages that Thomas is said to have sent to former President Donald Trump, chief of staff Mark Meadows support the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Thomas is said to have encouraged Meadows to overthrow President Joe Biden’s election victory.
When news outlets predicted Biden as the winner of the November 10 election, Thomas wrote to Meadows: “Help this great President stand his ground, Mark!!! … You are the leader. religion, with him, who sided with America’s constitutional governance at the brink. Most know Biden and the Left are trying to pull off the greatest Heist case in our history.”
Cheney and the rest of the January 6 committee also tried to persuade others close to Trump or with access to the White House to come and testify about the events of that day – in some cases. , but failed.
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was found guilty on Friday of two counts of contempt of Congress after a federal trial in Washington, DC, after he refused to cooperate with the committee’s January 6 subpoena.
