Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, offered a prosecutorial analysis after a stunning new report that Ginni Thomas —the wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas— mounted a relentless effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election in order to keep Donald Trump in power.
Citing newly discovered emails, The Washington Post reported Mrs. Thomas pressed Arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside Joe Biden’s popular-vote victory and choose “a clean slate of Electors” that would declare Trump president. The emails, sent by Ginni Thomas to a pair of lawmakers on Nov. 9, 2020, argued that legislators needed to intervene because “the vote had been marred by fraud,” The Post reported.
Schiff, a former federal prosecutor and a member of the House Select Committee Investigating the January 6 insurrection, reacted to the report during an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
“There are several stunning things to me about what is publicly known and has been revealed about Ginni Thomas. Here, she is weighing in with state legislators in Arizona, seeking to get them to essentially send a bogus slate of electors, that didn’t represent who won the popular election in Arizona,” Schiff told Wallace.
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The California Democrat referenced legal proceedings over the subpoena of “coup memo” author John Eastman.
“And you know, the judge in California, Judge Carter and the case involving Eastman, this lawyer, describes what the former president was involved in as a criminal conspiracy,” he charged. “That was a conspiracy to interfere with the joint session, to defraud people, and here you have the wife of a Supreme Court justice engaged in a parallel effort to get Arizona to improperly cast aside the votes of millions,” Schiff argued.
“And also to add to it, her husband, on the Supreme Court, writing a dissent in a case, arguing providing records to Congress that might have revealed those same emails.”
“That conflict of interest just screams at you,” Schiff said.
Watch the segment below from MSNBC:
