Ginni Thomas to speak with Jan. 6 committee, claims 'misconceptions' about her role in 2020 election

Ginni Thomas to speak with Jan. 6 committee, claims 'misconceptions' about her role in 2020 election
KATHERINE FAULDERS
Wed, September 21, 2022 at 6:17 PM



Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has agreed to voluntarily speak with the House Jan. 6 committee, according to her lawyer.

"I can confirm that Ginni Thomas has agreed to participate in a voluntary interview with the Committee," her attorney Mark Paoletta said in a statement on Wednesday. "As she has said from the outset, Mrs. Thomas is eager to answer the Committee's questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election. She looks forward to that opportunity."

CNN was first to report the news.

Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters in June that the committee would "soon" invite Ginni Thomas to speak with the panel.

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"We think it's time that we would, at some point, invite her to come talk to the committee," Thompson said then, in the wake of revelations about emails that sources said she exchanged with right-wing lawyer John Eastman, a former clerk to Justice Thomas.

The committee is in possession of text messages between Ginni Thomas and President Donald Trump's last chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in addition to the messages between her and Eastman. Emails have also been revealed of her communicating with officials in various states about efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.


PHOTO: Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, moderates a panel discussion in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 23, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE)
The committee sent a letter to her requesting an interview in June.

Later that month, Thompson said a dialogue with Ginni Thomas was ongoing: "It's our expectation that we will keep talking and trying to get her to come in."

The committee has said Eastman was the mastermind behind the legal scheme to fraudulently overturn the 2020 presidential election, in part by pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject some states' legitimate electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress met to certify the election results.

Ginni Thomas told The Daily Caller in June, "I can't wait to clear up misconceptions. I look forward to talking to them [the committee]."

And Eastman wrote in a June blog post, defending himself: "At no time did I discuss with Mrs. Thomas or Justice Thomas any matters pending or likely to come before the Court."

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/ginni-thomas-speak-jan-6-001700970.html

 

And chances are, we'll never know what she testifies to.

 

J6 committee wins — will get phone records of Arizona GOP boss who was a fake elector: report

Jim Small, Arizona Mirror
September 22, 2022



Arizona GOP Chair Kelly Ward / Gage Skidmore.


The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has the right to see phone records for Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

The subpoena from the House Select Committee on January 6th sought phone records from T-Mobile between Nov. 1, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2021, for four phone numbers associated with the Wards and Michael Ward’s business, Mole Medical Services. Both Wards were among the Arizona Republicans who were fake electors and signed a bogus document claiming that Donald Trump won the state in the 2020 election.

The Wards filed a lawsuit in February challenging a subpoena for the phone records, arguing that it was “overbroad,” the Wards said, because it is “unrelated to the enabling resolution of the issuing Committee” and doesn’t make a clear connection between the records and potential legislation.

They also argued that the subpoena violated the First Amendment rights of both themselves and the state GOP, and they claimed that the subpoena was illegal because the committee was in violation of House rules. And the Wards, who are both physicians, told the court that turning over the phone records would violate Arizona’s law protecting patient-physician privilege and HIPAA, the federal law governing privacy of medical information.

Federal Judge Diane Humetewa on Thursday rejected all of those arguments. She wrote in an 18-page ruling that the committee’s work has a valid purpose and is not illegal — thus barring a lawsuit against the federal government.

“That three-month period is plainly relevant to its investigation into the causes of the January 6th attack,” she wrote. “The Court therefore has little doubt concluding these records may aid the Select Committee’s valid legislative purpose.”

Humetewa also noted that the federal courts have no oversight role regarding the rules of the U.S. House of Representatives, dismissing the argument from the Wards that the committee has fewer members than the authorizing resolution required.

The judge also flatly rejected the claim that the records would ensnare anyone who called or texted Kelli Ward would “become implicated in the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history” and be subjected to harassment or political persecution by Democrats, in violation of their First Amendment rights.

Humetewa said the argument was “highly speculative” and the Wards “provided no evidence to support their contention that producing the phone numbers associated with this account will chill the associational rights of Plaintiffs or the Arizona GOP.” They also provided no more than “conclusory allegations” that complying with the subpoena would lead to harassment of themselves or anyone else.

The judge also dismissed the claims that state and federal medical privacy laws would be breached if the phone records are turned over. Even if the state law applied — and Humetewa said it doesn’t — its authority overridden by Congress’ constitutional authority to conduct investigations that could lead to legislation. She also said the Wards’ claims that a phone number would expose confidential information was “implausible.”

And Humetewa said the Wards cited no case law to support their argument that the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, protects their phone records. Further, she said the subpoena was issued to T-Mobile, not the Wards, and the mobile phone company is not bound by HIPAA.

Arizona Mirror is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Arizona Mirror maintains editorial independence.

https://www.rawstory.com/kelli-ward-2658327002/

 

Now the committee might leak some of what Kelly Ward might testify to.

If, you know, it fits the Nancy Antoinette star chamber January 6 narrative.
Or it can be edited to seem to fit.

Otherwise it will go into the TOP SECRET archives maintained in Nancy Antoinette's star chamber vault.
Never to be seen by anyone alive today.

 

It's a little strange that some people called by the Jan6 committee think they can't speak in public about their testimony. Why would information that can be exposed to the public by giving an interview on Fox be classified TOP SECRET? All caps is double secret. It seems ominous, but sounds pretty fucking stupid when you say it out loud.

Thomas could plead the 5th, or as it's known in MAGA circles, "the 45th". After all, she might want to save something for after she's indicted. That sounds like a strange legal strategy, but the best lawyers money can buy, used it just the other day.

In other good news, one of your worries will soon be put to rest. The Special Master is going to give Trump's legal team the opportunity to declare what documents were declassified, and even better, reveal what items the FBI seized from Mar Lago, but didn't appear on the inventory.

Looks like the FBI will finally have to fess up and this Mar Lago thing will fade away. After that, Trump's only worry will be Joe Biden thinking about reclassifying the documents Trump stole from the government and it all starts over again.

 

So Shooter has looked for transcripts of testimony before Nancy Antoinette's star chamber, you know, other than the 8 public(ity) hearings they have held.
In particular, he would like to see Tony Ornato and Bobby Engel's testimony before the committee in January and March 2021. You know, before Cassidy Hutchison's June "surprise" public testimony about the now infamous "Trump lunge".

You won't find them.
Their testimony, and even the fact they would be testifying, are sealed records. Like all the testimony and schedules from all the closed hearings held by the committee.

Of course, that didn't stop committee "sources" from alleging that their testimony was not considered particularly credible, without, you know, providing any details.

 

You've never been happy when the details are revealed, so it's probably better this way. It means you can continue to make vague passive aggressive comments, but never address the issue or, God forbid, answer a question.

I'm sure you agree that Trump finally getting his day in court to explain this lost library book thing is good news. No more "unnamed sources" or "person close to the whatever". It's going to be real genuine Trump putting the record straight, under oath. The truth and the whole truth about declassification and all the stuff the FBI pilfered from Mar Lago. That will certainly put Garland in his place.

After that, there just won't be much to talk about.

 

Well, that would be a lie. Shooter has always wanted the details and the facts. Not from "sources familiar with the situation" which seems to be the liberal go to source, but the real facts. No matter who the facts skewer or support.

You know, like the testimony of the Secret Service agents before Hutchison testified. Shooter would like to see what they had to say about driving Trump back to the White house. Wonder why the committee hasn't released that testimony. Aren't you curious to know? Wouldn't you like to know what the real story is about Trump's lunge? Or is second hand hearsay good enough for you to convict Trump of .................. something?

The rest of your sarcasm and spin is ignored. If you are spewing this because of something Shooter said triggering you, Shooter apologizes.

You have a nice day, K?

 

I didn't say you don't want details. I said you don't like them. That's the lot of a Trump supporter these days. They start off with the basic lie of the day, and are happy to repeat it in one variation or the other. But inevitably, the story starts to unwrap and collapse at the same time, and then there's all these people asking, "Remember when you said such and such?"

From the outside, it looks painful, but I suppose some kind of numbness must set in after a while.

However, it's not all doom and gloom. We should get a big plate of real facts just as soon as Trump explains all about declassifying documents and stuff not on the inventory to the Special Master. No liberal sources allowed, just 100% Trump facts, straight from the Trump himself.

 

And you've already been proven wrong that conservatives do not engage in anonymous sources.

 

First, genius, Shooter has never said conservatives do not engage in anonymous sources.
Second, genius, since Shooter never said that you never proved him wrong. Ever.

You have a nice weekend.

 

So, then you're admitting to your hypocrisy... It is cathartic!

 

This sounds very interesting.

Roger Stone's links to Jan. 6 revealed after panel IDs his phone number in 'Manhattan Madam' call logs: new book

Travis Gettys
September 26, 2022



Roger Stone (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds for AFP)


The House select committee mapped out a detailed overview of Roger Stone's contacts after identifying his phone number.

The longtime Republican political operative refused to turn over his contacts to the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, but panel members worked backwards through his associates and were able to identify his number after obtaining the call records of "Manhattan Madam" Kristin Davis, according to excerpts from a new book published by The Guardian.

Davis, who went to prison for running a high-end prostitution ring and dealing drugs in the 2000s, was with Stone at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, and had previously lived with Stone, who had previously managed her ill-fated campaign for New York governor in 2010.

After identifying his number, investigators learned that Stone had called Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio before and after Jan. 6, and he called Oath Keepers chief Stewart Rhodes nine days after the U.S. Capitol attack.

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Both Tarrio and Rhodes have been charged with seditious conspiracy for allegedly planning the attack.

Calls from Stone's number were also made to a number of Republicans involved in the scheme to overturn the 2020 election results, including Texas attorney general Ken Paxton and Arthur Schwartz, an aide to Donald Trump Jr.



https://www.rawstory.com/roger-stone-jan-6-2658341623/

 

He probably solicits votes from the religious right.

Once I read about a Republican politician who cultivated the religious right, and who used a credit card at a whore house. His Democrat rival for election was trying to figure out how to make maximum use of that while appearing to feel embarrassment and regret.

He could have said something like, "My campaign aides are telling me to exploit the fact that my honorable opponent paid for his services from a prostitute with a credit card. I tell them that nothing could be gained by this. His wife and children have suffered enough. I intend to restrict my campaign to the issues."

 

Mark this spot.

So Schiff, one of our less favorite power rangers, said on Sunday that IF the Nancy Antoinette star chamber is going to refer Trump for criminal charges, it should be a unanimous vote.

So Shooter has a prediction; the committee has determined that it will release its blockbuster report just before midterm elections, most likely within the next 4 weeks. You know, leaving enough time for despicables to make their condemnation speeches and what not, but not nearly enough time to see will there be actual charges or decipher the evidence they've found. Much less anything that would mitigate chargs.

And the recommendation will be unanimous. As if that means much when, you know, Nancy Antoinette hand picked the members and has controlled the agenda.

 

Jan. 6 panel scrambles to crunch ‘avalanche’ of evidence
by Mike Lillis and Rebecca Beitsch - 09/27/22 6:00 AM ET

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In the last legs of their sprawling probe, investigators on the Jan. 6 committee are facing an enormous challenge: How to crunch a massive amount of evidence surrounding last year’s Capitol attack into a narrative that resonates with large segments of the voting public.

The House select committee has spent the last 15 months digging through tens of thousands of documents, interviewing more than 1,000 witnesses and staging eight public hearings aimed at convincing both Congress and the country that former President Trump had used the powers of the office to orchestrate nothing less than an attempted coup.


As they head into Wednesday’s hearing on Capitol Hill — what could be the last investigative forum before the committee dissolves — the panel’s lawmakers are quick to acknowledge the difficulty in wrapping up their work in a manner that’s compelling, convincing and easy to digest.

“There’s such a huge avalanche of information that it becomes difficult towards the end to decide what we’re going to use in a particular context,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).

Created in June of last year, the bipartisan select committee was given broad powers to tackle the mammoth task of uncovering the causes and actors behind the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. In the months since, investigators have presented a damning account of a volatile president who refused to accept his election defeat; summoned supporters to Washington in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying the results; and sat silently while a violent mob stormed into the Capitol in a failed attempt to do just that.

The select committee will disband at the end of the year. And with the House expected to flip to GOP control in November’s midterms, Congress’s formal investigation into Trump’s role in the rampage is certain to end. Before then, the panel is racing to craft a final report, likely to be issued following the elections, and may issue a preliminary report that could arrive before November. The sheer volume of evidence is affecting the timeline.

“It is a huge amount of information. We’re working hard to put it together,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), another member of the select committee, said Sunday night in an appearance on CNN, where she acknowledged the limitations of the public outreach campaign.

“Hearings have some constraints,” she said. “You can’t deliver that much information in a two-hour period.”


Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Wednesday’s hearing would not be as focused on one prong of Trump’s plan as prior hearings have been.

“I think it’ll be potentially more sweeping than some of the other hearings. But it too will be … very thematic. It will tell the story about a key element of Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the election. And the public will certainly learn things it hasn’t seen before, but it will also understand information it already has in a different context by seeing how it relates to other elements of this plot,” Schiff said Sunday during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The Jan. 6 panel is working to tie up its marathon probe just as Democrats are increasingly fighting to make the midterm elections a referendum on Trump’s false claims of a “stolen” election and the threat to democracy Trump’s critics say he poses. Recent public surveys show that the issue has resonance, but doesn’t poll nearly as high as inflation and other economic measures.


Lofgren said one strategy for reaching a more diverse audience has been to schedule Wednesday’s hearing midday, instead of in the evening when it would compete with more popular programs.

“It’s true, it’s not in prime-time. I would note, however, that in the past Fox News does play our hearings if the hearing is in the daytime,” she said. “That’s a factor in reaching an audience that is not watching CNN.”

Complicating the panel’s task, investigators are seeking to make their case without having spoken to two eyewitnesses at the center of the Jan. 6 attack: Trump, who had encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol, and Mike Pence, the former vice president whose unwillingness to help overturn Trump’s defeat made him a top target of the mob.


Lofgren said Sunday that Pence, after initially expressing some interest in testifying, has since “walked it back.” The committee has subpoena power — and has used it repeatedly in the course of the investigation — but there’s simply no time left to pursue that avenue when it comes to Trump and Pence, Lofgren added.

“That litigation could not be concluded during the life of this Congress,” Lofgren told CNN. “So while we’d like to hear from both of them, I’m not expecting that we necessarily will.”

Another wild card for the committee is former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.), who served as an adviser to the panel up until April.

Riggleman has a new book, and his promotional tour has rolled out just days before the panel’s scheduled hearing, disclosing that his team uncovered a phone call between the White House and a man later arrested after entering the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Members have dismissed the value of that detail, noting that they uncovered more evidence in the many months following Riggleman’s departure.

“He does not know what happened after April, and a lot has happened in our investigation. I will say this, that everything that he was able to relay or to discern prior to his departure has been followed up on and in some cases didn’t really [pan] out,” Lofgren said.

Yet another factor complicating the panel’s effort to bring the investigation to its inevitable end is the simple fact that the committee has continued to receive new information, and even new witness testimony, more than a year after the probe was launched.


Indeed, investigators are expecting this month to sit down with Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to learn more about her efforts to keep Trump in office even after his defeat. As part of that campaign, Virginia Thomas had communicated directly with Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, and John Eastman, a conservative law professor who devised the legal rationale behind Trump’s bid to stay in power.

Lofgren declined to say when Thomas would testify, but said it would happen “quite soon.”


“We want to make clear. … we’re interviewing her because of her own activities,” Lofgren said. “It’s not because of whose wife she is.”



https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3662030-jan-6-panel-scrambles-to-crunch-avalanche-of-evidence/

 

Well lets split hairs then. No, Cheney never came out and said "I will run as a despicable when I run for president" but she has said that she's willing to campaign for despicables, will not under any circumstance support Trump, and would even leave the deplorable party should Trump be the deplorable candidate.
Sounds like a despicable to Shooter.

But no matter. Liz is about to find out about despicable loyalty.

Liz Cheney hints she may run for president after crushing primary loss (msn.com)

"It is something that I am thinking about and I’ll make a decision in the coming months,” she said after declaring: “I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.”

Almost immediately after the TV spot concluded a political appeal for donations hit this reporter’s inbox with the title “Liz Cheney needs you…” It was sent by the National Democratic Training Committee looking for “EMERGENCY Democratic support” for the Republican who took on former President Donald Trump and paid dearly for it last night.

Related video: Liz Cheney Says She May Leave the GOP if Trump Is the Nominee​

 

Shooter has highlighted the Kool Aid for you.

"that idiot republican leader, had a chance to put people on the committee but wanted insurrectionists on it, and when he couldn't have that, he lied, and whined and took his ball and fled off home lol so yes mark my HONEST take on it they will see all the shit that trump is in and will vote to refer that lying fat snake for charges lol he will likely get away with it but not unscathed and the repubs will NOT be able to save his fat ass from all the shit he caused and is in"
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You also assume a fact not in evidence, mainly that "repubs" will want to save Trump's "fat ass".

Remember, 30 31 32 33 34 35 State and Federal Investigations.
Over 7 years of dedicated effort.
Trump still walks free, unindicted, no perp walk, no convictions.

Ask yourself if its because trump is so innocent, or his prosecutors are so incompetent?
No need to tell us your answer, we already know the answer is "YES"

 

Jan. 6 hearing put on hold as hurricane bares down on Florida

Sarah K. Burris
September 27, 2022



Bennie Thompson, Chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, speaks alongside Rep. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America/TNS


WASHINGTON — Hurricane Ian is set to make landfall on Wednesday afternoon, which was around the time that the House Select Committee was supposed to be holding, what was thought to be, their final public hearing.

Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) is a Jan. 6 committee member who wants to be monitoring the storm and be on hand to help residents of her district.

By Tuesday, hurricane forecasts became clearer that the strength would be much more than expected. It is now expected to hit the west coast of Florida, dead on, and will reach a Category 4. It's the first time that a hurricane of this strength has hit the area in 90 years, MSNBC reported.

"In light of Hurricane Ian bearing down on parts of Florida, we have decided to postpone tomorrow’s proceedings. We’re praying for the safety of all those in the storm’s path. The Select Committee will soon announce a date for the postponed proceedings," the committee said in the statement.

At the same time, the House and Senate are working to craft a budget. The plan will likely result in another continuing resolution so that Republicans can change the budget if they take over after the November election.

https://www.rawstory.com/january-6-hearing-delayed/

 

Arizona GOP chair repeatedly invoked Fifth Amendment in Jan. 6 deposition: report

Travis Gettys
October 04, 2022



Gage Skidmore.


The Arizona Republican Party chair pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions from the Jan. 6 committee.

Kelli Ward, the top-ranking GOP official in the key swing state, invoked her constitutional right against self-incrimination during an interview with the House select committee, which she is trying to block from obtaining her phone records from the period between the 2020 election and Joe Biden's inauguration, reported Politico.

“Dr. Ward was deposed by the select committee, and she declined to answer on every substantive question and asserted her rights under the Fifth Amendment,” said Eric Columbus, an attorney for the select committee.

It's not clear when she sat for her deposition, but Columbus revealed her assertions in a hearing before Arizona-based U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa related to her lawsuit seeking to block T-Mobile from turning over her phone records.

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Humetewa recently rejected Ward's effort, but she has asked the judge for a delay while she seeks a review of her case by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.


Ward has complained that, as a medical doctor, her phone records could identify patients she's treating and possibly harm Republican activists she had been contacting, but Columbus argued that the select committee was only interested in the logs of incoming and outgoing calls to determine when relevant contacts took place.

“There is nothing unique about Dr. Ward here,” Columbus said, but noting that it was an "investigation of a very political event, an attempt to overthrow and subvert an election.”

Ward was among 10 pro-Trump electors from Arizona and also joined a December 2020 lawsuit pressuring vice president Mike Pence to seat them instead of Biden electors.



https://www.rawstory.com/kelli-ward-jan-6-2658385552/