Dim bulb urges coup
So the thing is, the wife of a Supreme Court justice tried very hard to overturn the presidential election last year, which is…kind of criminal? Probably impossible to prosecute but not therefore legit? Criminalish?
The messages, which do not directly reference Justice Thomas or the Supreme Court, show for the first time how Ginni Thomas used her access to Trump’s inner circle to promote and seek to guide the president’s strategy to overturn the election results — and how receptive and grateful [Mark] Meadows said he was to receive her advice. Among Thomas’s stated goals in the messages was for lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted incendiary and unsupported claims about the election, to be “the lead and the face” of Trump’s legal team.
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Trump spoke publicly during this period about his intent to contest the election results in the Supreme Court. “This is a major fraud on our nation,” the president said in a speech at 2:30 the morning after the election. “We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court.”
But of course he was lying about that; there was no fraud. Trump on the other hand pursued the fraudulent claims that the election was stolen. It’s all very scuzzy.
In her text messages to Meadows, Ginni Thomas spread false theories, commented on cable news segments and advocated with urgency and fervor that the president and his team take action to reverse the outcome of the election. She urged that they take a hard line with Trump staffers and congressional Republicans who had resisted arguments that the election was stolen.
What “hard line”? Like, bullying, pressure, coercion? Threats? Punishment? What? What right does this person have to urge a White House official to coerce staff to overthrow an election?
It’s interesting how…commonplace, trashy, unintelligent it all is. She comes across as barely literate and shockingly credulous. Just another Fox News oversharer.
Could be guiltyish. More likely that than innocentish. But please understand that I’m not expertish on this stuff. It would all be quite funnyish if it was not so bloody seriousish.
Because it looks to me that American democracy is seriously on its way down the gurgler. Trumpism = fascism lite. 2024 will tell.
I ardently hope he drops dead first.
Agreed. I’m not a backer of direct assassination but damn, what is taking all that fast food so long to clog his arterles permanently?
Ms. Thomas (odd that this last name reflects two very odious persons in the news in recent weeks, coincidence?) appears to be one of those women who believe that the role of the powerful women is to the “power behind the throne” directing the events around her using her husband’s position.
At a bare minimum, Justice Thomas should recuse himself from anything having to do with the insurrection (but it’s too late for that).
The Justice is in the hospital with some sort of infection. Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery, after which he can contemplate the joys of retirement.