The wife of a US Supreme Court judge has been found to have sent text messages to the White House imploring them to overturn Donald Trump's election loss.
Virginia 'Ginni' Thomas, whose husband is Justice Clarence Thomas, sent weeks of text messages pushing to have the 2020 result altered after Joe Biden was elected President.
It came as Trump threatened to take his fight to have the vote overturned to the Supreme Court as he baselessly claimed it had been “stolen” from him.
As news outlets projected he would lose the White House on the night of the election in November 2020, Mrs Thomas began texting White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
“Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!” she wrote.
“You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.”
Days later, Meadows reportedly texted Mrs Thomas: “This is a fight of good versus evil ... Evil always looks like the victor until the King of Kings triumphs.
"Do not grow weary in well doing. The fight continues. I have staked my career on it. Well at least my time in DC on it.”
Mrs Thomas replied: “Thank you!! Needed that! This plus a conversation with my best friend just now… I will try to keep holding on. America is worth it.”
It is unclear to whom she was referring.
However, Mrs Thomas had texted Meadows she wanted Sidney Powell - the pro-Trump lawyer who had filed failed lawsuits challenging the 2020 results and was later sanctioned by a federal judge - to be “the lead and the face” of Trump’s legal team.
Copies of the texts - 21 sent by her, eight sent in reply by Meadows - were provided to the House select committee investigating the deadly insurrection that saw a mob of Trump supporters overrun the US Capitol on January 6 last year.
In February 2021, when the Supreme Court rejected election challenges filed by Trump and his allies, Justice Thomas, 73, wrote in a dissent that it was “baffling” and “inexplicable” that the majority had decided against hearing the cases because he believed the
Supreme Court should provide states with guidance for future elections.
Mrs Thomas’s closeness to Trump’s inner circle has raised questions about relations between the White House and the judiciary among many Americans.
