But when Ginny Thomas contacted Trump’s aides inside the Presidential Personnel Office, her demands were slow, former officials said. Fearing she might turn Trump against his criminal justice reform bill, which she vehemently opposed, they delayed asking her to sit down with Trump as the bill passed Congress. These details, which have not been mentioned before, are emblematic of the way in which Ginny Thomas tried to orbit Trump during his presidency. Sources said that Ginny Thomas used the existing connections with conservative personalities and sought intrusions with Trump executives, to make a repeated presence in his White House. He became part of a larger group of Republican activists who met at the White House on an almost monthly basis, though not with Trump, a source told CNN. Along the way, sources said, there was persistent annoyance for some of Trump’s aides who were in charge of managing her requests. Already strongly believing that “deep state” enemy forces had infiltrated the Trump administration, Ginny Thomas later adopted even more militant conspiracies to steal the 2020 election, raising a pile of moral red flags at her husband. has already decided on a case related to January 6 and is facing pressure to drop future cases. This momentum reached a new level last month when it was announced that Ginny Thomas sent a message to her longtime friend Mark Meadows after the 2020 election about the reversal of the results. The trajectory of Meadows’s career, from the supporter of the House to Trump’s last chief of staff, had given her a foothold in the White House. Their striking texts, received from a select parliamentary committee investigated on January 6, show how he applauded a coup attempt and held out hope that Democratic officials would be imprisoned at Guantanamo. Meadows declined to comment to CNN on the text messages. “Help this Great President stand firm, Mark !!!” Thomas sent a message to Meadows on November 10, 2020, three days after the announcement of the election in favor of President-elect Joe Biden. He went on to say, “the majority know Biden and the Left is attempting the biggest robbery in our history.”
This story is based on interviews with 14 sources familiar with Ginny Thomas, her relationship with the White House Trump and her relationship with Judge Thomas. They spoke on condition of anonymity so that they could honestly describe how it tried to get involved with the Trump administration and how its efforts culminated in an embrace of marginal electoral conspiracies. Ginny Thomas did not comment on this story. Ginny Thomas has denied that she or her husband ever acted improperly or that they exceeded moral standards. In an interview with Free Beacon published last month, he said, “Clarence does not discuss his work with me and I do not involve him in my work.” Regarding their marriage, a source close to the Thomases said, “By modern standards we accept the fact that two professionals who are married can have a separate and separate working life.” The source said that they do not deal with the daily life of the other’s career and stressed that Justice Thomas is not interested in politics and “does not like it over and over”.

Sources described Ginny Thomas as a “linker” who used her large rolodex to create networks of like-minded activists. He has been involved in a variety of conservative organizations, including the Groundswell Group, the National Policy Council, and the US Turning Point, and has had decades of relationships with leaders covering the Conservative movement.
But at times, her networking style meant she “got into other people’s business,” as one former Trump administration official put it. A source close to Ginny Thomas told CNN that her efforts at times led others – even those who shared her hard-line views – to question whether her actions were “prudent” or harmed the Conservative movement. A source said he was a “known figure” in the White House as a person who frequently interacted with officials throughout the White House, from top executives in the West Wing to public relations officials who often asked for her contributions to religious initiatives. “Nobody said ‘yes, we can ignore her calls.’ But on the other hand, we were not like, “Say it all, Ginny is on the line,” the source said. “I do not know I saw it so effective” She never explicitly referred to her husband in her dealings with the Trump administration, according to sources who spoke to CNN. But he is unlikely to have to rely on Judge Thomas’s role in the Supreme Court because everyone knew who he was. A former White House official said Trump liked Justice Thomas, which was a big reason he gave Ginni Thomas at any time of the day. Another former senior White House official said she had “name recognition” because of her husband and her relationship with conservative groups, which gave her a moderate level of influence with top officials. In an interview with the Washington Post this week, Trump said he spoke occasionally with Ginny Thomas while in power, but claimed he was unaware of her 2020 election campaign.
“Her husband is a great justice,” Trump said. “And she is a beautiful woman. And she loves our country.” There were also occasional social invitations for Thomas. They attended a White House state dinner in 2019 for the Australian Prime Minister. (Other Supreme Court justices have attended state dinners under the presidencies of both parties.) It was at the Amy Coney Barrett swearing-in ceremony in October 2020 that Judge Thomas was sworn in. In 2020, Trump appointed Genie Thomas to the Library of Congress Trust Board, which manages donations to the library and some of its financial investments. A library official confirmed to CNN that he still holds the position without pay and said the board meets only once a year. But there were limits to Ginny Thomas’s influence on Trump’s trajectory. A source said he did not have Trump’s personal cell phone number. He did not contact Trump on January 6, the source added.
However, he exchanged at least 29 text messages with Meadows between November 2020 and mid-January 2021 – a critical period in which Trump and Mendous pressured election administrators and Justice Department officials to block President-elect T Biden to take office. In some texts, he has embraced marginal conspiracies and hoped that top Democrats would be tried for insurgency.

Pushing for hiring and firing

He would regularly push Trump administration officials, even Trump himself, to hire its right-wing allies and contacts, according to many sources and previous press releases. A former Trump administration official told CNN that officials would comment on Thomas’s spreadsheet on the grounds that her candidates were inappropriate. Multiple sources who received such requests recalled that several candidates that Thomas tried to install in the administration had previously failed background checks or rejected lower-level positions that were eventually offered to them. One candidate “did not believe that women should serve in the military,” recalls a former official. Some of the other candidates posted inappropriate things on social media, an ironic twist, as Trump himself’s presence on social media was full of controversial material. “There is a good reason they were not hired,” said a former Trump administration official. Genie Thomas also encouraged the White House to fire certain government officials on suspicion of being part of the “deep state” against Trump. Axios had previously referred to Ginny Thomas’s efforts to hire and fire executives and to her team’s important role in ousting former Trump national security adviser HR McMaster in March 2018. She mentioned the proposed staff changes when she accompanied Justice Thomas at a private dinner with Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the White House in November 2018, according to several sources. The New York Times previously reported on the meal, but not on the issues discussed. Sources told CNN that during the dinner, Ginny Thomas told Trump that she knew about several candidates for administrative positions and Trump asked her to follow up with his staff. In the following weeks, Ginny Thomas tried to secure a next meeting with Trump. However, some White House aides were slow to respond because they feared it could undermine Trump’s criminal justice reform bill and because of concerns about its staff recommendations, people familiar with the matter told CNN. . Trump signed into law the first step on December 21, 2018. Weeks later, Ginny Thomas and members of Groundswell’s right-wing group – including a congressional staff member and an anti-trans activist – met with Trump in Roosevelt. White House Room. Ivanka Trump was also present at parts of the meeting, according to the New York Times. During the meeting, Thomas complained that hostile “deep state” officials inside the White House were blocking her nominees from finding employment in the administration. She directed some of her complaints directly to Trump aides in the room, accusing them of thwarting her efforts to install MAGA fans in agency positions and in the White House, according to two people present at the meeting.
He even gave Trump a list of proposed recruits during the meeting, a source told CNN. Top aides had informed Trump before his meeting with …