The text messages Ginni Thomas sent Trump's chief of staff pushing false claims about the 2020 election are part of a larger history. Here's a closer look at her controversial conservative activism.
"A lot of people know me because of my husband who's on the Supreme Court, but the truth is I'm my mother's daughter," Thomas said in a political endorsement video for Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential run, explaining that her mother was once a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
NPR has independently confirmed the text messages and their contents with sources familiar with the House select committee's discussions but not authorized to speak on the record. In the 1980s she met her future husband, who was then the chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.She jumped into her husband's work
Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas is flanked by his wife Ginni during his confirmation hearings in 1991. Ginni Thomas requested law professor Anita Hill apologize for filing sexual harassment charges against her husband.She has made her link to her husband known, once interviewing him for the Daily Caller.
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