During a rally on Saturday night, former President Donald Trump said Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, had “courage and strength” after testifying before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Do you know Ginni Thomas?” Trump asked his supporters in the crowd. “She didn’t say, ‘Oh, well, I’d like not to get involved. Of course, it was a wonderful election.’ It was a rigged and stolen election. She didn’t wait and sit around and say, ‘Well, let me give you maybe a different answer than [what] I’ve been saying for the last two years.’”
Thomas spoke with investigators during a closed-door meeting four and a half hour meeting on Thursday. During the meeting, she talked about her marriage to the judge and added that she never spoke with him about her campaign activities, according to a report from CNN that discussed her opening statements.
Thomas was present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters attempted to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
On the day of the riots, Thomas exchanged text messages with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The content of the texts revolved around claims of election fraud and questioned her possible influence over her husband in his role.
Mark Paoletta, Thomas’ attorney, shared after the testimony that she had “significant concerns about fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election. And, as she told the committee, her minimal and mainstream activity focused on ensuring that reports of fraud and irregularities were investigated.”
Trump spoke at his Michigan rally alleging that Thomas told the House panel she had not changed her mind and that she “still believes the 2020 election was stolen.”
The former president praised Thomas for her continued belief in the election being stolen, saying that she stood by what she had said the last two years.
“She didn’t wilt under pressure like so many others that are weak people and stupid people… She said what she thought, she said what she believed in,” Trump said.
Trump said that Thomas was a “great woman” and compared her to those who testified before the committee that went against his claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
The committee chairman, Rep. Benni Thompson (D-Miss.), shared that she did stand by her claims of the election being stolen but noted that “at this point we are glad she came in.”
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