Substitute while the actions of the article are loading
John Eastman, a lawyer who played a key role in efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to cancel the 2020 election, confirmed on Thursday that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had invited him to a meeting a month after the election. which she helps organize.
Eastman’s revelation came a day after The Washington Post reported that a House of Representatives committee investigating the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, had received an email correspondence between him and Virginia “Ginny” Ginny Thomas, a conservative activist and staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump. Investigators said the emails – which were not made public – showed that Thomas’ efforts to help cancel the election were more extensive than previously known, according to The Post.
On Thursday afternoon, during a hearing focused on outlining Eastman’s role in what the commission described as a scheme to steal the presidency, he published an online copy of an email he said Thomas sent him on December 4, 2020. The email shows Thomas inviting him to speak on December 8 to Frontliners, which she described as “a group of grassroots state leaders.”
In an accompanying statement published on Substack, the online newsletter site, Eastman sought to downplay the call, saying Thomas had asked him to “update the election disputes of a group he met periodically.” He wrote that he had not discussed with Thomas or her husband “any pending or possibly pending issues”.
Representative Benny G. Thompson (D-Miss.), Chairman of the House of Representatives committee, said Thursday that the committee had sent a letter asking Thomas for an interview. Thomas told the conservative Daily Caller that he looked forward to speaking with the committee and “can’t wait to clear up the misconceptions.”
The content of her invitation to Eastman on December 4 seems to coincide with the content of reports recently described by a federal judge as relevant to the commission’s investigation into efforts to cancel the 2020 election by pushing key states won by Joe Biden to certify a list of presidential voters who would vote for Trump.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter last week ordered Eastman to release more than 100 emails and other recordings, dismissing Eastman’s claims that these communications are privileged and should be protected. Among them were 10 documents related to meetings in December 2020 of a group that Eastman described as “conservative citizens who meet semi-regularly to communicate and discuss issues of public interest”. Two of these documents were emails inviting Eastman to speak at a meeting of the group on December 8, Carter writes. They were sent by the “high leader” of the group, he wrote.
Two other documents contained the meeting’s agenda, which showed that Eastman was not discussing election disputes, but “state legislative action that could turn the media around, called the Joe Biden election.” The fact that Eastman, a former Clarence Thomas employee, communicated with the judge’s wife about attempts to reverse the election result has raised questions about whether Clarence Thomas faces a conflict of interest in resolving the 2020 election case. trying to undermine it.
Neither Eastman nor Ginni Thomas responded to a request for comment. A Supreme Court spokeswoman did not answer questions about Clarence Thomas.
The other documents that Eastman was ordered to hand over contained an agenda for two more meetings of the group, the judge wrote. Carter wrote that the December 9 agenda included a section entitled “FRONT GAME AFTER NOVEMBER 4”, during which a sitting member of Congress discussed “[p]The agenda of December 16 included a section in which a Trump voter discussed “The Constitutional Consequences of the Electoral College Meeting and What’s Next.”
Carter said the documents should be released because they are of “substantial interest” to the House of Representatives committee, as the meetings “complemented a critical goal of the Jan. 6 plan: the disputed states to certify alternative electoral lists for President Trump.”
Add Comment