CBS News and The Washington Post have obtained copies of numerous text messages exchanged between Thomas and Trump’s White House chief of staff.
Highlights
- Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to pursue efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
- Among Thomas’ stated goals in the messages was for lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted incendiary and unsupported claims about the election, to become “the lead and the face” of Trump’s legal team.
- The messages were among the 2,320 text messages Meadows provided to a House select committee investigating the Jan.
- 6 attack on the U.S.
- Capitol.
- The existence of messages between Thomas and Meadows have not previously been reported and were reviewed by CBS News and The Washington Post.