I don’t know why I didn’t know this before – or perhaps I did, but it just didn’t click in and make the connection – but the other day I heard that Trump’s insurrection lawyer John Eastman had been a Supreme Court clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.
It would seem to me that a clerk for Justice Thomas would know the Justice’s wife. Probably quite well. Which would mean that John Eastman knew Ginni Thomas. And it strikes me as not remotely unreasonably that, the two would cross paths and talk on occasion. I don’t know if this is the case. I don’t know that they’ve ever spoken. I do know that it’s not unreasonable to think that they did know each other and do occasionally speak – especially with Eastman being in the White House. And especially given how far-right obsessed Ginni Thomas is with thinking the election was supposedly “stolen” from Trump. In fact, not only is not unreasonable to think they spoke in the days after the election, leading up to the insurrection and beyond, I would suggest with seditionist Ginni Thomas knowing her husband’s former clerk was working with Trump in the White House, it’s unlikely that they didn’t. Did they discuss White House plans to undermine the elections? Did they discuss her efforts to overturn the results? Did Clarence Thomas know about any of this? I have no idea. Those are just questions. And it’s not fair to draw conclusions based only on questions. But they’re really good questions. And while I'm pondering things, a bonus ponder: For all the legal questioning if Trump actually believed the election was stolen (which could conceivably let him off the hook for inciting the insurrection) or knew that it wasn't stolen (which would then show a "corrupt mind"), I would suggest that Trump calling the Secretary of State for Georgia and pushing him bizarrely to find exactly 11,780 votes, precisely just one more than needed to win the state, shows Trump knew full-well he didn't win and therefore not only had a "corrupt mind," but one so corrupt that it's dripping all over the carpet.
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