Thread by @SethAbramson

(🔐) BREAKING at PROOF: The Coming Collapse of Donald Trump’s January 6 Conspiracy, Part 5: Ginni Thomas

I hope you will subscribe ($5/mo.), read, and RETWEET this massive exposé on Ginni Thomas. It's the longest January 6 article ever published by PROOF. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-the-comi…

1/ People have long wrongly assumed that I have a "murder board" to track the suspects in Trump scandals using push pins and string. While I don't and never have—I use my memory and research exclusively—if I *had* such a board for January 6, Ginni Thomas would be near the center.

2/ Most Americans—even politically savvy news-watchers—know little more about Ginni Thomas than that she is a) the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and b) a conspiracy theorist. Both of these things are true—yet don't even *begin* to encapsulate who Ginni Thomas is.

3/ The insurrectionist leadership cadre Trump attempted to exploit on January 6—at State, at the Pentagon, at DOJ, at the Department of Homeland Security, and yes, even at the top levels of the White House—was recruited and positioned by Ginni Thomas as much as any person in DC.

4/ While there comes a time in every conversation about Ginni Thomas at which one must address the implications of her conduct given her marriage to Justice Thomas, it's a disservice to her—and the January 6 investigation—to begin by calling her anything but a top Trump adviser.

5/ But anyone who *merely* calls Ginni Thomas a top Trump adviser clearly doesn't know much about her—as the chief role into which she's inserted herself in DC over the last decade is as the leader of an amateur far-right intelligence agency in the heart of the nation's capital.

6/ It seems anyone who's been at the heart of a Trump scandal has at some point been in contact with—or even partnered up with—Ginni Thomas. Michael Flynn, Erik Prince, Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon... the list goes on and on. Thomas may be the best-connected insurrectionist in DC.

7/ And... *and*... Ali Alexander.

8/ It's for this reason that it's so *regrettable* that Ginni Thomas's connection to a less important insurrectionist—Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA (she's an advisory board member at TPUSA)—became the focus of all conversation related to Thomas and the January 6 insurrection.

9/ For those—and there'll be some—who decide to comment on this article without reading it, know this: the article *debunks* the claim that Ginni Thomas chartered buses of insurrectionists on January 6 *in its first section*. This major exposé has *nothing* to do with that claim.

10/ By the same token, please do not think that this is merely an article arguing for Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving Donald Trump (though he should and must). This article is squarely focused on *Ginni Thomas*, with her husband only a tertiary figure here.

11/ And that's just how it should be, as Ginni Thomas has been a far-right powerbroker for decades—and is someone who had Oval Office-level access to Trump on issues that would become *national security–implicating* in the run-up to Insurrection Day in December 2020/January 2021.

12/ I believe this article makes an unimpeachable case for Congress to *immediately* subpoena Ginni Thomas and her close friend/professional associate Barbara Ledeen, the latter of whom has (Esquire says, not me) been a "ratfucker" of the highest order—Roger Stone-like—for years.

13/ (For those wondering, incredibly enough "ratfucker" is a sort of "technical" term in politics—as it *specifically* refers to engaging in illicit political dirty tricks relating to *elections*. Needless to say, that's exactly what's in play here, and what led to January 6.)

14/ Ginni Thomas has trended on Twitter *twice* in the last 10 days, and with good reason: perhaps no one in Trump's sphere has a) received *less* attention from Congress while b) deserving it more than Thomas. Unless it's her longtime confidant/fellow powerbroker Barbara Ledeen.

15/ Understand that Ginni Thomas believes the Right is at war—and not just metaphorically, as she's made allusions to violence in the past and indicated she thinks a Second Civil War is inevitable.

So in asking "What *wouldn't* she have done?" pre-January 6, keep that in mind.

PS/ As ever, I will try to answer questions/receive leads or recommendations in the comment section following the article if any PROOF subscribers have them. Part 4 of this ongoing series, on Chuck Grassley—very connected to this article—had 100+ comments. This may well get more.

NOTE/ I want to acknowledge something here that is already a topic of conversation among PROOF subscribers over at PROOF: *yes*, a Ginni Thomas subpoena would undoubtedly be among the most politically sensitive subpoenas ever issued in the United States, for the simple reason...

NOTE2/ ...that she'd likely challenge it in court either partially (like Jones) or fully (like Bannon and Meadows), which would presumably force Clarence Thomas to recuse himself over his wife's activities for the first time ever (if the case went to SCOTUS, as it likely would).

NOTE3/ The twists wouldn't end there: if, like Eastman and Clark and—before it's over—surely others Ginni Thomas were to assert her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, it'd arguably force Thomas to recuse from *every* case involving Trump or 1/6 *in perpetuity*.