Emails show Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Arizona lawmakers to turn the election in favor of Trump

Of the 29 lawmakers, about 20 were noted to be members of the Arizona House and at least seven Arizona state Senators. At the time the emails were sent, the emailed individuals represent more than half of the Republican members of the state legislature.

According to The Post, Thomas sent the messages using FreeRoots, an online platform that allows for pre-written emails to be sent to multiple elected officials at once. It came days after Biden was announced to have won.

In it, Thomas urged lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and claimed it their responsibility to choose electors; “yours and yours alone,”  the email said.

In another email dated Dec. 13, Thomas emailed 22 House members and one senator. According to The Post, this email was sent a day before members of the electoral college were to cast their votes and seal Biden’s victory.

“Before you choose your state’s Electors … consider what will happen to the nation we all love if you don’t stand up and lead,” the email read. It linked to a video of a man urging swing-state lawmakers to “put things right” and “not give in to cowardice.”

While some lawmakers spoke to The Post and said Thomas’ emails had no impact on their decisions, the fact she even sent them is shocking. 

“That conflict of interest just screams at you,” Adam Schiff said on MSNBC about the emails. Schiff serves on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

He also noted Clarence Thomas’s decision not to excuse himself from the case when Trump went to the Supreme Court in an attempt to block the House committee from getting access to his White House records. While the high court declined to block the release of those documents, Clarence Thomas was the only judge to side with him.

“Here you have the wife of a Supreme Court justice,” Schiff said, trying to “get Arizona to improperly cast aside the votes of millions. And also, to add to it, her husband on the Supreme Court, writing a dissent in a case arguing against providing records to Congress that might have revealed some of these same emails.”

Ginni Thomas’s involvement in the “Stop the Steal” movement does not end in a history of sending emails. In March, several outlets also obtained text messages she sent to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in 2020. In those messages, Thomas not only spread false information but also urged Meadows to fight to keep Trump in office.

But of course, despite her attempts, Biden was certified as the winner in Arizona. We have yet to see how the Jan. 6 committee hearings will present these and any additional findings of Ginni Thomas’ role in Jan. 6.