Two months after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to help President Donald Trump stay in power, Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended a rally attended by with thunderous applause. that Trump was still the “legitimate president,” shows a video recording of the event. “There is a robbery happening in this country right now,” pastor and conservative radio personality CL Bryant told the crowd, according to a video posted on Facebook by a bystander. “In fact, I tell you and I will say it loud and clear, and I am not ashamed to say it. I will not bite my tongue. “I believe that Donald John Trump is the only legitimate president.” The event on March 6, 2021 was a Frontliners for Liberty meeting. The group went from obscurity to national attention last week with the revelation that Thomas had invited pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman to speak to its members in December 2020. The revelation, emailed from a judge that a judge had ordered Eastman to be handed over to the House committee investigating the January 6 uprising, showed that Thomas was in contact with Eastman, a key legal architect in the run-up to the election. Judge David O. Carter of Central California wrote in a June 7 opinion that the emails, including two in which the group’s “high-profile leader” invited Eastman to speak, were about the commission’s work. While text messages and emails uncovered in recent weeks indicate that Thomas was involved in these efforts before Jan. 6, her presence at the rally in Orlando shows that her alliance with the electorate continued even after the swearing-in. by Joe Biden. The Frontliners have hailed hardline lawmakers, insisted on strict secrecy, and declared the nation’s top enemy the “radical fascist left,” according to social media posts, court statements and interviews with many members of the group. A photo from the Orlando event shows Bryant posing with Thomas. Others show Thomas wearing a name tag adorned with a yellow ribbon she wore and others saying “Trouble Maker”. Thomas did not respond to requests for comment. Bryant also did not respond to a request for comment. Thomas’s role in the Frontliners was confirmed on Thursday when Eastman posted an email inviting him to speak to the team on December 8, 2020. The email was one of many that Eastman had sought to protect about the team, which was not recognized in court statements. Eastman argued that their release to the committee would violate participants’ First Amendment rights. The group said it was operating on what was understood to be a “cone of silence,” Eastman wrote in a May statement. He quoted an email he had received from the group saying: “We pay attention to who is on the phone and who is in the room and we do not leak what is happening, what is being said or who is in the meeting – never!”. Eastman downplayed the significance of the invitation on Thursday, saying Thomas had asked him to “give a briefing on election disputes to a group he met with periodically.” She wrote that she did not discuss with Thomas or her husband “any matter that is pending or is likely to come before the court”. The committee did not publish any Frontliners emails. She asked for an interview with Thomas and asked her to hand over communications to a number of people, including pro-Trump lawyers, members of Congress and Justice Department officials. said Thomas to the conservative Daily Caller last week he is looking forward to meeting with the committee and is “looking forward to clearing up the misunderstandings”. The revelations about Thomas’s activities have highlighted possible conflicts of interest her husband is facing to decide cases related to the 2020 elections and attempts to overturn them. Clarence Thomas has not dropped any of those cases – including one in January in which he was the only judge to uphold Trump’s request to block the release of White House documents on Jan. 6. A representative of the Supreme Court did not answer Clarence Thomas’s questions. Ginny Thomas said she keeps her job separate from that of her husband. Members described the Frontliners for Liberty as a loose coalition of conservative activists. The conservative FreedomWorks advocacy group provides significant institutional support, including informing team members and hosting “fly-ins” when members meet in person, according to former New Mexico MP Janice Arnold-Jones and a second person familiar with the Frontliners business he spoke to. on condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the group. FreedomWorks is “working with” the Frontliners, but the two are separate entities, FreedomWorks spokesman Peter Vicenzi wrote in an email to the Washington Post. “Ginny Thomas has been an invaluable ally of our activist community for years in terms of engaging in common issues,” Vicenzi wrote. “Thomas herself has been a consistent conservative activist and FreedomWorks is proud to work with her.” In her email invitation to Eastman, Thomas copied another recipient and said that this person – whose name had been deleted – was assisting with the meeting arrangements because “I am on leave until this election issue is resolved.” It is not clear how her role in sabbatical differed from what it was before. Arnold-Jones told The Post that Thomas was not the only team leader. “It’s more common than that,” she said in an interview. “It’s part of it. “Occasionally, we see Ginny.” Arnold-Jones said the team is strictly confidential, “so people can say what they want to say.” He said the group serves a critical networking function, connecting activists across all states with lawmakers and other decision-makers. But such details are discreetly shared, he said. “When the information is shared, they do not send a big old letter that says, ‘Here is their phone number.’ ” Frontliners for Liberty has no internet presence, except for a private Facebook group of about 50 people founded in August 2020 and run by Ginni Thomas and Stephanie Miller Coleman, the widow of one of Clarence Thomas’s former employees. Coleman did not respond to a request for comment. The Post saw the public description of the group on Facebook last week. It has since been removed from the public. The group was described as “a new co-operative, freedom-oriented, action-oriented group of state leaders representing grassroots armies to CONNECT, INFORM and ACTIVATE each other each week to maintain constitutional rule.” The banner at the top of the page read: “America’s enemy… is the radical fascist left.” Coleman’s Facebook page featured photos of her with Ginny and Clarence Thomas and other senior Washington figures, including Trump’s former White House general, Steven K. Bannon. In a 2015 photo, Coleman poses with Ginni Thomas, who wears a pin that says “I [heart] my husband “and a name tag identifying the event they attended as” Thomas Clerk World Retreat “. Former Clarence Thomas employees are contacting an email list known as Thomas Clerk World, The Post reported earlier. In the weeks following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Ginny Thomas apologized to those on the email list for a rift that developed between them after defending Trump and ratifying his Jan. 6 rally. Eastman is a former employee of Thomas. Since The Post saw Coleman’s photos last week, it has made most of its Facebook page private. Speaking at a rally in Orlando in March, Bryant said the nation was embroiled in a “spiritual war” and urged attendees to “stand up and defend this democracy.” He blamed the changing definitions of marriage, family and gender, and repeatedly reiterated that the presidency had been stolen. “It was a theft, I tell you. It was the biggest theft America has ever experienced. “However, we are sitting here with a person in the White House who is there fraudulently,” Bryant said. “My friends, do not be afraid to say it. “You should not be afraid to say it.” Encouraging the crowd to act, Bryant asked, “What are you ready to do?” He added: “I think Ginny asked that question. Will we leave here with rah rah, to continue our work? “When you leave here tonight, what are you ready to do?” It is not clear if he was referring to Ginny Thomas. Photos from the event show her speaking into a microphone in an outdoor gathering. The video was posted on the Facebook account of John Di Lemme, podcast presenter and founder of the Conservative Business Journal. Di Lemme told The Post that he was not related to the Frontliners, but listened to Bryant talk after he and his wife had lunch and dinner with a friend who attended the meeting. Attendees at the rally in Orlando included a wide range of FreedomWorks staff, from a base organizer who later pleaded guilty to illegal demonstrations in the Capitol during the Jan. 6 uprising to senior economist Stephen Moore, who was chosen by for a position. the US Federal Reserve Council, but withdrew from consideration following bipartisan criticism of its comments on women. Other in attendance included former state lawmakers, political candidates and conservative activists such as Ron Armstrong, a Michigan businessman who rose to the top nationalist protests against coronavirus restrictions, and Brian Kamen, President Mass. against LGBT. team from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Moore said he made remarks at many such events and could not remember details about …
