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GOP Insurrectionists Open Thread: Ginni Thomas, Text-Cheating on Her Husband with Mark Meadows

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No wonder the poor fella’s been hiding out… err, hospitalized… for the last week:


Jane Mayer warned us…

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    We need to come up with a name for Clarence’s illness. I’m thinking something like ginniburn, or ginni=itis, but I know you can come up with something better.
    Unfortunately, this will be old news in a day, because Bill talked to Loretta Lynch.

  2. 2.

    NotMax

    “You need to model yourself on the Nixon White House”

    ::cough:: Martha Mitchell ::cough::

    //

  3. 3.

    Wapiti

    In before “chief justice” Roberts says that his “supreme” court can resolve its ethics problems without Congress getting involved.

  6. 6.

    Anne Laurie

    @Baud: Hand to Murphy, I finished *this* post before Cole’s went up… but I wanted to give people a chance to enjoy TaMara’s excellent ‘Kindness’ post before pushing her off the top!

  8. 8.

    Steverino

    If Roberts cares so much about the legitimacy of the court it is time for him to have a conversation with Thomas.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Monica Crowley, who was six years old when Nixon resigned, reads this and thinks, “How old does crazy bitch think I am?” and runs to the bathroom to examine her crows’ feet.

  10. 10.

    debbie

    If he had any sort of conscience, he would have stopped his wife from embarking on her journey down Treasonous Lane. That he didn’t should result in his removal from the SC.

  12. 12.

    DCrefugee

    Ted Lieu: “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas cannot rule on a case that would disclose the crazy things Ginni Thomas was doing.”

    Actually, I think he can…

  14. 14.

    Anne Laurie

    @Scout211: Unfortunately, this is old news today because Trump is suing Hillary and the DNC for $72 million.Because . . . reasons

    Grifting.  The reasons are ‘grifting’. All the new GOP outrages have pushed TFG’s ugly mug off the Fox News front page, so he’s decided the ongoing opprobrium this bulls*t will attract is worth the risk of actually getting punished in court.

  17. 17.

    marcopolo

    My comment from the end of the last thread:

    See, it is shit like this that makes me doubt the existence of God cause if there were a god this story would have broken on Monday and some D senator would have been able to ask KBJ if she would recuse herself from a case before the court that potentially implicated her spouse in a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the US gov’t.

    Edited to add: Fuck, I entirely missed Cole’s thread.  Stuff is dropping fast and furious tonight.

  18. 18.

    gwangung

    It’ll totally sink beneath the waves. People accept Republican corruption as normal.

    And Dems have to be spotless and pure…

  19. 19.

    marcopolo

    @Scout211:  Will never make it beyond discovery.  For obvious reasons.  As everyone is noting, this is just to soak the rubes for a few more bucks.

  20. 20.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Scout211: ​
     

    Unfortunately, this is old news today because Trump is suing Hillary and the DNC for $72 million.Because . . . reasons

    The writers of this timeline have been smoking some serious shit.

  23. 23.

    Redshift

    @Anne Laurie:

    Grifting.  The reasons are ‘grifting’. 

    The quote that comes to mind is “Trump doesn’t lie to be believed, he lies to be repeated.” The old rants were getting stale, give the rubes something new and exciting to chatter about, and new enemies when it inevitably fails.

  24. 24.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    Trump has always been about draining the donors instead of the swamp.

  25. 25.

    Jeffro

    @marcopolo:Stuff is dropping fast and furious tonight.

    I just have a funny feeling it’s going to be one of those springs summers years where we find out all KINDS of shit…

  29. 29.

    Dangerman

    Good grief; another grave to piss on when she’s gone. At least she’ll probably be buried close to Clarence so it’ll cut down on the travel costs (balanced out by commensurate increase in funds for beer).

  31. 31.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @delk: from the Washington Post

    Meadows might not have been Thomas’s only contact inside the Trump White House that week. On Nov. 13, she texted Meadows about her outreach to “Jared,” potentially a reference to Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser. She wrote, “Just forwarded to yr gmail an email I sent Jared this am. Sidney Powell & improved coordination now will help the cavalry come and Fraud exposed and America saved.” The messages provided to the House select committee do not show a response by Meadows.
    Kushner did not respond to a request for comment.

    Potentially, but in fairness there were probably dozens of Jareds around the White House and the campaign

  34. 34.

    Hoodie

    Thomas knows that all of the other justices are going to let the Trump records be released- it’s not like it’s a secret ballot. So why the heck does he vote no? He’d have been better off recusing. You know that no one, not even crazy catholic lady, nasty Sam or the boofer is going to join you. It just makes it look like you suck at trying to cover for your wife because you can’t fucking count or you’re a complete loon. He’s as crazy as his crazy-ass wife.

  35. 35.

    Wapiti

    @Hoodie: He does this to signal his total disdain for the other so-called conservatives on the court. A bunch of squishes is what he thinks of them.

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Scout211:

    Even photo captions are royally pissing me off at this point. A little way down in the article you linked is a well-known photo of HRC with a cordless mic, TFG glowering behind her. The caption reads “Hillary Clinton speaks as Donald Trump looks on during the town hall presidential debate….”

    No, he wasn’t “look[ing] on.” He was following her all over the stage. He was harassing her. He was fucking STALKING her! We all saw it.

  37. 37.

    Urza

    @Hoodie: Maybe he was signaling to his co-conspirators on the court how they should vote, but they were all to stupid to understand.

  38. 38.

    scav

    Flat on his back in a hospital bed, and I can only hope his nurse tuned the TV to an all-news network and promptly lost the remote.

  39. 39.

    Martin

    So, this is why nobody has trust in government. We say that judges have adequate judgement to know when to recuse. Apparently not. Apparently judges need oversight like everyone else. Roberts could have pressured Thomas but either he didn’t, or it didn’t work. Neither is good.

    Here’s the problem. Thomas probably won’t step down, the Senate probably won’t remove him if the House impeaches. The only path we have now is 2 more justices to counter him.

  41. 41.

    Iron City

    @Dangerman: Close together may be more efficient from a travel point of view, but think of the crowd control measures needed.  Not to mention the significant drainage improvements needed to manage the runoff.

  43. 43.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Martin: The question then is whether or not Thomas voted to hear it but was overruled by the rest of the Court.

  45. 45.

    SFAW

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    No, he wasn’t “look[ing] on.” He was following her all over the stage. He was harassing her. He was fucking STALKING her! We all saw it.

    I still say she should have either

    (A) Turned around and kicked him in the groin*, or

    (B) Turned around and said to him “Back the fuck OFF, fuckhead, or I’ll do to you what people say I did to Vince Foster,” or

    (C) All of the above

    * NB: I considered writing “balls” instead of “groin,” but I’m not sure her aim would be precise enough.

  47. 47.

    bill

    anyone know where Clarence is getting his medical treatment ? I tend to think its in the Bahamas or on a big yacht with a team of private doctors and nurses until I am shown otherwise.

  49. 49.

    bill

    @scav:anyone  I tend to think he’s getting his medical Tx  in the Bahamas or on a big yacht with a team of private doctors and nurses until I am shown otherwise.

  50. 50.

    danielx

    @Anne Laurie:

    …so he’s decided the ongoing opprobrium this bulls*t will attract is worth the risk of actually getting punished in court.

    He doesn’t regard anything that’s happened to him in court before as a punishment, why start worrying now?

    Although the coincidence in timing is just a coinky-dink, no doubt. Also, the moon is made of extremely edible green cheese.

  51. 51.

    scav

    @bill: I’ve no inherent objection to his hearing his international reputation being trashed 24/7 while confined to a yacht-based hospital bed. He’ll probably eventually find himself in a hell of a queue when his attempts to disembark in a port without an extradition treaty.j

  52. 52.

    Felanius Kootea

    Don’t want to post this in the Ukraine thread, so here goes (WaPo):

    A federal jury on Thursday convicted Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) on three felony counts for lying to federal investigators about illegal campaign contributions from a foreign billionaire.

    During a 2016 fundraiser in Glendale, Calif., the congressman received a set of donations totaling $30,200 that came from Gilbert Chagoury, a wealthy Nigerian business executive of Lebanese descent who used other individuals as conduits to make the contributions, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a news release last October.

    “As a foreign national, Chagoury was prohibited from making donations and contributions directly or indirectly in support of any candidate for federal elected office in the United States,” according to Fortenberry’s indictment.

    It is also illegal to disguise a donor’s identity through third-party contributions.

    He apparently faces a maximum of five years for each charge and will be sentenced in June.

  55. 55.

    fancycwabs

    I’m still waiting for a single consequence for anyone* involved in January 6 who wasn’t literally inside the capitol.
    ________

    * Okay, one dude lost his twitter account, and now has to send out messages through a proxy.

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