Over and again, the panel confronted Thomas with her own words, including a text to Meadows a week after the election in which she suggested attorney Sidney Powell “will help the cavalry come and fraud exposed and America saved.” Powell was behind some of the most outrageous claims by Trump’s allies, including that foreign countries were hacking voting machines. “Anything I was doing was looking for fraud and irregularities in the election, not to overturn it.”
“I don’t have any memory of it,” Thomas told investigators. When the panel told her that Trump-aligned attorney Cleta Mitchell testified under oath that Thomas had asked her about potential fraud in Georgia’s elections, Thomas said she could not recall the conversation. Pressed by the investigators about her post-election efforts to challenge the election results, Thomas demurred. Thomas said throughout the interview that she still had concerns about election fraud, but offered little evidence. “It’s laughable for anyone who knows my husband to think I could influence his jurisprudence,” she said. She insisted she operated separately from her husband. Thomas said that while she was interested in pursuing claims of voter fraud, she had largely stepped aside during the aftermath of the election because she felt her presence as the wife of Justice Thomas often “chilled” the discussion.
