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The View" reveals Ginni Thomas ID'd "deep state" staffers she wanted Trump to fire
Joy Saha - Yesterday 6:33 PM

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White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham listens as US President Donald Trump speaks to the media aboard Air Force One while flying between El Paso, Texas and Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, August 7, 2019. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

Over a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection, former President Donald Trump is still spinning his version of events, and of course the hosts of "The View" have something to say about that. This time though, they have an insider source to fact-check his narratives: guest co-host Stephanie Grisham, who served as the White House press secretary under the former administration.


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The White House call logs reportedly show a seven-hour gap in Trump's phone entries on Jan. 6, but per a report from CNN, the House Select Committee investigating the riot found more than two dozen text messages between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the texts, Thomas allegedly urges Meadows to continue the fight to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

In particular, they address Trump's recent interview with The Washington Post in which he makes many claims, including how the Secret Service kept him from marching to the Capitol alongside his supporters, trying to shift the responsibility of stopping the violence to Nancy Pelosi (who was in hiding for fear of her life at the time) and how he doesn't recall "getting very many" phone calls that day.

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The White House call logs reportedly show a seven-hour gap in Trump's phone entries on Jan. 6, but per a report from CNN, the House Select Committee investigating the riot found more than two dozen text messages between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the texts, Thomas allegedly urges Meadows to continue the fight to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

"I'll say one thing about the call logs, and this is my own personal opinion," Grisham says. "I think there weren't many calls because he didn't want to take any. He didn't want to hear from people."

She also confirms how much influence Ginni Thomas had on Trump and paints a picture of them as being fairly chummy, occasionally meeting up for lunch.

Lunch and dirty hiring practices.

"At that time we [the President's personal staff] would all be scrambling to do damage control knowing that once she [Thomas] left he [Trump] would be telling us who needed to be fired, who was a Never-Trumper in the White House or administration, who was in the 'deep state' because she would come with a list of people who should be fired," Grisham says.

Thomas also advised Trump who to hire, a sticky situation that Grisham says they had to "work around."

The revelation shocks co-host Sunny Hostin, who is fascinated that Supreme Court Justice's wife has influence in the dealings of the executive branch. "It's like a shadow government," she marvels.

"She, I think, is one of those folks that demands attention and has lists of things that she wants to make sure he's aware of," Whoopi Goldberg says.

Grisham says that Trump ultimately wanted to lead "the largest crowd ever" and be regarded as a "king." According to her, throughout his presidency, Trump abused Article 2 of the Constitution — which states that "the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America" — to "do whatever he wants" without considering the repercussions. This is also why she calls "bull" on his claim that he was sitting back to let Pelosi take control of the situation.

"Even in this interview he sounds as sensitive as a toilet seat," says Joy Behar. "Five people died that day and all he's talking about is the number of people who were there to, you know, continue with the 'Big Lie.'"

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The panelists also ask Grisham if she's heard from the Trump base following the insurrection.

"I've not been hearing from them," she shares. "They've been digging into my personal life, stalking my biological father, trying to plant really bad stories about me."

Grisham also notes that Trump's claim that his decision to run for president in 2024 depends on his health doesn't wash since he's often bragged about being in "very good" health, even while adhering to a diet of fast foods and high-calorie meals.

"I think it's a way to be able to not run," Grisham says.

"He's scared of losing," Behar asserts. "And he will lose."

Watch the full discussion below, via YouTube:


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I know a weasel when I see one

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FBI Documents Expose Bureau‘s Big Jan. 6 ‘Lie‘
The bureau says it lacked the authority to monitor social media activity ahead of the pro-Trump insurrection, but it did exactly that during 2020 racial justice and police violence protests
By ANDY KROLL

In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, the FBI told Congress and the American people that the agency had failed to prevent or fully prepare for the worst attack on the U.S. Capitol in more than 200 years in part because it lacked the authority and capabilities to more aggressively monitor social media, where much of the planning for the insurrection took place.

As FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress last summer, the FBI had circulated intelligence materials and other resources before Jan. 6, but the agency had limits in what it could and couldn’t gather from social media. “When we have an authorized purpose and proper predication, there are a lot of things that we do at social media and we do do,” Wray said, “but [what] we cannot do on social media is, without proper predication and authorized purpose, just monitor just in case on social media.”

Wray added, “Now, if the policies should be changed to reflect that, that might be one of the important lessons learned coming out of this whole experience. But that’s not something that currently the FBI has either the authority or certainly the resources, frankly, to do.” Since Wray’s testimony, the bureau has sought to ramp up its online surveillance capabilities, including by entering into one of the largest social-media monitoring contracts of any federal agency.

Yet internal FBI records obtained by Rolling Stone show that, well before Jan. 6, the bureau already engaged in ongoing and widespread tracking of ....

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January 6 Committee is investigating the role Ted Cruz played in the attempt to stall electoral process
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Earlier this week, The Washington Post released a report on their investigation into Ted Cruz’s involvement with Donald Trump between Election Day in November of 2020 and the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, and how deep the Texas senator’s plan to keep Trump in power went. The report also provides a timeline of Cruz’s actions leading up to the insurrection of Jan. 6.

Ted Cruz’s involvement with Trump may be interesting to the House committee investigation of the Capitol attack as the committee looks into how ...

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It's all theatre. Few, if any, politicians will face any serious consequences.

I agree. All these investigations and they seem to end up going nowhere.

It will be worth the laughs even if they do end up letting her run. Easy for me, I'm not in her district

Re #882



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I'm getting the popcorn ready.

The entire Marjorie Taylor Greene insurrection hearings will be broadcast live on the MeidasTouch YouTube channel tomorrow, Friday April 22, beginning at 9:30am ET. Subscribe now to watch and get your popcorn ready.

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Teddy Daniels, a far-right Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, was removed from his home this week after his wife asked a court for emergency protections against abuse. This is at least the third relationship in which Daniels has been accused in court documents of mistreating a female partner.

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McConnell didn't even vote to convict. And, if he'd told the Republicans in the Senate to vote to convict enough of them would have done so to render the entire debate moot.

I'm tired of our party losing': Hogan to hammer Trump in Reagan library speech
David M. Drucker - 29m ago


Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) will blame former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and urge Republicans to reject the former president in a speech viewed as a precursor to a 2024 White House bid.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (left) is a prominent Republican critic of former President Donald Trump.
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (left) is a prominent Republican critic of former President Donald Trump.
“Jan. 6 was not enthusiastic tourists misbehaving. It was an outrageous attack on our democracy, incited by the losing candidate’s inflammatory, false rhetoric,” Hogan will say Tuesday evening at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Southern California, according to excerpts of the sharply worded address shared with the Washington Examiner. “Trump said we would be winning so much we’d … get tired of winning. Well, I’m tired of our party losing.”


Hogan, 65, will be the latest prominent Republican to take the stage at the Reagan library for its “Time for Choosing” speaking series meant to elevate future GOP leaders and potential presidential candidates. And Hogan, a longtime Trump critic who readily admits never voting for him, is as blunt as ever in his criticism of the former president and assessment that nominating him to lead the GOP again in 2024 would be a political disaster.

“The last four years were the worst four years for the Republican Party since the 1930s, even worse than after Watergate when Ronald Reagan had to rebuild the party from the ashes,” Hogan will say. “A party that lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections, and that couldn’t even beat [President] Joe Biden, is desperately in need of a course correction.”

“The truth is, the last election was not rigged, and it wasn’t stolen,” Hogan will add, mocking Trump’s unsupported claims that the outcome of the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. “We simply didn’t offer the majority of voters what they were looking for.”


The Republican Party suffered a trio of stinging defeats on Trump’s watch, losing the presidency and control of the House and Senate.

Despite this dubious feat and the former president’s culpability in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, he remains the de facto leader of the GOP — at least in the eyes of the most committed Republican voters. And with the party poised for major gains in this year’s midterm elections, the stain of Trump’s previous losses could be washed away — again, at least as far as grassroots Republicans are concerned.

Hogan, meanwhile, is an outlier in a party dominated by Trump, and he would begin the 2024 primary as a heavy underdog.

But the governor is poised to dismiss a possible 2022 Republican wave as the product of Biden’s incompetence, arguing the 45th president’s polarizing leadership carries long-term risks for the party. He also will make the case for a more inclusive, pragmatic approach to governing, declaring his principled but less caustic style reflects a Reagan strategy that sparked two landslide victories in presidential contests and laid the foundation for the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994.

“Enough of the angry rhetoric and the grievance politics. Enough of the narcissism of small differences. We can’t build a successful party by tearing it apart or burning it down, and we can’t restore America if we keep shrinking the tent and losing elections to the left,” Hogan will say. “We won’t win back the White House by nominating Donald Trump or a cheap impersonation of him.”



Hogan will be termed out of office next January and is expected to lay the foundation for a 2024 presidential bid between now and then. Trump is mulling a third White House bid and is expected to announce his plans at some point after the midterm elections in November.

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Is it bad that this sort of thing no longer surprises me?

The Ginni Thomas plot to overthrow the United States government is so much deeper than most people realize. Texas Paul reacts to the latest bombshell developments surrounding Ginni and Justice Thomas and lays out the case as to why Clarence Thomas must be impeached.

#899

A Republican calling Republicans out for rigging elections?
Works for me.