No, I’m not talking about Marjorie Taylor Green. Or Sarah Palin. Or Marsha Blackburn. I could go on. And on.
I’m talking about Ginni Thomas.
I wrote about her”lists” a long while back but there are new details in light of the texts she sent on January 6th. Kooky doesn’t begin to describe it:
Ginni Thomas regularly met with Donald Trump while he was president, often providing him lists of people whom he should fire and hire — one of which the White House suspected of being a foreign spy.
The latest turn in the MAGA unmasking of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, who we learned last week sent a series of text messages pressuring Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to work to overturn the 2020 election, comes by way of a Daily Beast report published Friday.
The meetings between Trump and Thomas didn’t exactly leave the former president in a good mood, according to the Daily Beast. “We all knew that within minutes after Ginni left her meeting with the president, he would start yelling about firing people for being disloyal,” a former senior Trump administration official told the outlet. “When Ginni Thomas showed up, you knew your day was wrecked.”
Thomas’ hiring memos were not taken seriously by Trump aides. According to the Beast, “they were so often filled with infamous bigots and conspiracy theorists, woefully under-qualified names, and obvious close friends of Thomas that several senior Trump aides would laugh at them — that is, until Trump would force his staff to put certain names through the official vetting process, three sources familiar with the matter said.”
It was during this process that one of the names was disqualified for being a potential foreign-intelligence asset. It’s unclear who this person was. “These fucking lists were so insane and unworkable,” one former administration official summarized. “A lot of them were dripping with paranoia and read like they were written by a disturbed person.”
Thomas was pushing disturbed ideas in her texts to Meadows, too. She floated QAnon conspiracy theories, like how those who had perpetuated massive voting fraud — of which there was none, of course — would be sent to Guantanamo Bay. “Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days, & will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition,” she wrote on Nov. 5, two days after the election. The same day, she sent Meadows a link to a YouTube video labeled “TRUMP STING w CIA Director Steve Pieczenik, The Biggest Election Story in History, QFS-BLOCKCHAIN.” The video is no longer available, but we do know that Pieczenik, a former State Department official, lied about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, claiming it was a “false flag” operation — so he’s clearly not a rational person.
Thomas, who attended the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally, has also railed against the danger that “transsexual fascists” pose to America. Some, she may have suspected, were in the Trump administration.
She’s been a cult member since she was a young woman. It’s a mindset:
I knew Ginni Thomas. Ginni Thomas was in a cult (the large group awareness training cult, Lifespring). Here she is in 1989 speaking at an event I hosted for former members. Until today, almost NO one has seen this video.
As you’ll probably notice, Ginni seems likable (and she was)! After she left Lifespring, she got heavily involved in the movement to HELP former cult members exit cults. She also organized a cult awareness briefing for congressional staffers in the late eighties.
Sadly, the people who helped deprogram Ginni were also apparently involved in right-wing causes. As is the case with SO many former members, she was overly susceptible and went from one cult to another (The Cult of Trump).
For more on Ginni Thomas’ time in a cult, her cult activism in the 80s, and her turn to right-wing causes, this @washingtonpost article from 1991 is surprisingly thorough.
To see the FULL video from this 1989 cult member support group conference, you can see that on my YouTube channel here (Ginni Thomas appears at the 17:30 mark):
Hey friends, one of the speakers, Joe Szimhart, pointed out the conference was 1986, not 1989. My video was mislabeled and I apologize.
Originally tweeted by Steven Hassan, PhD (@CultExpert) on March 31, 2022.