It’s time for Clarence Thomas and Ginni Thomas to panic
It doesn’t matter how “obviously guilty” you are in the court of public opinion. In order for you to be convicted of something, there has to be proof beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed a criminal act. When people ask why Ginni Thomas hasn’t even so much as been charged with anything, it comes down to the simple fact that there isn’t enough evidence for any jury to convict her of anything. But that may have just changed in a big way.
It was bad enough news for Ginni Thomas when her associate Sidney Powell cut a cooperating plea deal in Fulton County last week. If and when Powell turns around and cuts a similar deal with Jack Smith, her resulting cooperation could be enough to finally nail Thomas for something on the federal level.
But then we all learned today that Mark Meadows, who was at the center of every Trump criminal scandal circa 2020, has had an immunity deal in place with Jack Smith and has already testified multiple times. Meadows knows everything. He’s probably in a better position to give up Ginni Thomas than Sidney Powell is. And even as we wait for Powell to cut a deal with Jack Smith, it turns out Meadows already has one.
So yeah, it’s time for Ginni Thomas (and Clarence Thomas) to panic. Ginni now has to worry that she could end up criminally indicted in the Jack Smith probe. At this point she might need a cooperation deal of her own. Then it becomes a matter of who all she can testify against – and keep in mind that she can’t give up anything on Meadows because he’s already cooperating.
Early on I wrote that if it ever got bad enough for Ginni Thomas, we might end up seeing a scenario where Clarence Thomas trades his resignation in exchange for the non-prosecution of his wife. The law doesn’t work that way on paper, so it would require some kind of creative Spiro Agnew-level arrangement to pull it off. But it could be arranged.
I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up too high, but whereas the “Clarence resigns to save Ginni” scenario was purely a hypothetical when this all started, we’re now in the territory where it could be a real thing that ends up happening. After all, now that we know Mark Meadows flipped, anything is possible and no one is safe.
