brand-new reporting regarding financial payments made out not to clarence, but to ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice, who is already under fire today. we are going to get to all of it tonight. but first, before all that, there is this. do you remember, during the peak of the pandemic, when people would banged pots and pans outside their windows and clap and cheer for essential workers every night at 7 pm? well, this is kind of like that, but only for mogadore hards. since august, almost nightly, trump supporters have met outside the d.c. jail, and at about 9 pm, the january six defendants, inside the jail they flicker their lights on and off. and that s because they are signaling it s time for everyone, inside and outside, to seeing the star-spangled banner. the washington post reports that they do that on most nights. former president trump even recorded and released a rendition of the national anthem using these guys as, like, a backup cho
financial payments made out not to clarence, but to ginni thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice, who is already under fire today. we are going to get to all of it tonight. but first, before all that, there is this. do you remember, during the peak of the pandemic, when people would banged pots and pans outside their windows and clap and cheer for essential workers every night at 7 pm? well, this is kind of like that, but only for mogadore hards. since august, almost nightly, trump supporters have met outside the d. c. jail, and at about 9 pm, the january six defendants, inside the jail they flicker their lights on and off. and that s because they are signaling it s time for everyone, inside and outside, to seeing the star-spangled banner. the washington post reports that they do that on most nights. former president trump even recorded and released a rendition of the national anthem using these guys as, like, a backup choir. he then proceeded to play
access and favor, and someone else who has been the beneficiary of that. and even though they may be dear, dear friends today, it does not change the fact that the relationship is predicated on one person wanting someone something and another person being a justice on the u.s. supreme court. yeah, i ve got to ask, you tali, because you clerked the idea that the supreme court justice is riding around, living the life of insane luxury that is unfathomable to even a lot a very rich people, on a trip to the caribbean this is the person for whom clarence thomas was a legal guardian, mark martin, he recalls, riding jet skis off the side of the billionaires yacht, roughly 20 years ago. martin, thomas, and the crows went on a cruise to russia in the baltics. they towards st. petersburg in a rented helicopter and visited a palace. we are talking about a level of i m not going to say corruption, though, that is the word that i
school. in 2015, it was a bronze bust of frederick douglass, which was valued at more than $6,000. those were some of the gifts that supreme court justice clarence thomas listed on his public disclosure filings over the years, in keeping with post watergate federal disclosure laws. while each of those reported items could raise some eyebrows on their own, they are not even the most interesting parts of thomas s disclosure forms. for that, you have to look at what is missing from those forms. in the past month, propublica has reported on a litany of items on trips and on payments for real estate that justice clarence thomas accepted as gifts from texas billionaire and republican megadonor harlan crow. they are gifts that justice thomas routinely failed to report. if you add up all the dollar amounts from propublica s reporting, the gifts amount at up to more than $1 million. and none of it showed up on the disclosure forms over the years. today, propublica is out with
and this is the guy who appears to be leading the song, ryan nichols, who is also awaiting trial. here you can see him on january 6th as identified by the justice department, assaulting police officers with a chemical spray. mr. nichols is also famous for this. i m telling you what, i m here in the pits. i m hearing that pence just caved. is that true? i m hearing reports that pence caved. i m telling you. if pence caved, we re going to drag him through the streets. politicians are going to get drug through the streets. the department of justice has charged more than 1000 people relay the crimes even now, more than two years later, people are still being arrested and just this week the fbi arrested a man they allege set off this explosive device in a capital tunnel that day. as you can see, the explosive was thrown into a tunnel packed with police officers, who were defending the capitol. they are jammed in there like