Inside Trump’s Weird Meeting With Clarence Thomas’ Wife

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (L) and his wife Virginia leave the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception after the funeral mass for Justice Antonin Scalia on February 20, 2016 in Wash... US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (L) and his wife Virginia leave the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception after the funeral mass for Justice Antonin Scalia on February 20, 2016 in Washington, DC. Scalia died on February 13 at the age of 79. / AFP / Nicholas Kamm (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump took an unusual meeting for the top executive last week, according to a Saturday New York Times report.

The President reportedly sat flummoxed as the hard-right activists railed against women and transgender people serving in the military, accused White House staffers of blocking their favored people from jobs and insulted congressional Republican leadership.

To top it all off, the meeting was spearheaded by Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni, known to post conspiracy theories on her social media.

Per the Times, Trump said little during the meeting, though he did rise to the defense of Republican leadership when one meeting attendee suggested they be “tarred and feathered.” He apparently stuck up for Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), questioning what else the group thought they should have done during the shutdown.

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  1. Avatar for bodie1 bodie1 says:

    He doesn’t pay attention to 2s.

  2. QAnon :star::star::star:@qanon76 Jan 6
    WIA military personnel targets of the program?
    PTSD+
    Clandestine Black OPs > zero affiliation (non_stick)
    Something out of a movie?
    Fiction?
    The hole is deep.

    Admit it. The only people who still support you are even crazier than you are, or are from troll farms in St. Petersburg. Melania was right, you never meant to get elected, so why go through with it?

  3. I don’t think it is appropriate to be having meeting with wives of Supreme Court Justices.

  4. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Clarence Thomas should be impeached over this. This is 86 different kinds of wrong, starting with the Separation of Powers.

    And yes I think he should be impeached for something she did. He’s married to her and it’s a farce to pretend there is some kind of Chinese Wall between them.

    *Chinese Wall is actually an old legal term -

  5. A President meeting with the spouse of a SC Justice on a political issue is unethical and inappropriate.

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