As the Jan. 6 committee gets ready to hold public hearings into the events of that date, it still needs to decide whether to interview Ginni Thomas about the leaked texts between her and then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, urging him to investigate reports of voter fraud in the 2020 elections. Nothing would expose the committee’s partisanship more than hauling in the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas. Indeed, the committee would never consider wasting taxpayer funds to pursue a private citizen for her opinions.

But whatever the motivations, there is no basis for the committee to call Ginni Thomas. Contrary to false reporting by the New York Times and others, Ginni Thomas had no involvement in planning the rally. She attended the rally in the morning but left before then-President Donald Trump addressed the crowd because she was cold. She did not pay for any buses for the rally, and she did not play a mediating role with the group that had a permit to hold the rally. Neither her actions nor her texts had any connection to some citizens attacking the Capitol. In fact, one of her private texts to Meadows states that those individuals do not represent Trump supporters.