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Even Clarence Thomas’ Wife Is Sharing Fake News About the ‘Caravan’
Why we need to correct the record when photographs are hijacked by conspiracy theorists
Ginni Thomas is her own woman. The fact that her husband is an associate justice on the Supreme Court has never prevented her from sharing her point of view. At times, her activism has included advocating and organizing on issues that are certain to appear on the Supreme Court docket. She has also been known to share conspiracy theories — including the fevered fantasy that George Soros is preparing to engineer a coup against the republic.
There is no doubt she is a loving and devoted wife. So devoted that she once sent Anita Hill, a former colleague of Thomas’ who accused him of sexual harassment, a voicemail asking for an apology.
Fact-checking is clearly not part of her process. So when a meme began moving around the internet of a photo of a Mexican law officer supposedly bloodied by the “caravan” — in her mind, a hoard of savage beasts hell-bent on invading via our southern border — she was among the first to post it on Facebook.
