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Clarence Thomas Likes to Vacation in Walmart Parking Lots
And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you
One clue that someone is lying to you is if they volunteer information you didn't ask for. For example, Clarence Thomas told an interviewer that he prefers traveling across the U.S. to visiting places like Europe and feels most comfortable in an RV or Walmart parking lot.
"There's just something normal about it."
Right.
Clarence Thomas, who has been a justice of the Supreme Court for over 30 years, has spent a week every year for the past 20 years at the private resort of his best buddy, Harlan Crow, a billionaire mega-donor to the Republican Party. Crow, who became Thomas' "best friend" only after Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court, has a history of being extremely generous with Justice Thomas.
This same billionaire recently took Thomas and his insurrection-promoting wife on a $500k vacation involving a private plane, a luxury yacht, and a week of island hopping in Indonesia.
Thomas must have let his wife, Ginni, twist his arm for the past two decades because he seems to have given up the RV in favor of paid vacations with a man so wealthy his home is a veritable museum of…
