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1:20Now PlayingMitch McConnell brushes off Clarence Thomas gift controversy | USA TODAY
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1:20Now PlayingSenator Mitch McConnell was asked about the reports of Justice Clarence Thomas receiving gifts from a wealthy Conservative donor.
RELATEDClarence Thomas secretly vacationed with GOP megadonor, reports say
In a statement, Thomas acknowledged that he and his wife, Ginni Thomas, had joined billionaire GOP megadonor Harlan Crow and his wife Kathy on a number of “family trips” during the more than a quarter century they have known them. He described the couple as “among our dearest friends.”
Thomas has accepted lavish gifts from the billionaire Dallas businessman nearly every year, which had included vacations on Crow’s superyacht and trips on the billionaire’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet as well as a week each summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks, ProPublica reported, citing flight records, internal documents and interviews with Crow’s employees.
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