Peter Navarro, former Assistant to the President and Director of the White House National Trade Council during the Trump administration (2017-2021), who was indicted on two counts of contempt of Congress and convicted on both counts, will be sentenced on Thursday, January 25. He faces up to a year in jail and a fine of $100,000 for each count.
[Note: Navarro refused to comply with subpoenas to produce material and testimony for the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.]
When The Wall Street Journal published William McGurn’s column, ‘The Contempt of Hunter Biden,’ which compared Navarro’s (and Steve Bannon’s) refusals to comply with subpoenas to a similar refusal by Hunter Biden, Navarro responded: “Unlike the president’s son, I was a senior White House adviser who received an unlawful congressional subpoena.”
Navarro added: “My appearing before Congress would have violated a 50-year-old DOJ policy providing for absolute testimonial immunity of alter egos of president such as myself.”
Why not hold Hunter Biden to the same standard as Steve Bannon? https://t.co/EQB2P2YN6A
— Bill McGurn (@wjmcgurn) January 9, 2024
Navarro emphasized his disapproval of the WSJ editorial by calling McGurn, former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush (2006-2008), an “a*%*ole.”
Navarro wrote on X: “A*%*ole wrote a WSJ column calling to put me in prison. Wiki says a speechwriter for Rupert Murdoch and worked for RINO network Fox News AND started off with George Bush and Dick Cheney. Remember: These are the same a*%*oles that want Trump in prison.”
Asshole wrote a WSJ column calling to put me in prison. Wiki says a speechwriter for Rupert Murdoch and worked for RINO network @foxnews AND started off with George Bush and Dick Cheney. Remember: These are the same assholes that want Trump in prison. https://t.co/34s5kWCIsa
— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) January 18, 2024
Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports that the Department of Justice “is seeking 6 months in prison for Peter NAVARRO for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. He cites the DOJ court memo regarding Navarro (see below): “He cloaked his bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt behind baseless, unfounded invocations of executive privilege and immunity.”
JUST IN: DOJ is seeking 6 months in prison for Peter NAVARRO for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 19, 2024
"He cloaked his bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt behind baseless, unfounded invocations of executive privilege and immunity." pic.twitter.com/85uTMPXLTf
