Trump Ally Peter Navarro Prepares Surprise Witnesses for Contempt Trial

[Ohio Joe]

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro is attempting to call several surprise witnesses—including himself—to testify as he defends himself from contempt of Congress charges stemming from his alleged role in the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Navarro, a prominent ally of former President Donald Trump and one of Trump's top supporters in his post-White House career, has battled the charges since early June, when he was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena requiring his testimony—along with a number of documents related to the riots—from the House select committee investigating the January 6 breach of the Capitol.

In legal documents, Navarro—like others facing charges for their refusal to comply with subpoenas relating to January 6—has attempted to invoke the right of executive privilege for work he'd conducted under the former president during his time in office, a right legal scholars, members of Congress, and President Joe Biden have claimed he is not entitled to.

Navarro, however, has sought to take the battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, responding to Biden shortly after he was denied executive privilege in a March decision that "Mr. Biden is not the president I worked for. Donald Trump is."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-ally-peter-navarro-prepares-surprise-witnesses-for-contempt-trial/ar-AA13I650?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=1a882148ed404a35b71d3cc90356eeda

Heh... This is the exact same thing Bannon tried and failed at... Bye bye Petey, you are going to prison

[Tommy Carcetti]

1. It's Pillow Man.

We get it.

[dweller]

2. ooh ooh do the Green Bay Sweep scenario again for the jury

They will love it !

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[crickets]

3. Hilarious he won't testify, given how loudly and proudly

he spilled his guts to Rolling Stone about how it all went down... more than once. 🙄

[FakeNoose]

4. He's a lawyer who's defending himself in court

... and now he's going to testify in his own defense. How does that work?

Does he get to sue himself for malpractice later, once he gets convicted?

[Midnight Writer]

5. So is Navarro going to subpoena witnesses? What if THEY refuse to comply like he did?

Or is this just another delay tactic, holding up proceedings while they fight over his subpoenas?

I don't understand this subpoena controversy. If there is a lawfully issued subpoena, and a person refuses to comply, then he is in violation. How does it takes months (or years) to hash out these simple cases?

[hibbing]

6. Insurrection n/t