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Trump's Former Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Dismiss Contempt of Congress
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trumps-former-trade-adviser-peter-navarro-makes-last-ditch-effort-to-dismiss-contempt-of-congress-charges-as-trial-date-looms/Trump’s Former Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Dismiss Contempt of Congress Charges as Trial Date Looms
MARISA SARNOFF
Nov 4th, 2022, 6:01 pm
Lawyers for one-time Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro argued that their client shouldn’t be facing contempt of Congress charges for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, appearing before a federal judge less than two weeks before trial in the case is set to begin.
Navarro was arrested in June and charged with two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, a charge that recently resulted in a jail sentence for Trump’s ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon. According to federal prosecutors, Navarro refused to comply with a House subpoena requesting documents and testimony from Navarro regarding what the committee said were efforts by Trump and those in his inner circle to block certification of Joe Biden’s electoral win.
Navarro has insisted that he believed that he was bound by executive privilege and could not cooperate with the subpoena. His attorneys argued Friday that the charges against him should be dismissed.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta told Navarro’s attorney Stanley Woodward that it wasn’t entirely clear that Trump actually invoked executive privilege as to Navarro and the subpoena, but Woodward said that it was clear to his client from his communications with the former president that he was indeed asserting the privilege.
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MARISA SARNOFF
Nov 4th, 2022, 6:01 pm
Lawyers for one-time Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro argued that their client shouldn’t be facing contempt of Congress charges for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, appearing before a federal judge less than two weeks before trial in the case is set to begin.
Navarro was arrested in June and charged with two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, a charge that recently resulted in a jail sentence for Trump’s ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon. According to federal prosecutors, Navarro refused to comply with a House subpoena requesting documents and testimony from Navarro regarding what the committee said were efforts by Trump and those in his inner circle to block certification of Joe Biden’s electoral win.
Navarro has insisted that he believed that he was bound by executive privilege and could not cooperate with the subpoena. His attorneys argued Friday that the charges against him should be dismissed.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta told Navarro’s attorney Stanley Woodward that it wasn’t entirely clear that Trump actually invoked executive privilege as to Navarro and the subpoena, but Woodward said that it was clear to his client from his communications with the former president that he was indeed asserting the privilege.
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