Navarro 'Thought He Was On Offense' Until Indictment Says Ari Melber - Deadline - MSNBC

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MSNBC’s host of “The Beat” Ari Melber, former U.S. attorney Harry Litman, and Washington Post congressional investigations reporter Jackie Alemany react to former Trump adviser Peter Navarro indicted on contempt of Congress. Aired on 06/03/2022.

[Warpy]

1. I think he's just LARPing, honestly, he's that witless

He's striking the pose that the Biden administration is illegal, that TFG is really the president, and that he is still part of the government (never mind he hasn't been paid for it in a year and a half) and how dare they demand anything of an august personage such as himself who is fully covered by executive privilege.

Playing offense? If we want to take the moronic football analogy farther, when the horn sounds and the fourth quarter ends, it's time to leave the field. That's the part Navarro is pretending he doesn't get.

He does. He's just play acting to his crowd, not realizing not only is the game over, but the crowd is bored and heading for their cars.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. You're right, he's "playing to the crowd." He's so deluded, he believes the majority agrees with him

The "majority" which believes that the election was "stolen." One big clue, and I initially thought that was bizarre, was that he used his time in front of the microphone to sell his book, "Taking Back Trump's America." "All 74 million of you who voted for TFG..."

[Warpy]

4. I honestly don't think he does and it wakes him up in a cold sweat at 3 AM

He thinks the crowd is the only thing that will protect him, that they'll vote TFG back into power and he'll be protected again.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Makes sense. And hopes to inspire them if only they'd read his book...

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Wow, he's in a tight spot

I wonder if it's a Bannon-esque style cabal of radical libertarians, asking because in this instance in particular he seems not to trust, value, heed, or even recognize the existence of government and governmental powers. There are such schools of economics of course, maybe Navarro is of that ilk, and there are such on Wall Street as well.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Sounds almost like he evolved into

a sovereign citizen!

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Yikes! That he does!

believes he is no longer subject to U.S. laws...