by Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse
People have asked me why I have remained relatively quiet about the legal issue and targeting of Peter Navarro by a weaponized DOJ and Congress. I will explain in greater detail after the news from today.
Peter Navarro was a former adviser to President Trump and the lead of the coronavirus task force. Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a short opinion rejecting Navarro’s effort to have the Supreme Court intervene and stay his sentence.
Mr. Navarro was charged with contempt of Congress, and was prosecuted by the DOJ and convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the J6 House Select Committee investigating the protest at the U.S. Capitol. [Note, most of you know I received a similar subpoena from them, so I have a slightly different perspective than most.]
[…] Navarro spoke Tuesday morning in a strip mall in West Miami near the prison where he will serve four months. “I will walk proudly in there to do my time,” Navarro said. “I will gather strength from this: Donald John Trump is the nominee.” Navarro called the case an “unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers.” (media story)
WATCH:
I have a great deal of sympathy for Navarro. I firmly believe he was unfairly targeted by the J6 committee and a weaponized DOJ who were looking for any opportunity to target people in Donald Trump’s orbit – including Navarro and Steve Bannon. I regard Navarro as a really awesome ally, and functionally very smart and apt at the responsibilities he held in the White House. Navarro is a good man.
Navarro was charged with failure to provide testimony and documents to Congress. Navarro argued that executive privilege covered his refusal to provide testimony and documents.
The executive privilege that covers private conversation is held by President Trump and cannot be,…
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