by Paul Bedard at Washington Examiner
Former Trump trade aide Peter Navarro made history on March 19, when he became the first White House aide to be thrown in prison for contempt of Congress, for refusing to appear before the House Democratic Jan. 6 Capitol riot committee.
Four months later, on July 17, he will embark on a campaign to add another and more important asterisk to his name when he leaves Federal Correctional Institution Miami. His goal is to get the Supreme Court to formalize a decades-old Justice Department policy of not compelling presidential aides to testify before Congress.
“I have said from the outset, after receiving a congressional subpoena from a kangaroo court otherwise known as the J6 Committee, that my case would certainly go the legal distance,” Navarro said.
And now, because he has a new book coming out on July 16, The New MAGA Deal, we know his plans.
In the book from Winning Team Publishing, founded by Donald Trump Jr. and Trump adviser Sergio Gor, Navarro said he hopes to end the type of political persecution he and former President Donald Trump have faced from President Joe Biden’s Justice Department by getting the court to agree that White House aides are “alter egos of the president” and should be protected from House and Senate partisans.
Navarro, in excerpts provided exclusively to Secrets, said his is a classic separation of powers case. “It is a case that has the potential of forever defining the scale and scope of the constitutional separation of powers as it implicates executive privilege and partisan attempts by the legislative branch to destroy that separation,” he wrote.
When he exits prison next week, Navarro, a youthful 74, said, “First is a big hug and kiss for my fiance, who has been an absolute rock during this.”
Then it’s on to his new project. His goal is a big one:…
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