Former White Home adviser Peter Navarro defied a 1/6 Committee subpoena for Trump and now he might be doing 4 months in jail for contempt of Congress.
Former Trump White Home adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced to 4 months in jail Thursday for legal contempt of Congress, with federal prosecutors saying he “thumbed his nose” on the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
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The cost carried a compulsory minimal sentence of a month in jail. Federal prosecutors had sought six months for Navarro, saying he, “like the rioters at the Capitol, put politics, not country, first, and stonewalled Congress’s investigation.” Navarro, prosecutors mentioned, “chose allegiance to former President Donald Trump over the rule of law.”
Navarro’s finest hope is to delay his reporting to jail with appeals and hope that Trump returns to the White Home in 2025 and pardons him.
Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon each tried to place Trump’s perception {that a} president is above the regulation and may use govt privilege to dam anybody from testifying into observe, they usually each have been convicted of contempt of Congress. The distinction between Navarro and when Home Republicans threatened Hunter Biden with contempt is that Navarro made no effort to adjust to the subpoena, whereas Hunter Biden did. Home Republicans knew that their contempt menace was a lifeless finish, which is why they agreed to a February date for Biden’s testimony.
Navarro has confirmed that hanging round with Donald Trump will get you locked up.
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