Former Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro has been found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The two counts each carry between 30 days to one year in jail and a maximum fine of $100,000.
Navarro is the second prominent Trump White House official convicted by a jury of contempt of Congress, following Steve Bannon’s conviction in October 2022.
NBC News has more:
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was convicted Thursday of criminal contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the plot to overturn the 2020 election.
The jury deliberated for about four hours before finding Navarro guilty of two counts of contempt for refusing to testify before the House Jan. 6 committee and turn over subpoenaed documents.
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“There’s no mistake, no accident,” prosecutor John Crabb told jurors in the Washington, D.C. federal courtroom during closing arguments.
“That man thinks he’s above the law,” Crabb said. “In this country, nobody is above the law.”
Navarro’s attorney, Stanley Woodward, claimed the government did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that his client was deliberately insubordinate.
“For the government to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, it also has to prove that Dr. Navarro’s failure to comply with the subpoena was not the result of accident, mistake or inadvertence,” Woodward stressed in his closing argument.
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Peter was wronged as all conservatives are in this liberal court system…
Rigged evidence
SR – what ‘evidence’ – all that has been ‘presented’ is innuendo, half truths and out right lies. Never mind it was a phony charge to begin with.
Then why is Biden, Obama and Clinton, not in prison and Pelosi, Feinstein, Schiff just to name a few? Answer that?
Exactly!
“THAT MAN THINKS HE’S ABOVE THE LAW,” CRABB SAID. “IN THIS COUNTRY, NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW.”
Prosecutor John Crabb just told you he is a biased, anti-Constitutional leftist. Anyone else knows leftists get a pass when it comes to the law and anyone the left deans is their enemy gets persecuted.
What about Eric Holder? What kind of punishment was given to him when he ignored a subpoena?
This is not new.
Communists have weaponized LawFare to conquer countries many times. The opposition jailed…
their Ideology Wins!
I just cannot believe AMERICANS are allowing this to go on! Every Federal Building in the nation should be surrounded! When do the people, not phony “representatives” rise up?
Now is the time. It’s 1776!
Superman ain’t comin’!
I can name many that are above the law and they are all crazicrats
A travesty brought on by a corrupt judge in an overwhelming Democrat stronghold. Another attempt to frighten Republicans from working for elected officials. Where are all the messages that Hillary destroyed? Where is her jail sentence