The Justice Department has charged Peter Navarro, White House trade adviser to former President Trump, with two counts of contempt of Congress.
The indictment carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a $200,000 fine.
It follows Navarro's decision to ignore subpoenas from the Jan. 6 committee.
As The New York Times reports:
Prosecutors say that Mr. Navarro, 72, was issued a subpoena by the House committee on Feb. 9, but failed to appear for a deposition or provide documents to congressional investigators. The indictment charges him with two counts of contempt that each carry a maximum sentence of a year in prison, as well as a fine of up to $100,000.
He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A former White House trade adviser who undertook extensive efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power after the 2020 election, Mr. Navarro is the second high-ranking former presidential aide to be charged with contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House committee. In November, Stephen K. Bannon, a former top aide to Mr. Trump, was indicted on similar charges.
The indictment against Mr. Navarro came nearly two months after the House voted on mostly party lines to recommend criminal charges against him. Lawmakers decided in the same vote to recommend a contempt indictment against another of Mr. Trump's top aides, Dan Scavino Jr.
Navarro has repeatedly called the select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack illegitimate and has filed a lawsuit against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
He bombastically told Fox News that any government prosecution of him would amount to “domestic terrorism.”
I wonder at the reporter’s words towards the end of this story , where ‘ ALN STAFF ‘ describes Peter Navarro’s words in relating his defense of his reasoning in ignoring the subpoena from the ‘select’ House committee . The wording describes Navarro’s reasoning to FOX News as ‘ Bombastic ‘ . Strange I think , when ‘ALN STAFF’ describes the House committee as ‘ Select ‘ . I would think Navarro’s explanation as hardly ‘bombastic’ and more in line with someone who recognizes his Rights as a citizen facing ‘hardly a ‘select committee , while the same is being seen by the Citizen as a kangaroo court with further plans of disruption by time & money in yet another sham court fiasco–at The Citizen’s expense , I will add . More of OUR Money from OUR Treasury spent on the whims & weaseling of the DNC . There’s an old saying that fits well in how the Citizens see all of these no-end-dramas ; ” Beating A Dead Horse With A Cannon ” . I wonder , at the ideology of ‘ANL STAFF’ , that would put words together in this manner ; it ‘appears’ to benefit slander-prone liberalists . We , Citizens don’t want to read materiels that stir more divisiveness . Knock it off ; and borrowing from your letterhead ; ‘ In the Name & The Cause of LIBERTY ‘ .
100% agree. Your choice of words for someone defending themself from a mere allegation of misconduct that was done totally along political lines is reprehensible.
The Democrats have destroyed the “rule of law” in this country. Sure, arrest someone who doesn’t want to appear in front of a “kangaroo court” but acquit the lying attorney who colluded with Hillary to start four years of investigations based on lies.
Biden’s open border violates multiple Federal laws daily, So who are the real Insurrectionists? The real Seditionists? Antifa is a terrorist organization but they allow them to operate with impunity while they call anyone who supported Trump white supremacists and the “greatest threat to the Homeland”. Their indoctrination has moved from the College Campuses all the way down to middle and elementary schools in the form of CRT. This administration has destroyed the rule of law in this country and weaponized all the three letter agencies (the IRS, the CIA, the FBI, the EPA, the DOJ and even the DOD) against anyone who disagrees with their radical Socialist and ant-white, anti-family and anti-Christian agenda. Exactly how is Homeland Security’s “Board of Disinformation” not a violation of the First Amendment? The mainstream media and all the big Tech “censors” are complicit. The fact that we still have dozens of Americans locked up unconstitutionally in a D.C. gulag, on trumped up trespassing charges for over a year and a half with no due process or bail should engage every American. The Police have been demonized and defunded. They are all called fascists and racists, even though a large percentage are minorities. Is it any wonder they are more and more reluctant to race “into the fire”? Yet real criminals are released every day with “no bail” back onto our city streets. The border is wide open to terrorists, criminals, cartels and limitless Chinese made Fentanyl that literally kills a hundred thousand Americans every year.
“The fact that we still have dozens of Americans locked up unconstitutionally in a D.C. gulag, on trumped up trespassing charges for over a year and a half with no due process or bail should engage every American.”
Can anyone explain why apparently none of these dozens of Americans locked up unconstitutionally in a D.C. gulag, on trumped up trespassing charges have gone to a US court to request release from jail on the basis of a writ of habeas corpus – after all, the Federal Government have failed to metaphorically “produce the body” (of a charge or the evidence)?
We’re still waiting for Eric Holder to be indicted for ignoring subpoenas. When is his court date?