Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s ‘fan fiction’ executive privilege claim deserves jail time: Feds

FILE – Former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Washington, Aug. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Federal prosecutors want an economic adviser to former President Donald Trump to spend half a year behind bars for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena from congressional investigators looking into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Peter Navarro, who served as trade adviser during the Trump administration, was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena issued to him by the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a sentencing memo filed Thursday, government lawyers argued that Navarro “thumbed his nose at Congressional authority” from the start, and therefore should spend six months in jail.

“He cloaked his bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt behind baseless, unfounded invocations of executive privilege and immunity that could not and would never apply to his situation,” the government’s memo says. “The Committee sought documents and testimony from the Defendant pertinent to a matter of national importance — the circumstances that led to the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and the disruption of the peaceful transfer of power. But the Defendant, like the rioters at the Capitol, put politics, not country, first, and stonewalled Congress’s investigation.”

“The Defendant chose allegiance to former President Donald Trump over the rule of law even after being apprised that executive privilege would not excuse his default,” prosecutors added.

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