Trump White House official Peter Navarro jailed for not going to Jan. 6 listening to

On Jan 25, 2024

Peter Navarro, a former White House official underneath Donald Trump, has been put in jail after failing to attend his listening to in regards to the Jan 6 Capitol riots.

Navarro was convicted of contempt of Congress after he did not cooperate with the investigation into the notorious assault on the U.S. Capitol by right-wing Trump supporters. He now faces a four-month stretch behind bars.

The 74-year-old is the second of Trump’s aides to face prices for contempt of Congress, following within the footsteps of disgraced White House adviser Steve Bannon. Navarro refused to supply paperwork requested by by the House Jan. 6 committee, for which he was discovered responsible.

Navarro was a type of who promoted the previous president’s deluded claims about mass voter fraud following the 2020 election loss to President Biden. He served a stretch working as a White House commerce adviser underneath Trump, earlier than he was ousted in shame and accused of inciting the riot on Capitol.

The Massachusetts-born adviser beforehand mentioned he would attraction the decision and claims he was unable to cooperate with the committee as a result of Trump had invoked govt privilege – when a president orders a department of presidency to withhold info within the public curiosity. But a choose barred him from making that argument at trial after discovering that he couldn’t show that Trump had truly invoked the privilege.

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