Former President Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro will head to trial on Tuesday on two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress, after refusing to testify or provide documents to the U.S. congressional investigation of the attack on the Capitol.
Navarro, a longtime China hawk who advised Republican Trump on trade issues and also served on the COVID-19 task force, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack wanted to ask him about a "Green Bay Sweep" plan to delay Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's election victory that Navarro later detailed in a book he wrote after leaving the White House.Earlier this year, Special Counsel Jack Smithcriminally for trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, which Trump falsely claims was the result of fraud.
He was not able to get Trump to testify and has only produced one letter written by Trump's attorney after Navarro's indictment that claimed Navarro had an obligation to assert privilege. "I still don’t know what the president said," Mehta said at the Aug. 28 hearing, adding that the evidence in support of Navarro's claims was "pretty weak sauce."
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