The smug Peter Navarro was convicted immediately of contempt of Congress after he defied the Home committee’s subpoena throughout the Jan. 6 investigations. The con artist and former commerce advisor to Donald Trump faces as much as one 12 months in jail, and might be sentenced in January.
Navarro “acted like he was above the legislation,” mentioned prosecutors by way of CBS Information. However immediately’s verdict proves him fallacious. (See video of his response under.)
From MTN:
Navarro’s trial adopted the same sample to Steve Bannon’s. Each have been charged with refusing to seem earlier than the J6 Committee, each asserted government privilege that was rejected by the trial court docket, each additionally tried to make constitutional defenses that have been additionally excluded, then each refused to testify or name any witnesses.
As soon as the trial choose excluded Navarro’s inventive defenses, he primarily had no different defenses accessible. The federal government needed to show that the J6 Committee was a lawfully shaped organ of Congress, {that a} subpoena was issued, the subpoena was served on Navarro, and he willfully failed to seem. Every of these issues was rapidly and simply proved.
And from CBS:
Sentencing is about for January, and Navarro faces a most of 1 12 months in jail and a high quality of $100,000 for every depend. Talking with reporters outdoors the court docket, Navarro and his attorneys indicated they’d attraction the decision, calling the prosecution “a landmark case” about separation of powers.
Right here is video of the responsible gentleman instantly after the decision, (posted by Justin Baragona), together with some weird footage of the protestors who at all times present up for him as background leisure. It appears like one other lawsuit, this time from one of many protestors, may be within the works.