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- Peter Kent Navarro (born July 15, 1949) is an American economist who served in the Trump administration, first as Deputy Assistant to the President and director of the short-lived White House National Trade Council, then as Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the new Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy; he was also named the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator. [ 1 ][ 2 ] He is a professor emeritus of economics and public policy at the...
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Navarro, who sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, [5] was the first former White House official ever imprisoned on a contempt-of-Congress conviction. [6] Navarro's views on trade are significantly outside the mainstream of economic thought, and are widely considered fringe by other economists.
Mar 20, 2024 · Peter Navarro, an ex-White House aide to former President Donald Trump, has reported to a federal prison in Miami, making history as the first former White House official to be imprisoned for a...
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Mar 19, 2024 · Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to Donald Trump, began a four-month jail term for contempt of congress in federal prison on Tuesday. Navarro, 74, was convicted last year after ignoring a...
Mar 19, 2024 · Washington — Peter Navarro, who served as White House trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, turned himself in to a federal prison in Miami on Tuesday to begin serving a four-month...
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- The Navarro subpoena
- Navarro's sentencing hearing
Washington — Peter Navarro, a former trade official in the Trump White House, was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday on two contempt of Congress charges stemming from his refusal to comply with a subpoena related to his actions after the 2020 election.
In 2022, Navarro defied a demand for records and testimony from the now-defunct House select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. A federal jury in Washington, D.C., convicted Navarro after a short trial in September 2023.
Judge Amit Mehta, who imposed the sentence after a hearing in federal court in Washington, also fined Navarro $9,500. The sentence was less strict than the six months in prison and $600,000 fine that prosecutors had requested. He will not report directly to prison as his attorneys argue that he should be released as they pursue an appeal of his conviction. They quickly filed notice that they would ask an appeals court to review the case.
Navarro briefly spoke during Thursday's hearing, thanking his lawyers and the judge.
In February 2022, congressional investigators were interested in Navarro's efforts to formulate a plan to delay the certification of the 2020 presidential election results from his post in the Trump White House. The Jan. 6 committee issued a subpoena seeking records and testimony, with its chairman saying Navarro "appears to have information directly relevant to the Select Committee's investigation."
Navarro refused to comply, claiming former President Donald Trump had asserted executive privilege over the material sought by the committee. President Biden and the White House Counsel's Office declined to invoke the privilege to shield Navarro from the congressional subpoena.
The House, controlled by Democrats, voted to hold him in contempt and referred the matter to the Justice Department for prosecution. The U.S. attorney in Washington then criminally charged him with two counts of contempt.
Prosecutors alleged during the one-day trial last year that Navarro "acted like he was above the law" when he did not comply with the committee's request. His attorneys unsuccessfully urged Mehta, the judge, to allow Navarro to argue that Trump instructed him to assert executive privilege and deny the congressional request.
Federal prosecutor John Crabb told Mehta during Thursday's sentencing hearing that Navarro "thumbed his nose at the committee" and had "utter disregard" for its work.
He pushed back on Navarro's claims that the charges against him were politically motivated. "This prosecution is not the result of partisan politics. This is a righteous prosecution," Crabb said.
Navarro's attorney, Stanley Woodward, pushed for leniency and said the central issue remained whether Navarro thought he was using privilege as a shield.
"Dr. Navarro is the first former senior presidential advisor to be prosecuted. This case will be used as a roadmap for future investigations," Woodward said. "He asserted executive privilege because he believed he was duty-bound."
The defense attorney said Navarro asked the House committee to resolve the issue of executive privilege with Trump before he would testify.
During an at-times contentious exchange, Meha told Woodward that Navarro declined to retain legal counsel to guide him through the privilege claims when he received the subpoena, which the judge said likely resulted in the charges being brought against him. Mehta took issue with Navarro's decision to make public comments and writings about the 2020 election while still refusing to comply.
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Sep 7, 2023 · WASHINGTON — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was convicted Thursday of criminal contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the plot...
Sep 7, 2023 · Former Trump aide Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to co-operate with an inquiry into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election result....
