Navarro is set to go on trial next week on charges stemming his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee.
Navarro, who has written and spoken extensively about his role in efforts to reverse former president Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat, is set to go on trial in the contempt case next week in U.S. District Court in Washington. The charges stem from his refusal toissued by the now-disbanded bipartisan committee months before its televised hearings on the Capitol riot last summer and fall.
Since Navarro’s indictment in June 2022, Mehta has repeatedly cited a lack of evidence regarding the purported conversations with Trump, which Navarro said occurred after he received the subpoena. Navarro has produced nothing in writing from Trump, nor has Trump publicly corroborated his account.
of Congress for defying the committee’s demands for testimony and documents. The indictment in his case mirrored the one against Navarro, whose White House tenure spanned the entirety of the Trump administration.In media interviews and in a book he wrote, Navarro has said he worked with Bannon on a plan to keep Trump in power by enlisting Trump loyalists in Congress to delay and eventually deny certification of Biden’s electoral win.
“Had the President issued a similar letter to Defendant, the record here would look very different,” Mehta wrote in January this year, when he denied Navarro’s motion to dismiss the contempt charges based on his purported conversations with Trump.“Defendant has failed to come forward with any evidence to support the claimed assertion of privilege,” Mehta said in his January decision. “And, because the claimed assertion of privilege is unproven, Defendant cannot avoid prosecution for contempt.
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