The former Trump White House adviser was charged with two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to provide papers and for failing to provide testimony to the House Jan. 6 Committee.
trial on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee starts Tuesday, when jury selection begins in Washington.Navarro’s bid to dodge contempt charges. Navarro previously claimed former President Donald Trump involved executive privilege over his potential testimony before the congressional panel that investigated events in the lead-up to and during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
During a pretrial hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta found no evidence for Navarro’s claim that the former president advised him to invoke executive privilege, which protects presidential deliberation. Mehta cited three pillars of invoking executive privilege: that it must be invoked by the president or an authorized representative of his or hers, that it must be made after personal consideration by the president or an authorized representative, and that it cannot be validly asserted by what Mehta called “mere acquiescence” or a “blanket assertion of privilege.”
Trump did not submit any evidence either asserting he had claimed executive privilege in Navarro’s case before the court. Prior to his ruling allowing Navarro’s trial to proceed, Mehta noted at a hearing last week that Navarro did not cite any language that he alleged Trump used when discussing matters of executive privilege with him. “Even if there aren’t magic words,” Mehta said, there should be “some words” or a “smoke signal” about what Trump said.
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