This ruling showed Peter Navarro just how low he is on Donald Trump’s totem pole. (via The ReidOut Blog)
dispensed with several arguments Navarro has made since he first began spurning the committee — namely, that Trump claimed executive privilege over Navarro’s potential testimony, and that prosecutors were unfairly targeting Navarro because they didn’t charge other Trump associates who’d refused to testify. Mehta’s decision paves the way for Navarro’s trial to begin on Jan. 30, as planned.
In the ruling, Mehta rattled off a list of court cases that undermine Navarro’s argument that any president — let alone a former president, like Trump — is entitled to blanket claims of executive privilege.
The judge went on to explain that Navarro’s claim that Trump had told him in a private “conversation” to assert executive privilege is effectively worthless in the absence of evidence to support it. Mehta contrasted Navarro’s situation with Team Trump figures who have spurned Jan. 6 subpoenas without facing criminal charges. Similar to last September, when he, the judge noted in Thursday’s decision that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino both received letters from Trump’s lawyers instructing them to assert privilege, and ultimately presented those letters to the Jan. 6 committee as reason why they didn’t have to testify.
“Had the President issued a similar letter to Defendant, the record here would look very different,” Mehta wrote.
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