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This is the former Minister of Commerce Peter Navarro, who, like former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, has refused to collaborate with the Committee of the House of Representatives that tries to establish responsibilities in the violent takeover of the seat of the Legislative Power on the 6th of January 2021.
A Trade adviser to former US President Donald Trump, Peter Navarro, 72, was charged with contempt for not attending the summons of the panel in charge of the investigation of the assault on the Capitol and for refusing to provide the documents that this body requested. He was arrested while trying to board a plane in Washington bound for Tennessee.
Another former Trump aide, Steve Bannon, was also charged with contempt last November and appeared in court, before which he pleaded not guilty.
Two other advisers, Dan Scavino and Mark Meadows, were also held in contempt last April, but the Justice Department has not yet proceeded to file charges against them.
Navarro describes the Committee as “false” and the prosecutors as “despicable”
FBI agents led Navarro out of the airport in handcuffs for a later court appearance. The criminal charge could carry a sentence of between one and 12 months in prison.
But the former economics professor charged in the hearing against the execution of the measure against him and accused the House Committee of “false” and the prosecutors of “despicable”.
Navarro assured that the action was “a preventive blow” by the Prosecutor’s Office before a lawsuit he filed last Tuesday against Representative Nancy Pelosi and Washington prosecutor Matthew M. Graves, to combat what he called the “militarization of investigative powers congressional”.
The former adviser refused to attend the questioning, arguing that his “hands were tied”, after Trump invoked executive privilege regarding the facts investigated.
The man behind Trump’s unsubstantiated claims against the election
Peter Navarro would have played a fundamental role in preparing the violent assault on Capitol Hill to prevent the transfer of power, including calling on legislators to join the efforts to ignore the elections in which Joe Biden was the winner.
He was the author of a lengthy report cited by Trump as proof of massive fraud that according to the president was “more than enough” evidence to overturn Biden’s victory proclamation, even though it contained unsupported data.
The House Committee is expected to begin a series of six hearings next week, laying out the results of more than 1,000 witness interviews and trying to shed light on the implications of the violent insurrection.
with AP
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