{"id":590240,"date":"2023-09-07T23:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ex-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-convicted-of-contempt-of-congress\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T23:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:13:04","slug":"ex-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-convicted-of-contempt-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ex-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-convicted-of-contempt-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro convicted of contempt of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/navarropeter_083023gn10_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Peter Navarro, a former Trump economic adviser, on Thursday was found guilty of contempt of Congress following a jury deliberation that lasted nearly five hours.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro faced two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena served by the House committee investigating the events of Jan. 6. The first charge pertained to his failure to produce documents and the second was for failing to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear for a deposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The former Trump aide stood off to the side of the defense table as the verdict was read \u2013 the same posture he maintained throughout the day-long jury trial. His face and posture remained unchanged as the verdict was read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To determine Navarro\u2019s guilt, jurors had to find that prosecutors proved four elements: Navarro was subpoenaed, the information the committee wanted from him was pertinent to its investigation, Navarro failed to comply, and his failure to comply was \u201cwillful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In closing arguments after a trial that lasted just one day following jury selection, Navarro attorney Stan Woodward again compared the government\u2019s opening arguments to a movie trailer containing all the best parts of the movie \u2013 leaving \u201cnothing\u201d of substance for the movie, or case, itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He built on the metaphor by comparing reasonable doubt to burnt popcorn. When you open a bag of burnt popcorn, you may not be able to see which pieces are burnt \u2013 but you can smell them, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The government showed no evidence as to where Navarro was the day his deposition was scheduled to take place, Woodward continued, leaving room for reasonable doubt he didn\u2019t \u201cwillfully\u201d ignore the subpoena at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we know his failure to comply \u2013 beyond reasonable doubt \u2013 was not [an] accident, inadvertence or mistake? Why didn\u2019t the government present evidence about where he was, or what he was doing?\u201d Woodward said. \u201cSomething stinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But government prosecutors countered that Navarro knew he had been ordered to appear via the subpoena. Whether he believed he had a \u201cgood excuse\u201d doesn\u2019t have bearing on the legality of his actions, they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho cares where he was? What matters is where he wasn\u2019t \u2013 and he wasn\u2019t in that room to take his deposition,\u201d Assistant U.S. Attorney John Crabb said. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t where he was legally required to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Navarro\u2019s \u201cgood excuse\u201d was executive privilege, which he has claimed former President Trump invoked, preventing him from giving information or testifying before the House Jan. 6 committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Both parties tiptoed around the issue of executive privilege throughout the trial \u2013 an argument U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta barred defense attorneys from using to prove Navarro\u2019s innocence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mehta ruled last week that Navarro\u2019s counsel failed to prove the former president invoked said privilege. The decision to invoke privilege must be made by the president, personal consideration must be involved and privilege can\u2019t be asserted by \u201cmere acquiescence,\u201d Mehta determined. The act of invoking it requires \u201caffirmative conduct,\u201d as well, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no formal invocation of executive privilege by [Trump] after personal consideration nor authorization to Mr. Navarro to invoke privilege on his behalf,\u201d Mehta said, calling defense attorneys arguments \u201cpretty weak sauce.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In his instructions to the jury, Mehta precluded the jury from viewing executive privilege as an excuse for Navarro\u2019s noncompliance with the Jan. 6 committee subpoena.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, the issue was hard to avoid, as evidence presented at trial showed Navarro repeatedly invoking purported privilege in communication with committee staffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In emails between Navarro and Daniel George, senior investigative counsel for the House Jan. 6 committee, Navarro said former President Trump had invoked executive privilege and that his \u201chands are tied.\u201d The ex-Trump advisor also suggested the committee should reach out to the former president on the issue, not him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant chose allegiance to former President Trump over compliance with the subpoena,\u201d Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi told the jury in closing remarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Woodward said the committee never reached out to Trump \u2013 a detail confirmed by George on cross-examination \u2013 and implied that Navarro\u2019s failure to comply with the subpoena therefore was not \u201cwillful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere would we be if George had contacted Trump?\u201d Woodward asked the jury \u2013 a question drawing an objection from prosecutors that was sustained by the judge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Woodward also rebuffed the idea that Navarro\u2019s allegiance to Trump played a role in his unresponsiveness to the subpoena.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is that anywhere in the evidence? We don\u2019t know that,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The government called just three witnesses in its case \u2014 all former members of the Jan. 6 committee \u2014 and the defense did not put on a case of its own. Both parties rested their cases Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Navarro is the second former Trump ally to face contempt of Congress charges. Ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress earlier this year and sentenced to four months in prison. He has not yet served that time after a judge said he could remain free pending appeal.\u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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