An appeals court denied Trump White House official Peter Navarro ‘s bid to stave off his jail sentence on contempt of Congress charges Thursday.
Navarro has been ordered to report to a federal prison by March 19. He argued he should stay free as he appeals his conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
But a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. disagreed, finding his appeal wasn’t likely to reverse his conviction. His attorneys declined to comment but have previously indicated he would appeal to the Supreme Court.
Navarro was the second Trump aide convicted of contempt of Congress charges. Former White House adviser Steve Bannon previously received a four-month sentence but a different judge allowed him to stay free pending appeal.
Navarro was found guilty of defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House Jan. 6 committee. He served as a White House trade adviser under then-President Donald Trump and later promoted the Republican’s baseless claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Navarro has said he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because Trump had invoked executive privilege. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta barred him from making that argument at trial, however, finding that he didn’t show Trump had actually invoked it.
(AP)
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Navalny – US edition.
5475: Are u totally clueless??? Navarro WANTS to be a martyr. The judge bent over backwards to provide him an opportunity to demonstrate that the President had invoked some type of privilege and directed him not to respond but Navarro never provided a letter from Trump or any other evidence of when or how there had been any invocation of executive privilege.
@Gadolhadorah
Thanks for further proving my point, Navalny also wanted to be a martyr. He was poisoned overseas & despite that he came back to the wolfs, no difference there.