Navarro maintains his refusal to testify or provide documents demanded by a congressional subpoena was sparked by Trump’s invocation of executive privilege
Former U.S. president Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro will head to trial on Tuesday on two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress, after refusing to testify or provide documents to the U.S. congressional investigation of the attack on the Capitol.on trade issues and also served on the COVID-19 task force, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The committee ultimately issued the findings from its investigation in December 2022 without getting the chance to interview Navarro. He was not able to get Trump to testify and has only produced one letter written by Trump’s attorney after Navarro’s indictment that claimed Navarro had an obligation to assert privilege.
He ultimately rejected Navarro’s request to cite his phone call as evidence during the trial that Trump invoked privilege, finding Navarro had failed to provide adequate details about the substance of the call.
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