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Former Trump aide Peter Navarro says he’s been subpoenaed by grand jury for Jan. 6 documents

White Home advisor Peter Navarro leaves the West Wing carrying a poster board displaying claims of voting irregularity on the White Home in Washington, January 15, 2021.

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Former Trump financial adviser Peter Navarro stated he has been subpoenaed to testify earlier than a federal grand jury later this week and switch over paperwork associated to the Jan. 6 riot, together with “any communications with formal President Trump and/or his counsel or consultant.”

Navarro made the declare in a draft copy of a lawsuit he is planning to file this week in opposition to the Home committee investigating the assault on the U.S. Capitol. The go well with, which Navarro shared with NBC Information, says the committee’s own subpoena to him is “illegal and unenforceable” and ought to be thrown out by a decide.

The Home voted to refer Navarro to the Division of Justice on a legal contempt of Congress cost final month after he snubbed the Home committee’s subpoena for testimony and paperwork.

In his 88-page draft lawsuit, first reported by The New York Times, Navarro stated that final week “two FBI particular brokers banged loudly on my door within the early morning hours to current me with a fruit of the toxic tree grand jury subpoena” commanding that he testify earlier than and hand paperwork over to a grand jury on Thursday.

As a result of the federal subpoena relies on the Home subpoena, Navarro argues it is tainted and ought to be thrown out by the decide as effectively. He didn’t instantly reply when requested if he would adjust to the grand jury subpoena.

Amongst Navarro’s authorized arguments within the submitting is that he cannot be compelled to talk as a result of former President Donald Trump has not waived govt privilege about their communications. That argument has been mocked by members of the Home panel, who’ve famous that Navarro  has publicly boasted about plans to upend the 2020 election outcomes, and even printed a guide final yr by which he referred to the plan because the ”Green Bay Sweep.” Navarro stated his technique “was designed because the ‘final, greatest probability to grab a stolen election from the Democrats’ jaws of deceit.”’

Navarro stated the plan was to have lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate the electoral outcomes from six swing states within the hope of getting Congress declare the outcomes to be in dispute. That may set the stage for the Home to pick out the president based mostly on every congressional delegation getting one vote. Since Republicans managed extra state delegations than Democrats, Navarro’s plan assumed that Trump would obtain a second time period in workplace. Navarro has stated that Trump was “on board with the technique.”

It is unclear which grand jury subpoenaed Navarro. Final month, Ali Alexander, who helped set up a collection of pro-Trump occasions in November and December of 2020 after President Joe Biden gained the election, stated he’d been cooperating with a federal grand jury looking for info linked to rallies held by Trump supporters in Washington.

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