Former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress by a Washington, D.C. jury on Thursday, having failed to comply with a partisan subpoena issued by House Democrats as part of their sham investigation of the January 6th protests. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days and a maximum of one year in prison, as well as a maximum fine of $100,000.
“I have been stripped, stripped of virtually every defense by the court and yet there is some defense left and the reality here is the government has not proved his case,” Navarro told the press outside the D.C. federal courthouse prior to the jury reaching a verdict on Thursday.
“Please understand that the Biden-weaponized Department of Justice is the biggest law firm in the world. That’s what I’m fighting against.”
Navarro’s legal team argued that federal prosecutors could not conclusively show that he willfully refused to comply with the congressional subpoena. In his closing remarks Stanley Woodward, Navarro’s attorney, told jurors: “The government provided no evidence about that. Do we know that his failure to comply beyond a reasonable doubt was not the result of inadvertence, accident, or mistake?”
The Select Committee on the January 6 Attack was formed in July of 2021 when Democrats held the majority in the House of Representatives. Congressional Democrats turned the committee into an elaborate and partisan show-trial against former President Donald Trump – going so far as to hire a ‘producer’ to ensure the committee’s televised hearings had the maximum political impact. The committee was dissolved in January of this year after Republicans assumed control of the House following the 2022 mid-term elections, though GOP representatives have done little to reverse the damage done by former Speaker Pelosi’s partisan operation.
