Peter Navarro

Peter Navarro is the second Trump aide to be arrested after defying a legal summons from the congressional committee investigating the attack.
===Sept 2023===
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro will not be able to argue before a jury at his contempt of Congress trial next week that the former president asserted privilege to shield him from a House January 6 committee subpoena, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Navarro had not met the burden to establish that Donald Trump formally granted executive privilege or testimonial immunity, US District Judge Amit P. Mehta said at a pre-trial conference.
Mehta announced the ruling after holding an evidentiary hearing Monday during which Navarro testified about alleged assertions from Trump. 
Navarro’s criminal case, which was brought by the Justice Department in June 2022,goes to trial next Tuesday. Navarro has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and Mehta’s new ruling severely hamstrings the arguments the former Trump aide will be able to present in his defense.
In a lengthy explanation of his ruling delivered from the bench Wednesday, Mehta said he concluded that either Trump himself or someone authorized to assert privilege or immunity on his behalf would have had to personally invoke the privilege for it to be validly asserted. 
The judge said Navarro had not put forward adequate evidence to show such an assertion when he was subpoenaed for testimony and documents by the House committee in February 2022.
“The privilege cannot be validly asserted by mere acquiescence,” Mehta said.
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* Peter Navarro bei de:WP (* 15. Juli 1949 in Cambridge, Massachusetts[1]) ist ein US-amerikanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und Professor für Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Paul Merage School of Business der University of California, Irvine. US-Präsident Donald Trump ernannte ihn als „Direktor für Handel und Industriepolitik“ zum Leiter eines neu geschaffenen Nationalen Handelsrats der USA … 
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