Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former Trump senior adviser Peter Navarro
The US House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has subpoenaed Donald Trump’s former White House senior adviser Peter Navarro, a key player in the former president’s effort to overturn his election defeat.
The announcement by the committee on Wednesday suggests the panel is edging ever closer to examining potential culpability for Trump.
The committee said it is seeking records and deposition testimony from Navarro, who helped finalize the scheme to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win with political operatives at the Willard hotel in Washington DC.
“Navarro appears to have information directly relevant to the select committee’s investigation,” Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the select committee, said. “He hasn’t been shy about his role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and has even discussed the former president’s support for those plans.”
Meanwhile, Navarro said Trump had claimed his communications while in the White House are protected by executive privilege.
"President Trump has invoked Executive Privilege; and it is not my privilege to waive," he said in a statement.
Navarro has, in media interviews and his book, said he helped coordinate an effort - "the Green Bay Sweep" to bring to a halt certification of Biden's victory and keep Trump, a Republican, in power.
"We spent a lot of time lining up over 100 congressmen, including some senators," Navarro told the Daily Beast in December.
"It was a perfect plan," he added.
The committee is planning to release an interim report in the summer and a final report in the fall, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
The panel gave Navarro until 23 February to produce documents detailed in the subpoena, and ordered him to appear for a deposition on 2 March.
On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters occupied the US Capitol while lawmakers were in the process of reviewing the certification of state electors which indicated Biden's victory. Some among the crowd clashed with police, and some made threats to beat up a number of Democratic lawmakers. Some also inflicted damage on parts of the Capitol building.
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