The judge in ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro's contempt of Congress case has ruled that Navarro has failed to show a formal assertion of executive privilege by Trump.

The judge overseeing Peter Navarro’s contempt of Congress case ruled in a pre-trial hearing Wednesday that the former Trump adviser “has not met his burden” to show a formal assertion of executive privilege by former president Donald Trump.

Navarro will stand trial on criminal contempt of Congress next week for defying subpoenas issued to him by the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a lengthy ruling, Judge Amit Mehta said that Navarro did not provide evidence that Trump asserted executive privilege specific to the Jan 6. committee’s subpoena.

    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      For me, it’s been tough waiting for the grownups to get their plans completely finished to be able to crush these people.

      The morons took the quiet as a permission to keep spewing out incriminating evidence.

      I kept screaming NOW!, but the grownups said not now, they are still digging their own graves.

      So this is really fun