Peter Navarro pushes a screed against Jared Kushner in order to distract from the inevitable conviction for contempt of Congress, likely because he wasn’t able to leverage $2 billion from anyone like the Saudis. This also reminds us that 300 members of the GOP were seditionists because they were in on the “fake electors scheme” in 2020.
Navarro has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is scheduled to go to trial in November.
Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro told federal agents to “get the f–k out of here” when they tried to serve him with a subpoena days before his arrest on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to appear before the House panel investigating last year’s Capitol riot, the Justice Department claimed in court documents.
In its Monday filing, the DOJ sought to refute Navarro’s claim that it had failed to provide him with needed discovery materials and said the former White House trade adviser misrepresented “the facts and his posture toward the government at the time of his arrest.”
Prosecutors said that “contrary” to Navarro’s statements, “it is not law enforcement’s normal practice to ask combative, unrepresented subjects to self-surrender.”
According to the documents, agents went to Navarro’s home days before he was indicted by a federal grand jury.
“When the case agents attempted to interview him and serve him with a subpoena at his residence, the Defendant at first refused to open the door and then, when he did, told the agents to ‘get the f*** out of here,'” the court papers say.
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Take credit for what worked. Shift the blame for what didn’t. Run to Daddy-in-law whenever the big, bad chief of staff got in his way. That was Jared Kushner’s modus operandi during the long four years I had to serve alongside the man most responsible for the loss of the Trump White House.
Kushner came to the D.C. swamp on the coattails of his wife as nothing more than a young and rich, run-of-the-mill liberal New York Democrat with a worldview totally orthogonal to the president he was supposed to serve. Yet, within the West Wing, Kushner considered himself to be the ultimate “Trump whisperer.”
In private, Jared would boast about how he had brought the president back from whatever he considered the brink to be that day—whether it was securing the southern border, leaving NAFTA, or slapping tariffs on China. Never mind that he was derailing, deterring, and delaying Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda in real-time and at great political and economic costs.
Jared’s “neuter the boss” role quickly became a source of friction between us. He believed that I, more than anyone inside the West Wing, could “rile up” the president to take actions that were, in fact, totally consistent with Trump’s central campaign promises. But as this particular Wall Street transactionalist liked to say (and it always made me cringe): “That was the campaign. This is reality.”
In the cold light of a January West Wing day, there was simply no other explanation than nepotism to account for how this decidedly unqualified Clown Prince wound up sitting as a modern-day Rasputin at the right hand of Trump.
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Steve Bannon: Also, if Trump is losing by 10 or 11 o’clock at night, it’s gonna be even crazier. No, because he’s gonna sit right there and say that they stole it. I’m directing the attorney general to shut down all ballot places in all 50 states. It’s gonna be nuts. He’s not going out easy. Trump, if Biden’s winning, Trump is gonna do some crazy shit. I mean, it’s gonna get.
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