Peter Navarro, former Trump White House adviser, subpoenaed by Jan. 6 committee
WASHINGTON — The House select committee investigating events surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro Wednesday.
Navarro, who served as a senior trade adviser under the former president, was allegedly involved in efforts to delay the certification of the 2020 presidential election results during a special session of Congress and sought to change the results, according to a committee press release.
Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Navarro “hasn’t been shy” about his role in attempting to overturn the election results and even referenced Trump’s support for his plans in interviews and in his own book.
“Mr. Navarro appears to have information directly relevant to the Select Committee’s investigation into the causes of the January 6th attack on the Capitol, Thompson said in a statement. “More than 500 witnesses have provided information in our investigation, and we expect Mr. Navarro to do so as well.”
The committee is seeking documents and information pertaining to plans implemented with former White House chief of staff Steve Bannon and others to delay certification of and ultimately change the election results.
Navarro also documented in his 2021 book “In Trump Time: My Journal of America’s Plague Year” a plan known as the “Green Bay Sweep,” and described it as the “last, best chance to snatch a stolen election from the Democrats’ ‘jaws of deceit.'”
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In a statement released Wednesday, Navarro said the subpoena is part of a “partisan witch hunt” and said Trump has “invoked Executive Privilege.” A federal judge blocked Trump’s request to block a release of documents to the committee last year.