People have asked me why I have remained relatively quiet about the legal issue and targeting of Peter Navarro by a weaponized DOJ and Congress. I will explain in greater detail after the news from today.
Peter Navarro was a former adviser to President Trump and the lead of the coronavirus task force. Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a short opinion rejecting Navarro’s effort to have the Supreme Court intervene and stay his sentence.
Mr. Navarro was charged with contempt of Congress, and was prosecuted by the DOJ and convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the J6 House Select Committee investigating the protest at the U.S. Capitol. [Note, most of you know I received a similar subpoena from them, so I have a slightly different perspective than most.]
[…] Navarro spoke Tuesday morning in a strip mall in West Miami near the prison where he will serve four months. “I will walk proudly in there to do my time,” Navarro said. “I will gather strength from this: Donald John Trump is the nominee.” Navarro called the case an “unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers.” (media story) WATCH:
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I have a great deal of sympathy for Navarro. I firmly believe he was unfairly targeted by the J6 committee and a weaponized DOJ who were looking for any opportunity to target people in Donald Trump’s orbit – including Navarro and Steve Bannon. I regard Navarro as a really awesome ally, and functionally very smart and apt at the responsibilities he held in the White House. Navarro is a good man.
Navarro was charged with failure to provide testimony and documents to Congress. Navarro argued that executive privilege covered his refusal to provide testimony and documents.
The executive privilege that covers private conversation is held by President Trump and cannot be, should not be, waived by any advisor to the president. However, there is a key element in the executive privilege aspect that is mostly overlooked by righteous pundits and conservative analysts as it pertains specifically to Navarro.
Notice how there has been no report of Peter Navarro asking President Trump or his legal counselors if they would agree to waive privilege in regard to his conversations and communication with the office of the president. Apparently, Navarro never asked POTUS or the legal team if compliance with the subpoena was diligent from the perspective of the executive. The absence of this approach is key and is part of my angst with the Navarro targeting.
Navarro never held any information, content, communication with, or conversation with President Trump that represented a threat to the president. There simply wasn’t any conversation that would put the office of the presidency at risk, nor Donald Trump himself, if he gave testimony about conversation, while being represented by his lawyers and the legal representative of President Trump’s stood by to monitor the testimony and guard the executive privilege.
Secondly, the documents could be -and likely were- obtained by the J6 committee through electronic retrieval on their own. On the document issue, it’s almost certain the committee issued subpoenas to email providers, cell phone providers, etc. and had the documentary information anyway. The J6 lawyers would be looking for Navarro to filter, delete, hide or ¹change a document…. not as much the content therein. The legal risk within documents, assuming that Navarro never advocated for anything illegal, is simply a risk from non-production. That’s it. [SEE, Trump #1 RULE: If you don’t want documents used against you, don’t create them.]
[¹Remember, that’s what burned George Papadopoulos]
Again, the J6 people can -I would guarantee did- retrieve every document they wanted; the non-production by the target is a silly hill to die on. The truth has no agenda, nor can the truth be a weapon, if the truth of the documents did not present a legal threat by themselves. Considering that Navarro is *not* the principal holder of the privilege, this non-production is like shooting yourself in the foot.
Had Navarro simply asked the White House and President Trump legal counsel about whether he should comply or not, and then put the burden of executive privilege on them, it would be the White House and the full weight of the Office of the Presidency defending Navarro from testimony and representing Trump’s legal interests.
I hope people can grasp what I am saying.
Ask the principal, that’s Donald Trump, if he wants to apply executive privilege. If he does not, then give honest testimony about facts, conversations and events that present no legal threat to the principal. The only reason to avoid this simple process is – I believe in this instance – the pride, ego and a willingness to enter into a fight where all the power is aligned against you.
I understand why being targeted by a weaponized government makes a person feel intensely angered and would trigger the fight instinct. However, prudence, calm thoughts and reasonable intelligent thinking can ensure that BRUTAL HONESTY, which is to say carefully applied and strategic “extreme compliance,” is the best weapon against the bastards.
Peter Navarro is a good man, a very good man, who unfortunately made some strategic legal mistakes. I have a great deal of sympathy for Peter Navarro and feel he has been very unjustly targeted.
Also….. STUDY THIS GUY!
Background PART 1
Background PART 2
Don’t hate me until you have read both parts.
Love to all,
Sundance
Here’s the only difference between Holder and Navarro…..
“Since the Justice Department would have to seek an indictment of Holder – a department he [Holder] oversees as attorney general – no criminal charges will be brought against him [Holder].
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/06/holder-held-in-contempt-of-congress-077988
Outstanding Sundance. Thank you for that insight. It REALLY opened my eyes…
Your analysis is , again, brilliant. Thank you for the thoughtful perspective. Prayers for our MAGA Brother, Peter Navarro. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👊👊❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
I get your point, and thank you, Sundance. I was curious as to why he was in this pickle. I admire the man.
I think, though, that for most Americans, when we see an innocent person going to jail for political purposes, our blood boils. The nuance of the situation doesn’t matter to most people.
It’s what we see every day – an attack on the economy, an attack on freedom, an attack on free speech, an attack on gun rights, an attack on land and water rights, an attack on growing your own food, attacks on our children, and it just goes on and on and on. Regular Americans are seething, and preparing for an economic collapse, civil war, attacks from illegal immigrant criminals, food shortages, attacks from all the agenices (IRS, FBI, USDA, FDA, EPA, etc) etc etc etc.
I feel bad for Navarro, but I feel worse for the rest of us. Anxiety is pretty high in the country, whether that be intentional or not. The Lefty/Communist/Marxist/Globalist nutjobs best watch themselves. They think they can control an out of control fire should it light. They will not be able to. So, every stupid thing they do… is well, just stupid.
The “government” needs to check themselves.
IN WHICH CASE… so should The Supremes… I wonder what the bottom line requirements are for their decisions. Does a decision harm or help everyday Americans. Just curious. I feel the Highest Court in the land, are letting us down, generally speaking.
I think they are tossing coins from day to day. Inconsistency unavoidably obvious.
Unions serve as an effective money laundering scheme to finance Democrat operations as well as a means to control large groups of people.
Or, call me stupid, it is a chess move, with benefits realized down the road.
Thanks SD, for “boldly going”,…!
Imagine the “Oh Chit” look on the faces of the Dumb/Dumber DOJ minions as they realized their faux “Wrecked Farreri” subpoena had blown up in their faces and revealed the illegal, unconstitutional prying actions of the Deep State & Big Brother.
Bravo, Sundance, some days chicken,… not just feathers.
Peter Navarro mentions a female 1/6 attorney who “wrote letter to Bill Barr to show her NeverTrump credentials”…Who was that?
Sundance,
Hate you, are you kidding? You have opened the eyes of untold tens of thousands/hundreds of thousands and more of us. It is those you expose that wish to deceive and enslave us that hate you. NO, God Bless you for helping to set us free and see now the tyranny that was hiding in plain site. Now once seen, cannot be unseen. Thank You.
From Born Free American Woman comment prior:
“I get your point, and thank you, Sundance. I was curious as to why he was in this pickle. I admire the man.
I think, though, that for most Americans, when we see an innocent person going to jail for political purposes, our blood boils. The nuance of the situation doesn’t matter to most people.”
I suspect some of the decision to fight stemmed from the above fact. A high profile target gets headlines where Jan 6th relative unknowns will get none. Taking one for the team, so to speak, is much more likely to expose the corruption to people that still consume corporate media, particularly those that know something’s wrong but can’t quite see it yet.
So the correct follow up question is this: why did NAVARRO choose that fight?
Just because we wouldn’t choose that fight doesn’t necessarily mean he made a mistake. He likely has vastly more resources than any of us, has much to offer with the fight (see above), and has friends in high places (especially Trump).
Could be more to this motivation than initially discussed. I personally doubt it was as simple as a legal mistake.
To amplify and clarify my key point: some fights are fought solely on principle, knowing you personally may lose. We are discussing that every day here and have been for years. Each person’s line in the sand and unique opportunity to forward the resistance/cause is different. I suspect Navarro’s opportunity is what we’ve deemed a mistake. But maybe I’m wrong.
Principles matter. Some matter more than others. Some a LOT more to some than others.
Outstanding, yet again, Sundance, and have also shared
I think you are right, and his attitude is understandable. I so very badly was to see the evil bastards responsible for the pain and torture of so many good people bankrupted and jailed.
Prison is no place for a good man like Peter Navarro.
Arlo Guthrie: “There was mother-rapers father-stabbers father-rapers! Father-rapers sittin’ right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean …”
…in other words, Democrats!
“Again, the J6 people can -I would guarantee did- retrieve every document they wanted”
So why let the J6 committee twist the testimony that’s a nothing burger? Would his testimony be held in the secret dungeon and then wiped clean to never be seen? Then he would destroyed by them and the media.
He was sent to prison on a misdemeanor.
Multiple Choice:
Why is the fraud cabal so desperate to hide the election fraud and persecute all whistleblowers?
A: Will Be Used Again to Eliminate Trump in 2024
B: Direct Evidence implicating a multitude of corrupt high level officials leading to their incarceration
C: High risk of civil unrest if too many citizens find out all at once jeopardizing the completion of the New World Order Reset
D: All of the above
D
Navarro was Garret Ziegler’s boss at the WH
“On my former boss getting indicted:
I told you last January about all of this. The Junta requires complete submission to the regime. They are coming after me. They want to indict me next.
Pray for all us who publicly fought against the soft coup when it mattered. Everyone else on the “Right” who sat on their hands and took job interviews in December in the WH just for some corporate job at a gay consulting house … they can kiss my ass.”
FYI – Just saw where Fox cut Peter off to fact check him. Fox is really for STUPID people. Don’t believe ’em.
Thank you Sundance for sharing a ray of sunshine (Hope), and wisdom for us in Nebuchadnezzar’s lions den!
What about the fact that this so-called “Committee” is illegitimate?
Of course, Victoria Nuland just on the air gloating with a mischievous grin …something really bad will be happening to Russians soon …….was just a coincidence, right?