Former Trump financial adviser Peter Navarro stated he has been subpoenaed to testify earlier than a federal grand jury this week and switch over documents associated to the Jan. 6 riot, together with “any communications with formal President Trump and/or his counsel or representative.”
Navarro made the claim in a lawsuit he filed Tuesday against the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The complaint, which Navarro shared with NBC News ahead of its filing in Washington. D.C. federal court, says the committee’s own subpoena to him is “illegal and unenforceable” and should be thrown out by a judge.
The House voted to refer Navarro to the Department of Justice on a criminal contempt of Congress charge last month after he snubbed the House committee’s subpoena for testimony and documents.
In his 88-page lawsuit, first reported by The New York Times, Navarro stated that final week “two FBI particular brokers banged loudly on my door within the early morning hours to current me with a fruit of the toxic tree grand jury subpoena” commanding that he testify before and hand documents over to a grand jury on Thursday.
Among Navarro’s authorized arguments within the submitting is that he cannot be compelled to talk as a result of former President Donald Trump has not waived govt privilege about their communications. That argument has been mocked by members of the House panel, who’ve famous that Navarro has publicly boasted about plans to upend the 2020 election outcomes, and even printed a guide final 12 months wherein he referred to the plan because the ‘‘Green Bay Sweep.’’ Navarro stated his technique “was designed as the ‘last, best chance to snatch a stolen election from the Democrats’ jaws of deceit.’’’
Navarro said the plan was to have lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate the electoral results from six swing states in the hope of having Congress declare the results to be in dispute. That would set the stage for the House to select the president based on each congressional delegation getting one vote. Since Republicans controlled more state delegations than Democrats, Navarro’s plan assumed that Trump would receive a second term in office. Navarro has said that Trump was “on board with the strategy.”
It’s unclear which grand jury subpoenaed Navarro. Last month, Ali Alexander, who helped organize a series of pro-Trump events in November and December of 2020 after President Joe Biden won the election, said he’d been cooperating with a federal grand jury seeking information linked to rallies held by Trump supporters in Washington.