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Former adviser to former President Donald Trump says that he isn’t interested in Trump pardoning him should he return to the White House.
“I will not give the Supreme Court any excuse to duck what is otherwise a landmark constitutional case regarding the separation of powers and executive privilege,” Navarro said to The Wall Street Journal. He was making a reference to his appeal that is currently before a federal appeals court. Navarro is currently serving a four-month sentence on a contempt of Congress conviction for not cooperating with the House panel investigating the January 6, 2021, storming of the United States Capitol.
Navarro is the first White House official in American history to be sentenced to prison for contempt.
“I have no regrets,” declared Navarro. “I didn’t choose this fight, this fight chose me.”
While Navarro doesn’t want to receive a pardon, the former president is willing to bring Navarro back into the fold.
“I would absolutely have Peter back. This outrageous behavior by the Democrats should not have happened,” Trump declared in a statement sent to the WSJ. (Navarro said he wasn’t looking for a job but would consider one “if the boss needs me.”)
The January 6 committee was composed of seven Democrat officials and two Republican officials, which includes former Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney, who was unseated in a primary election in 2022 to a Trump-endorsed challenger.At the time, the panel wanted to grill Navarro partly because detailed a strategy in a book for getting then-Vice President Mike Pence to halt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Navarro is currently imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution Miami, which is designed for male inmates. Navarro is a staunch economic nationalist who played an integral role in advising Trump to pursue a tariff war against China during his presidency.
The fact that Navarro is serving prison time just demonstrates how anti-Trummp forces view economic nationalists as existential threats. The fact of the matter is that, despite Trump’s flaws, his nationalist movement of immigration restriction and trade restriction was a direct challenge to the neoliberal order.
While Trump can’t be so easily taken down, his lieutenants are very much fair game. This should serve as a reminder of how primitive and brutish politics is becoming in the post-American US.
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