Peter Navarro, who served as a top White House trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, claimed Monday that he received a subpoena from the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to turn over documents related to the Jan. 6 assault.
to the Justice Department for failing to cooperate with the panel's demand.
According to Navarro's lawsuit, the grand jury subpoena commands him to comply with the separate subpoena issued by the House panel in February.
Navarro goes on to argue the U.S. attorney in Washington must negotiate his appearance before the grand jury with Trump and his attorneys, as he is bound by executive privilege invoked by the former president over information related to the Jan. 6 assault. Trump himself has sought to block the release of White House records related to the Jan. 6 insurrection from the National Archives and Records Administration, citing executive privilege. But in January, the Supreme CourtPresident Biden has waived executive privilege over a slew of White House documents sought by the House select committee, but Navarro plans to ask the federal district court in Washington to declare the president does not have the legal authority to do so.
While Navarro claims there was an"abundance of fraud and election irregularities" in the 2020 presidential election, dozens of legal challenges to election results in key battleground states were rebuffed by federal judges.
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