Former Trump trade adviser heads to trial over his refusing to comply with the select committee.
In media interviews and a 2021 memoir, Navarro has detailed what he said were his and Bannon’s roles in a convoluted effort to keep Trump in power by delaying and ultimately halting the formal count of electoral votes in Congress.
He has said he declined to cooperate with the bipartisan committee because Trump, even though he was no longer president, broadly invoked executive privilege in conversations with him, instructing Navarro not to testify about matters the House committee was examining.In a blow to Navarro, U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta voiced skepticism about the purported conversations, which are uncorroborated, and ruled last week that Navarroexecutive privilege as a defense at his trial.
The scheme that Navarro has described, which he said Bannon dubbed the “Green Bay Sweep,” a football reference to an end run, called for dragging out the process of formally counting electoral votes in a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump loyalists in the House and Senate would contest the ballots from six swing states that Biden won. Each challenge would prompt four hours of debate, resulting in a nationally televised, 24-hour spectacle.
In the Rolling Stone interview, published Jan. 3, 2022, Navarro was asked if he had heard from the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack. “I have gotten no communication whatsoever from them,” he said. “It’s my view that they simply do not want to hear anything I have to say, because it is so contrary to their narrative. Their narrative rests on the premise that President Trump wanted to instigate violence to overthrow the election.
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