Peter Navarro, Trump’s former trade adviser and a key Big Lie booster, has been harboring hundreds of government records that he’s appealing in federal court to keep. The Justice Department sued him over the records last August. Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled against Navarro. But Navarro isn’t giving up.
Give it up, Ron…
These rightwing buttheads ALWAYS want to commonize the costs (government salary + perks) and then privatize the profits (claim ownership of docs made during gov’t service). It’s the basis of Republican corruption writ large across society, from public works to sports stadiums to defense contracting to healthcare spending, ad nauseum.
Ron, just to clarify, would you specify what criminal actions you are fearful of being accused in? And why you believe you are in need of immunity?
And why your emails were encrypted in the first place?
If I understand this correctly, he has no problem turning the records over IF he is granted immunity. Consciousness of guilt much?
Peter Navarro is the John Bolton of G. Gordon Liddys.
“I won’t give you the records because they would incriminate me”
isn’t exactly a ringing plea of innocence. And where’s the media howl of outrage that HIZ EMAILZ!!! were kept hidden on a private server? And not at all secured? Also, just how much classified information is in them?
Ah the old “I don’t want to do this because it would be bad for me” argument. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for 'em.
I’m waiting (impatiently) for the media and Ds to treat these criminal Rs the way that Rs and the media treat any D who is embroiled in even a whiff of scandal. That is Ds are guilty as charged based solely on allegations no matter how flimsy, while Rs can lie, take the 5th, and be complete crybabies and scream WITH HUNT and are forever given the benefit of the doubt.
As Trump himself said, anyone who takes the 5th must be guilty. While that’s not conclusive in a court of law, and jurors might be instructed to draw no conclusions from a defendant who choses not to testify, those jurors are under no obligation to blindly accept a defense put forward by the defendant’s lawyers which the defendant won’t state directly for fear of cross-examination.
But the REAL impact would be the perception of the public at large on all those Trumpers taking the 5th of relying of executive privilege or other privileges not to tell the truth about an attack on the country’s principles. Ds and the media should ALWAYS chyron them with their taking the 5th or refusing to testify and how it’s perfectly reasonable for the public to conclude that they are co-conspirators – even after the fact – and have something to hide. That’s certainly how Rs would frame any D claiming ANY privilege, while demanding the media report it that way.
May he soon fall from his tree!
“Currently, the records in Defendant’s possession are missing from the collection of presidential records to which special access requesters are now entitled,” the prosecutors wrote. “That alone is contrary to the public interest.”
Could entities that are requesting the material that Navarro is now hiding sue him directly? I mean wouldn’t discovery be a hoot?
'He also argued that “production of such records could potentially incriminate him in future criminal actions."
!? You can argue that in court? “I ask the court for relief from this subpoena because if I turn over the docs it’ll show where I buried the bodies”?? What the heck?
Tell me you’ve committed a crime, without telling me you’ve committed a crime.
Last summer, Navarro’s legal team told the Justice Department that he was in possession of about hundreds of emails on a ProtonMail account from his time in the White House. But he’s refused to turn them over to the government, unless the DOJ offers him a “grant of immunity” in exchange.
emphasis mine
Why is this a civil issue?
"He also argued that “production of such records could potentially incriminate him in future criminal actions.”
So under this logic, if you rob somebody you do not have to return what you steal because doing would incriminate you?
Navarro not only looks but now thinks like Daffy Duck.
Probably not so much classified, as highly inculpatory.
This asshole again??
Is there something I’m missing? Ron? I thought his name was Peter?
@emiliano4 same question?
I think that is exactly what the DOJ is doing. The “entities” are represented by the DOJ, who sued Navarro for return of the emails last August.