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Federal prosecutors said he "chose allegiance to former President Donald Trump over the rule of law".

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now for that scumbag Bannon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah in fact the list is long

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I don’t understand why executive privilege is even a thing. It is an absurdly authoritarian concept that the president should be immune to oversight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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Click here to see the summaryPeter Navarro, a former senior trade adviser to Donald Trump, has been sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress.

In a sentencing memo earlier this month, prosecutors argued that Navarro, "like the rioters at the Capitol, put politics, not country, first, and stonewalled Congress's investigation".

In his 2021 book, In Trump Time, Navarro said he was the architect of a strategy to challenge the 2020 election results, claiming widespread voter fraud.

The House committee said Navarro's claims of massive ballot fraud had been exposed as baseless by state and local officials.

But the judge ruled that there was no evidence that Mr Trump had requested that, or that executive privilege could have permitted Navarro to ignore the committee's summons.

Former Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon was convicted of two counts of contempt for refusing the House committee's legal summons in July 2022.


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