Peter Navarro receives 4-month sentence

Prison time for Trump White House aide who admitted coup plot on live TV

Trump White House aide Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison, capping a long road from when he was first subpoenaed after an interview on “The Beat.” (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)


Green Bay Sweep (politics)

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This article is about a plot to overthrow the 2020 US Presidential election. For the American football play made famous by the Green Bay Packers, see Packers sweep.

The Green Bay Sweep is the name of a procedural strategy to attempt to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election advocated by Peter Navarro. He outlined the plot in a book published in November 2021[1] and spoke about it in multiple media interviews. It took its name from the Packers sweep, where the Green Bay Packers of the 1950s and '60s, led by Vince Lombardi, would flood a zone with blockers, allowing the football to be advanced dependably behind them. In the political iteration, devised by Steve Bannon, the Electoral College vote count would be blocked by repeated challenges to various state's vote counts by Republican members of the House and Senate favorable to Donald Trump. Each challenge could take up to two hours of debate by each chamber, individually, leading to as much of 24 hours of televised hearings.[2]

The Green Bay Sweep was intended to implement a strategy laid out by the Eastman memos for the purpose of overturning election results such that Donald J. Trump would be designated as president for a second term.

According to the plan, public pressure created by the delay would lead state legislatures in six key battleground states with Republican-dominated legislatures – Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada – to de-certify election results, with the intended outcome that Trump would have more certified electoral college votes than the election's actual winner, Joe Biden.

Trump supported the strategy,[3][4] but Pence rejected it,[5] and the plan was dependent on Pence's participation. It was difficult to pressure Pence, said Navarro, because all communication passed through his chief of staff, Marc Short, who had been president of the Koch Brothers-funded Freedom Partners.[2]

It was like the Soviet Union taking over Eastern Europe. As an Iron Koch Curtain fell over the vice president, the only way you could speak to VPOTUS was to go through Short.

—;Peter Navarro[2]
January 6, 2021
Republican legislators initially followed the plan. Recalling January 6, 2021, Navarro said that "Sen. Ted Cruz and [Arizona Rep.] Paul Gosar started the Green Bay Sweep" at 1 p.m. by challenging Arizona's election results and that over a hundred Republicans in the House and Senate were available to participate. He told this to MSNBC host Ari Melber in a January 4, 2022 interview.[6]

After proceedings were interrupted by the January 6 Capitol attack, Pence cited the violence as a rationale for blocking further challenges.[2]

Indictment of Navarro
Further information: United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
Though Navarro spoke to MSNBC host Ari Melber on January 4, 2022, several weeks after his book was released,[6] he defied a February 2022 subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack,[7] citing executive privilege. The full House sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress. Navarro was arrested, indicted on two counts of contempt, and convicted of both counts on September 8, 2023. [8][9][10]

References
 Navarro, Peter (November 2, 2021). In Trump Time: A Journal of America's Plague Year. All Seasons Press.
 Dickinson, Tim (December 28, 2021). "Trump Adviser Worried He's Not Getting Enough Credit for Trying to Ruin American Democracy". Rolling Stone.
 Pagliery, Jose (December 28, 2021). "Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Lays Out How He and Bannon Planned to Overturn Biden's Electoral Win". The Daily Beast. Retrieved January 13, 2023.
 "Select Committee subpoenas Navarro" (Press release). United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. February 9, 2022. Archived from the original on February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
 Lerer, Lisa (February 4, 2022). "'Trump Is Wrong,' Pence Says of False Claim About Overturning Election". The New York Times. 'President Trump is wrong,' said Mr. Pence, in his remarks before the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization. 'I had no right to overturn the election.'
 Parsley, Aaron (June 23, 2022). "As Trump Aide Details Plot to Overturn 2020 Election, MSNBC Host Reacts: Failed 'Coup'". MSN. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
 Broadwater, Luke (February 9, 2022). "Jan. 6 Inquiry Subpoenas Navarro, Who Worked to Overturn Election". The New York Times.
 "Ex-Trump adviser Navarro pleads not guilty to contempt of Congress in Jan. 6 probe". NBC News. June 17, 2022.
 "Ex-Trump White House official Peter Navarro to go on trial in September in Jan. 6 contempt case". AP News. May 30, 2023.
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01/26/24

'Very sad to see': Outrage as Trump White House official Peter Navarro receives 4-month sentence for defying January 6 subpoena
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WASHINGTON, DC: Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser in the Trump White House, was sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena in an investigation into the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, reported FOX News.

District Judge Amit Mehta oversaw the case and sentenced the former Trump aide on Thursday, January 25, stating the sentence was his "own making." The sentence was two months less than the prosecutors had sought, and he also reduced the fine from the $200,000 sought by the Department of Justice to $9500.

Navarro was convicted in September 2023 for two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena, one for documents and the other for deposition, from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 capitol insurrection.
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Peter Navarro (R) worked under Donald Trump (L) during his presidency from 2017 to 2021 (Getty Images)
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The ex-Trump aide refused to appear and produce the documents in February 2022 and sit for a deposition in March 2022, leading to his indictment in June of the same year.

Judge slams Peter Navarro for claiming prosecution was politically motivated
Slamming Navarro's claims of the prosecution being politically motivated, the Judge said, "I guess what bothers me ultimately is that here we are after a year and a half plus, and you still want to suggest to me that this is a political prosecution. You want me to believe this is a political prosecution when the evidence is completely to the contrary."

"You are not a victim. You are not the object of a political prosecution. These are the circumstances of your own making, "Judge Mehta added.


Judge Amit Mehta stated that Peter Navarro was 'not a victim' (dcd.uscourts.gov)
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During the sentencing hearing, Navarro defended himself, stating then President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege, and his "good faith" in it made him defy the subpoena. In light of the executive privilege, he immediately appealed to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

Navarro's sentencing came amid former President Donald Trump leading the Republican primary polls and securing victories in Iowa and New Hampshire to potentially be nominated by the party as the presidential candidate in the November election.

Former President Donald Trump is the current GOP frontrunner (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
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Trump, also indicted for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results by instigating the January 6 riot, is seeking absolute presidential immunity to protect himself.

Internet reacts to Peter Navarros' sentencing
Navarros' sentencing while First Son Hunter Biden, who also defied Congressional subpoena, walks freely, has outraged netizens. They questioned the "two-tier" justice system and asked when the President's son would be sentenced.

One user remarked, "And what about Hunter Biden he done the same thing and nothing has happened to him. Two-tiered justice is very sad to see!"

Another user said, "More like banana republic double standard law."


"Now Google all the other people that did the exact same thing and didn't have anything happened to them. You are running a clown show. lol," a third response read.
 
A fourth user added, "Everyone associated with Trump ends up broke or in jail." Another user opined, "But not for Hunter Biden the two tier justice system at a finest pay attention Americans."

 
While one user noted, "The sentencing of Peter Navarro raises questions about the accountability of individuals in positions of power."

 
"Our judicial system is a complete one sided joke," another user remarked.


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