Former White House aide Peter Navarro said that federal agents “put me in leg irons” after he was charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
While speaking outside a federal courthouse in Washington on Friday, Navarro asked: “Who are these people? This is not America … I was a distinguished public servant for four years.”
Navarro told reporters that he wasn’t informed that he needed to turn himself in, and was instead arrested by an FBI agent while trying to get on a flight in Nashville.
“They put me in leg irons, they stuck me in a cell, by the way. Just a historical note—I was in John Hinckley’s cell,” Navarro said. “They seemed to think that that was like an important historical note. That’s punitive. What they did to me today violated the Constitution.”…