A grand jury on June 3 indicted Peter Navarro, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, for contempt-of-Congress charges after he refused to cooperate with the controversial January 6 panel’s probe into the Capitol breach.
The House Jan. 6 committee voted at the end of March to advance criminal charges against Navarro and Dan Scavino amid a raging legal battle over executive privilege.
At the time of the vote, Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) rejected the claims of executive privilege.
“Executive privilege doesn’t belong to just any White House official. It belongs to the president,” Thompson said. “Here, President Biden has been clear that executive privilege does not prevent cooperation with the Select Committee by either Mr. Scavino or Mr. Navarro….