Navarro said he was called to testify before a federal grand jury on Thursday and to provide all records he has regarding his refusal to comply with a February summons he received from an elected House of Representatives committee investigating the attack on The US Capitol, including any communication with former President Donald Trump. The New York Times was the first to report that Navarro, a former Trump trade adviser, said he had been summoned by federal prosecutors. In April, the House voted to recommend that Navarro be referred to the Department of Justice on charges of criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with his summons.
The grand jury’s summons was revealed in a draft of a case received by CNN, which Navarro said he intended to sue against the House of Representatives elected committee, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the U.S. District Attorney.
Navarro is representing the case, which has not yet been brought to court, and is trying to persuade a federal judge to block both the summons of the House of Representatives committee and the summons of the grand jury, which he says are illegal.
Navarro said in the draft lawsuit that the grand jury summons was served on Thursday when two FBI special agents “slammed my door in the early hours of the morning.”
CNN asked Navarro to see a copy of the grand jury summons. CNN also contacted the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia for comment.
Navarro was in the public domain for his attempts to work with Trump’s campaign to undermine the 2020 presidential election.
In a recent book, the former White House trade adviser described a plan called “Cleaning the Green Bay” that involved persuading state leaders in several swinging states to question election results in a bid to delay and ultimately prevent certification. the election.
Navarro claims in his book that he was among “the last three people in God’s green land who wanted to see an outbreak of violence” on January 6, 2021 – among people like Trump and Trump’s ally and adviser Steve Bannon.
Speaking in a Bannon podcast earlier this year, Navarro appears to have criticized former Vice President Mike Pence for making a mistake by claiming that Pence has the power to cancel the 2020 election. Navarro called Pence a “never pure type of Trump.” and “Mark Short’s Prisoner,” Pence’s longtime confidant and chief of staff to the former vice president, who appeared before the House of Representatives election committee.
This story was updated with additional information on Monday.
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