- In a lawsuit, Peter Navarro revealed that he was served with a summons by the grand jury for the January 6 riot.
- The former Trump aide has already been summoned once by the Capitol Rebellion Commission.
- Navarro wrote that he would testify only if former President Donald Trump authorized him.
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Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro has revealed that the FBI handed him a subpoena before a federal grand jury on Thursday for the attack on the Capitol last January.
Navarro revealed the latest summons against him in the draft lawsuit, which details complaints against the House of Representatives committee on January 6, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and US District Attorney Matt Graves.
In the 88-page draft, Navarro said the grand jury summons instructed him to present documents in his possession related to the Capitol attack and records of “all communications” with former President Donald Trump. The case aims to block the summons of the grand jury.
It was served at his house by two FBI agents who “knocked hard” on his door, according to Navarro’s case.
The bill also says the summons is related to another handed to him by a House of Representatives committee on January 6th in February. Navarro refused to co-operate with the commission on January 6, citing “executive privilege”, even after the House of Representatives voted to consider it disrespectful to Congress.
Navarro’s complaint said the committee’s summons against him was “illegal and inapplicable” and that the grand jury’s summons was “the fruit of the poison tree.”
According to Politico, Navarro plans to file a lawsuit Tuesday morning.
“Each of the issues raised in the trial – which took several months to prepare – is ripe for consideration by the judiciary; “I find it my duty to raise these issues now, instead of being coerced by a kangaroo commission,” Navarro told the United States today.
Navarro said he would represent himself in the case, citing his experience with a doctorate in regulatory economics, publishing articles in legal journals.
Asked by The New York Times if he would comply with the grand jury’s summons and testify on Thursday, he said: “It’s not clear.”
A draft of Navarro’s lawsuit says he will testify only if authorized to do so by Trump. He also asked Graves, the U.S. attorney and one of the people being sued, to negotiate this directly with Trump, calling it a less “burdensome” alternative.
Navarro’s case also condemned President Joe Biden’s denial of Trump’s executive privilege on records related to the Capitol uprising. It says that neither he nor Biden have the right to impose such a refusal.
The former Trump aide was originally summoned by the commission on January 6 to testify on a strategy called Cleaning the Green Bay, which was supposed to delay the confirmation of Biden’s election victory in 2020 so that the election could be investigated for fraud. and irregularities.
Navarro was one of those who supported the plan, according to his book During Trump, according to USA Today. In the book, he called the idea “the last, best chance to snatch stolen elections from the jaws of Democrat fraud,” the paper said.
During his tenure with Trump, Navarro helped work on trade policies and the response to the US pandemic.
The summons of the grand jury sent to Navarro will be the first such court order related to the January 6 attack on Trump’s circle, according to The Times. Ali Alexander, a key organizer in the Stop Theft movement, also received a summons to a federal grand jury in April and said he would co-operate in the investigation.
So far, at least 846 people have been charged in connection with the Capitol riot.
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