Trump Crony Navarro Sentenced to Prison

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Senior Trump White House Advisor Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months in Federal prison for defying Congressional subpoenas. Navarro tried to use a claim of “executive privilege” to avoid prosecution for defying a Congressional subpoena to testify after Trump left office, regarding the January 6 insurrection. 

Enjoy Club Fed, Pete!  That’s what you get for blindly following the orders of Cult-Leader Trump.

“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.,” US District Judge Amit Mehta said during the sentencing hearing, raising his voice. “When the evidence is completely to the contrary.”

“You are not a victim. You are not the object of a political prosecution,” the judge said. “These are the circumstances of your own making.”

 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/peter-navarro-contempt-congress-sentence/index.html

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Not surprised. Navarro has a long history of quixotic behaviour as a failed public official here in San Diego.

Navarro left a trail of political wreckage in California

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Long before Peter Navarro’s feud with infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci over a possible treatment for coronavirus, the White House trade adviser had a reputation as a political wrecking ball in California — where he ran in a handful of races as a liberal Democrat.

The combative and cocksure approach that mark his arguments for the use of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine are familiar to California Democrats who assisted Navarro’s early political forays in Southern California, when he unsuccessfully ran for office in San Diego five times between 1992 and 2001.

 

Back then, they recall, Navarro’s temper and ego often proved to be his undoing in campaigns where he literally stood alongside Hillary Clinton, railed against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich as the personification of political evil and positioned himself as a “strong environmentalist and a progressive on social issues such as choice, gay rights, and religious freedom.’’

 

Larry Remer, a veteran Democratic political consultant who ran two of Navarro’s campaigns, describes his former client as “the biggest a$$hole I’ve ever known.’’

In San Diego, Navarro “came on the scene as a disruptive force...as a force of destruction from the progressive left,’’ says Remer. As the founder of a no-growth group called Prevent Los Angelization Now, “he tapped into something that was very strong.’’

A former Republican and independent, Navarro made the switch to the Democratic Party after his independent run for mayor in 1992. In subsequent losing campaigns for city council, county supervisor and Congress, he dismissed the GOP as aligned to an “every man for himself” approach, at one point arguing that instead, “we ought to progressively tax the rich to help everybody else.”

He and Santos: birds of a feather. No wonder he became MAGA CULT.