Ex-Trump Aide Navarro Found Guilty Of Contempt Of Congress As 2-Year Jail Term Looms: 'Acted Like He Was Above Law'

Donald Trump's former aide Peter Navarro has been convicted on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for not responding to a subpoena from a House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots.

Following a trial that lasted two days, Navarro was declared guilty by a 12-member jury in Washington D.C., and is now staring at a potential sentencing in January. He could face up to a maximum of one year of imprisonment and a fine of $100,000 for each count.

Navarro "acted like he was above the law" when he defied the then-House Select Committee's Feb. 2022 subpoena, said the prosecutors.

Navarro served in the Trump administration as the Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, and the National Defense Production Act policy coordinator.

Congressional investigators were striving to get details on Navarro's efforts at delaying the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. The committee has since then been dissolved.

Steve Bannon, another of Trump’s allies, was convicted of contempt of Congress last year and was sentenced to four months in jail and a $6,500 fine but he has appealed the verdict.

Talking outside of the court, Navarro said it was a “sad day for America” and vowed that he would appeal the decision all the way to the Supreme Court. The Department of Justice has a years-old norm that senior White House advisers may not be compelled to testify before Congress, he said, adding “Yet they brought the case.”

Navarro served as senior trade adviser to Trump for all four years of the latter's candidacy.

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