Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months for contempt of Congress ( www.npr.org )

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro was sentenced Thursday to four months in prison for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack. The Department of Justice requested a 6-month sentence for the evasion; however, Judge Amit Mehta gave Navarro the same sentence as Bannon received last year.

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Should be held until he complies

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Now do Jim Jordan?

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Navarro, who served as a trade adviser in the Trump administration, was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents and testimony related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

"Your obligation as an American is to cooperate with Congress, to provide them with the information they were seeking," Mehta added.

At Thursday's hearing, prosecutor John Crabb argued that Navarro "believes he is above the law."

The defense, which has argued that executive privilege shielded Navarro from having to testify or produce documents to the committee, had asked for probation.

He told the court that when he received the congressional subpoena he had "an honest belief that the [executive] privilege had been invoked."

He said the House committee should have either called former President Donald Trump or his attorneys to confirm it, or the panel should have told Navarro that there was a dispute about executive privilege.

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