He said "There's a special place in hell for Trudeau."
He's OK in my book.
Posted on 01/25/2024 10:50:59 AM PST by bitt
Navarro was sentenced to four months behind bars
Peter Navarro, who served in the White House under former President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday for flouting a House Jan. 6 committee subpoena.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Navarro to four months in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of $9,500.
That's two months shorter than the six prosecutors had sought, but Mehta drastically reduced the whopping $200,000 fine sought by the Justice Department.
A former adviser to the president on trade and manufacturing policies, Navarro was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. The subpoena required Navarro to appear and produce documents in February 2022, and sit for a deposition in March 2022, but Navarro refused to provide the materials and testify. As a private citizen, he was indicted on June 2, 2022.
In announcing the sentencing decision, Mehta cited how Navarro had claimed a "two-tier system of justice" and described the Jan. 6 committee as a "kangaroo court."
"I have made clear my confusion about his arrest when he could have been offered self-surrender… The idea that he is subject to a two-tiered system of justice when he’s sitting here with 4 very capable lawyers is a real head-scratcher," the judge said. "The words executive privilege are not magical dust… it’s not a get out of jail free card. To not engage with the committee to work through the issues… to simply not engage, there’s no basis for it."
Mehta on Thursday had gone through a tedious recounting of the sentencing guidelines and came to the conclusion that there is a "zero to six months range,"
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Wait didn’t the House Jan. 6 committee destroy all documents ?
Eric Holder just laughs.......................
FOX loves that headline.
We can’t be Trump...so we will BEAT up his allies.
“I have made clear my confusion about his arrest when he could have been offered self-surrender… The idea that he is subject to a two-tiered system of justice when he’s sitting here with 4 very capable lawyers is a real head-scratcher,” the judge said. “The words executive privilege are not magical dust… it’s not a get out of jail free card. To not engage with the committee to work through the issues… to simply not engage, there’s no basis for it.”
I guess the stupid douche judge never heard of the Fifth Amendment.
Appeal it. The Jan 6 committee was not a bipartisan committee so it had no subpoena powers to begin with.
That committee wasn’t even lawful.
The fact that the totally hack committee can put people in prison is shocking but the GOP seems to shrug. Imagine what the left would do to if the BLM/Antifa scum were all rounded up and imprisoned without true due process. It would never leave as the top headline worldwide,the congress would have act like it’s a crisis and people would surround the prison and have riots, college walkout etc.
He said "There's a special place in hell for Trudeau."
He's OK in my book.
Is his retention of government records from a Proton email account still being appealed?
Appeals court denies Peter Navarro’s effort to keep hundreds of emails
Didn’t find anything later.
He seems to be smarter than Giuliani, but that’s a low bar.
It seems surprising that a federal judge would accept an historical first time 'suspension' of a right that was first practiced by Prez George Washington. The judge appears to have struggled with some ambiguous aspects of the case against Navarro, as well perhaps, as the fact that the Jan 06 Committee destroyed the records of all their proceedings.
A bit of a head scratcher. 🤦♂️
Cool! Now do hunter biden.
Government: Who?
Hunter didn’t show.. How many months did he get!!!!!!!!!!?
Ah, so the judge must have agreed with him which explains the lighter sentence.
I would have paid serious money to see Navarro take the whistles and cowbells away from those progressive bastards and insert them ‘Hancock-style’ where the sun doesn’t shine...
Democrats are above the law.
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