United States: A federal judge on Thursday shot down Trump White House official Peter Navarro’s bid to remain free during his jail appeal for contempt of Congress conviction for not cooperating with an investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol.
Navarro was last sentenced a month ago to four months in prison for refusing subpoenaed documents and testimony held under the Committee on January 6 by the House. The person in question is the former White House trade adviser under President Donald Trump and had asked to be free until he fights that conviction and sentence at any higher court.
Judge Denies Release

However, District Judge US Amit Mehta stated that Navarro would be imprisoned for the sentence in jail whenever ordered by the Bureau of Prisons unless something stops this order from the Washington federal appeals court. The judge concluded that Navarro had failed to demonstrate the existence of any 6 “substantial” questions of law that would arise on appeal.
Besides, Navarro has attempted to maintain that his prosecution was prompted by political bias, but Mehta indicated having accepted “no actual proof” in support of this claim.
“Defendant’s cynical, self-serving claim of political bias poses no question at all, let alone a ‘substantial’ one,” wrote Mehta, who was appointed to the federal court in Washington by President Barack Obama.
Trump’s Executive Privilege Claim Disallowed
Navarro claimed that because Trump had used presidential privilege, he was unable to collaborate with the committee. But because he failed to provide evidence that Trump had invoked it, the judge disallowed him from bringing up that point during the trial.
Before being punished in January, Navarro informed the judge that he had been misled into thinking that the House committee looking into the incident on January 6 had accepted his claim of executive privilege.
The second Trump assistant found guilty of contempt of Congress was Navarro. Steve Bannon, a former strategist for the White House, is currently free, awaiting an appeal after serving a four-month term.
House Committee Concludes Investigation
The House committee carried out its investigation of the insurrection for 18 months that, involved over a thousand witnesses through ten hearings and more than one million pages. Finally, the panel concluded in its closing report that Trump participated criminally as part of a ‘multi-part conspiracy’ to overturn election results and did not attempt at least once to stop his followers from assaulting the Capitol.
Trump Denies Wrongdoing Amid Criminal Charges
Trump, the front-runner for the presidential primary, has been charged with conspiring to change the 2020 election results and eventually lost to President Joe Biden. Special counsel Jack Smith criminally charged him. Despite all these criminal charges, Trump denied any wrongdoing and says the case is politically motivated.
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