According to a bombshell, breaking new report from The Guardian — Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino — two key, top advisors to former President Donald Trump — have officially been held in contempt of Congress following a House vote today, in connection to their months-long defiance and refusal to comply with subpoenas issued against them for their testimony by the January 6th House Select Committee.
“The approval of the contempt resolution, by a vote of 220 to 203, sets the two Trump aides on the path toward criminal prosecution by the justice department as the panel escalates its inquiry into whether Trump oversaw a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election,” the report reads.
House Select Committee member Congressman Jamie Raskin, who was responsible for introducing the contempt resolution to the House floor, said it was necessary for the panel to involve the House in an effort to advance the measure and make the consequences of defying their January 6th investigation crystal clear.
Raskin said that in refusing to comply with the congressional subpoenas “these two witnesses have acted in contempt of Congress and the American people; we must hold them in contempt of Congress and the American people.”
“The contempt citations approved by the House now head to the justice department and the US attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew Graves, who is required by law to weigh a prosecution and present the matter before a federal grand jury,” the publication’s report goes on to read.
“Should the justice department secure a conviction against the Trump aides, the consequences could mean up to a year in federal prison, $100,000 in fines, or both – though it would not force their compliance, and pursuing the misdemeanor charge could take months.”
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“This is America, and there’s no executive privilege here for presidents, much less trained advisors, to plan coups and organize insurrections against the people’s government in the people’s constitution and then to cover up the evidence of their crimes,” Raskin fumed in a brutal takedown of the pair’s executive privilege arguments.
“These two men are in contempt of Congress and we must say, both for their brazen disregard for their duties and for our laws and our institutions.”
Read the full report here.
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