The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is set to vote next week on whether to hold two aides to former president Donald Trump in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the committee’s subpoenas.
The committee will meet Monday to consider a report recommending holding two former Trump White House officials — former trade and manufacturing director Peter Navarro and former communications chief Daniel Scavino Jr. — for criminal contempt of Congress. If the committee approves the matter, the House would vote on whether to refer Navarro and Scavino to the Justice Department for prosecution.
The bipartisan Jan. 6 panel is investigating the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob that tried to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden’s electoral college win, an attack that led to five deaths and left some 140 members of law enforcement injured.
The committee subpoenaed Scavino, along with several other former Trump advisers, last September, but an attorney for Trump instructed the group not to comply with congressional investigators. Trump’s legal team tried to argue that the former aides were protected by executive and other privileges, but President Biden rejected the executive privilege claims last month.
Last month, the committee subpoenaed Navarro, who has written and publicly discussed the effort to develop a strategy to delay or overturn certification of the 2020 election. In a statement to Politico Thursday,...
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