On the day of Peter Navarro’s arrest earlier this month, FBI agents read the ex-Donald Trump adviser his Miranda warnings and agreed to loosen his handcuffs, until he was no longer in pain. The arresting agents allowed him to call his attorney, but the self-represented Navarro did not have one.
“I’m supposed to be on live television tonight,” Navarro allegedly told agents. “I’d like to call the producer and tell him I’m not going to be there. Can I have my phone?”
When the FBI informed him an attorney could handle such arrangement, Navarro called his arresting agents “kind Nazis.”
“How you could live with yourselves?” Navarro asked them.
So reads the three-page FBI report of Navarro’s arrest for contempt of Congress at Reagan International Airport on the morning of June 3.
Federal prosecutors included the FBI’s account of Navarro’s invective as an attachment to a 6-page motion refuting his “false” statements about his access to counsel and conditions of arrest.
“The Defendant has made numerous false statements in the press about his arrest—for example, that he was deprived of food and water,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda R. Vaughn wrote in a footnote to the motion. “In fact, when he asked, he was offered food and water, took it, then asked if he wanted more.”
Indeed, the FBI’s notes indicate that authorities made this offer shortly after Mirandizing Navarro.
“At 11:32 a.m., the FBI vehicle transporting Navarro arrived at Washington Field Office,” the notes states. “...
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