Trump Advisor Navarro Claps Back at J6 And The FBI After Strip-Search
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro set the January 6th committee on fire for politicizing the FBI. Navarro says he was on a planned trip that he informed the committee and FBI of beforehand when he was detained and strip searched at the airport.
Navarro accused the FBI of treating him like Al-Qaeda stating that agents put him in leg irons and strip-searched him as he attempted to catch his flight to Tennessee. A trip that he reportedly informed the FBI of beforehand.
"On Wednesday night, I sent an email to Patricia, the deputy attorney, and said, look, I'm seeking a modus vivendi here. I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. Let's see what we can do," Navarro said.
Prior to his arrest, Navarro also reached out to an FBI agent he named as Walter Giordano -- whom he said had been "banging on my door" a week before – in hopes of seeking a détente while his civil suit against Thompson's committee made its way through the legal process.
"They chose a different route. They didn't call my attorney. Instead, they went with this shock-and-awe terror strategy – They let me go to the airport and then take me with five agents, like I'm an Al Qaeda terrorist," he said, adding he was allegedly unconstitutionally deprived of food, water and counsel during his time in custody.
Navarro had accused the government of "preemptively" filing criminal charges against him before his civil suit against the Thompson-Cheney committee is heard.
He told Tucker Carlson the January 6 committee "subpoenaed me illegally" in that it is allegedly not a legitimate committee under the standing rules of the House.
"I was faced with the untenable choice of upholding executive privilege, which was not my privilege to waive – that's Donald Trump's privilege to waive – so I did my duty to the president. I did my duty to this country. And here we sit," he said.
Navarro's civil suit focuses on two constitutional issues, which he called the weaponization of Congress and the committee's purported affront to the separation of Powers – as a legislative panel usurping powers of the judiciary.
"[The DOJ and committee] went into this fanciful and absurd notion that Biden, a sitting incumbent president, could strip his immediate predecessor of executive privilege in me, a staff member to the president of what the Justice Department itself, as you pointed out, has absolute testimonial immunity," he said.
If you haven't read the letter written by a protester on January 6th you really need to. It's extremely telling and reflects much of what Navarro has explained. Worse, even.
