Mon Jun 6, 2022 – 9:21 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Former top Trump adviser Peter Navarro was arrested by the FBI on Friday for refusing to testify before the Democrat-led January 6 Committee, just hours after vowing to fight the charges, and a single day after promising to help the House GOP impeach U.S. President Joe Biden.
Indicted on contempt charges, Navarro “said in court he wants to represent himself without a lawyer,” and has “accused prosecutors of ‘hard-ball’ tactics by not letting him make a phone call,” according to a Twitter thread posted by CNN White House correspondent John Harwood.
Navarro, who previously explained that the intent of the January 6 protest was to peacefully encourage Congress and Vice President Mike Pence to reject certification of election results contested by the Trump campaign, was reportedly detained by federal authorities while on his way to film a TV interview in Nashville, Tennessee.
The arrest came just hours after the former Trump aide was indicted on charges of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the highly-partisan January 6 Committee, assembled last year to legitimize claims regarding the so-called “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol
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