Former Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Charged With Contempt of Congress

A grand jury on June 3 indicted Peter Navarro, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, for contempt-of-Congress charges after he refused to cooperate with the controversial January 6 panel’s probe into the Capitol breach. The House Jan. 6 committee voted at the end of March to advance criminal charges against Navarro and Dan Scavino amid a raging legal battle over executive privilege. At the time of the vote, Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) rejected the claims of executive privilege. “Executive privilege doesn’t belong to just any White House official. It belongs to the president,” Thompson said. “Here,…