January 6th legal proceedings and investigations megathread
Badger:
Quote from: emailking on March 19, 2024, 11:19:29 AM
Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro begins serving prison sentence after historic contempt prosecution
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Peter Navarro, an ex-White House aide to former President Donald Trump, has reported to a federal prison in Miami, making history as the first former White House official to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction.
Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison for his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.
Before reporting to jail, Navarro spoke for 30 minutes at a gas station and called the case against him an “unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers.”
He claimed that the legal tactics that were used against him would be used against Trump: “I am pissed – that’s what I am feeling right now.”
Navarro concluded: “God bless you all, see you on the other side.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/politics/peter-navarro-jail-contempt-of-congress/index.html
Not an ounce of remorse, no conception whatsoever what he did was wrong, and an absolute willingness to do it again if given the opportunity. The so-called Law and Order modern GOP in a nutshell.
emailking:
Trump Told Pence Certifying Election Would Be ‘Career Killer,’ Valet Testified
President Donald J. Trump warned his vice president against failing to overturn the 2020 election results, according to an account by the White House valet by his side on Jan. 6.
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The threat from President Donald J. Trump to his vice president, Mike Pence, was clear and direct: If you defy my effort to overturn the 2020 election by certifying the results, your future in Republican politics is over.
“Mike, this is a political career killer if you do this,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Pence by phone on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, according to the White House valet who was with the president for much of the day and told Congress he had overheard the conversation.
The testimony of Mr. Trump’s valet, provided to the now-defunct House Jan. 6 Committee in 2022 but not previously released publicly, offers a rare firsthand look into the former president’s behavior in the hours before, during and after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol...
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In the valet’s account, laid out in a transcript obtained by The New York Times, an agitated Mr. Trump pressured Mr. Pence to overturn the election and stewed about Mr. Pence’s refusal for hours after violence engulfed Congress. Told that a civilian had been shot outside the House chamber amid the mob attack, he recalled, Mr. Trump appeared unconcerned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/trump-pence-jan-6-white-house-valet.html
GeorgiaModerate:
Another one reaches the "find out" phase:
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emailking:
Liz Cheney Gives Warning to Supreme Court
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Former Representative Liz Cheney issued a warning to the United States Supreme Court about its handling of former President Donald Trump's claims of presidential immunity.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments into Trump's immunity claims on April 25. His legal team has argued presidential immunity should shield Trump from being charged in the Department of Justice (DOJ) case surrounding alleged attempts at thwarting the 2020 election results.
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Cheney, a former Republican representative who emerged as a Trump critic following January 6, on Wednesday warned the Supreme Court about the importance of handling the case quickly while speaking at Drake University's Annual Bucksbaum Distinguished Lectureship.
"When [Trump] now is pushing this idea that a president should have complete immunity against any criminal prosecution for anything he does in office and he's pushed this appeal to the Supreme Court, I think it's very important that the Supreme Court recognizes what he's doing is a delaying tactic," Cheney said.
"It cannot be the case that a president of the United States can attempt to overturn an election and seize power and that our justice system is incapable of holding a trial and holding him to account before the next election."
https://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-supreme-court-warning-donald-trump-1884501
GeorgiaModerate:
Reps. Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar subpoenaed in Arizona probe of Trump fake electors
There's no indication that they'll be charged, or even that they complied (or will comply) with the subpoenas, but it's still interesting.
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