The House panel investigating the Capitol riot has approved contempt charges against Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino for failing to comply with subpoenas. Both are allies of former President Donald Trump.
“He hasn’t been shy about his role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and has even discussed the former President’s support for those plans,” Thompson, the committee’s Democratic chairman, said in a statement at the time.
In a statement Sunday night, Navarro said the committee “should negotiate this matter with President Trump.” He added, “If he waived the privilege, I will be happy to comply; but I see no effort by the Committee to clarify this matter with President Trump, which is bad faith and bad law.” Scavino and his counsel have received at least half a dozen extensions to comply with the subpoena, according to the committee.
Also later this week, the committee plans to interview former Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of the people said.