The Jan. 6 House committee voted unanimously on Monday night to hold Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas.
on Monday night to hold two former White House aides of then-President Donald Trump in contempt of Congress.
now needs approval from the full House of Representatives before the Justice Department could consider criminal charges against the pair.Both men have claimed “executive privilege” in their refusal to cooperate with the committee. President Joe Biden’s administration, claiming it was “not in the national interest, and therefore is not justified.”
Dan Scavino allegedly reached out to conspiracy theorists and violent extremists on social media to lure them to the capital to try to overturn the results of the election.“Mr. Scavino worked directly with President Trump to spread [his] false message that the election was stolen, and to recruit American to come to Washington with the false promise that Jan. 6 would be an opportunity to ‘take back their country,'” said committee vice chair Liz Cheney, a Republican.Navarro, according to Rep.
“We are fighting to defend the institutions of democracy at home against coup plotters and insurrectionists and we are supporting other democracies around the world under siege by autocrats, kleptocrats, bullies and despots,” said Raskin.
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