This is not how claiming executive privilege works.
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to members of the committee” as his response. But it remained to be seen whether Navarro would actually cite Trump’s statement as justification for his defiance. Clyburn’s letter reveals that he did just that in a letter, in which Navarro said he took Trump’s words as a “direct, proper and explicit invocation” of executive privilege. “This matter is out of my hands,” Navarro said, going on to suggest the committee take it up with Trump’s counsel.
Clyburn isn’t having it. “Your blanket refusal to comply with the subpoena in its entirety is improper,” Clyburn wrote in the letter sent Saturday. The lawmaker pointed out that Navarro's refusal to cooperate is “particularly indefensible” given Navarro himself goes into “abundant detail” about his White House work—including discussions with Trump about the pandemic response—in his recent book and press promoting it.
Since convening last year, Clyburn’s panel has for months been interviewing officials who were part of Trump’s pandemic response,
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