Peter Navarro, a former White House trade adviser, this week refused to comply with a subpoena from a House probe into the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic
Then-White House trade adviser Peter Navarro listens as then-President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House on Aug. 14, 2020, in Washington, D.C. | Patrick Semansky/AP Photo.
"It is abundantly clear that you possess information responsive to the subpoena that is not covered by any colorable claims of executive privilege," he wrote to Navarro.
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