Navarro urged judge to allow him to defend himself at contempt of Congress trial by testifying that Trump told him not to comply with congressional subpoena.
told a federal judge that Donald Trump made it"very clear" that he wanted Navarro to invoke certain privileges and not respond to a congressional subpoena from the now-defunct House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
His trial is set to begin Sept. 5, and the parties are estimating the proceedings will take just days to complete. Judge Mehta raised questions about the existence of any documented evidence substantiating Navarro's claim that Trump directed the invocation of the privileges.
The defense contended that it would have been"inconceivable" that Trump would grant executive privilege to all his other senior advisers who had been subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 House select committee and not to Navarro.
Judge Mehta said that what made the case"odd" was that no one was denying that Navarro believed that he had executive privilege.
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