House Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Former Trump Aide Peter Navarro
Navarro reportedly worked with Steve Bannon and others to create and
implement a plan to interfere with the certification of the 2020 election.

The House select committee investigating the 2021 Capitol riot has
subpoenaed Peter Navarro, who worked as a White House trade adviser to
former President Donald Trump.

In the subpoena sent on Wednesday, the committee demanded Navarro produce
relevant documents and information by Feb. 23. The subpoena also requires
him to testify before the committee on March 2.

�Based on publicly available information and information produced to the
Select Committee, we believe that you have documents and information that
are relevant to the Select Committee�s investigation,� the committee wrote
in the subpoena. �For example, you, then a White House trade advisor,
reportedly worked with Steve Bannon and others to develop and implement a
plan to delay Congress�s certification of, and ultimately change the
outcome of, the November 2020 presidential election.�

Navarro reportedly described the plan in his recently published memoir,
�In Trump Time,� as the �Green Bay Sweep,� saying it was designed as the
�last, best chance to snatch a stolen election from the Democrats� jaws of
deceit.� Navarro named the plot after the famous football play designed by
1960s NFL coach Vince Lombardi, in which a Green Bay Packers running back
would ram into the end zone behind a �phalanx of blockers.�

According to Navarro, Bannon played the role of the coach, while then-Vice
President Mike Pence played quarterback. Bannon, who has been charged with
criminal contempt for defying a subpoena from the subcommittee, told his
podcast listeners the day before the insurrection: �So many people said,
�Man, if I was in a revolution, I would be in Washington.� Well, this is
your time in history � We�re on the point of attack tomorrow � It�s game
day.�

The House committee also cited a Daily Beast interview in which Navarro
said Trump was �on board with the strategy,� as were �more than 100�
members of Congress, including Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-Texas).

�That, of course, was not the first time you publicly addressed purported
fraud in the election. You also released on your website a three-part
report, dubbed the �Navarro Report,� repeating many claims of purported
fraud in the election that have been discredited in public reporting, by
state officials, and courts,� the committee said.

�And, because you have already discussed these and other relevant issues
in your recently published book, in interviews with reporters, and, among
other places, on a podcast, we look forward to discussing them with you,
too.�

The podcast in question was Navarro�s appearance on Bannon�s �War Room� in
December, in which Navarro praised Bannon as a �hero� for coming up with
the �strategy to go up to Capitol Hill� on Jan. 6, 2021.

In January, Navarro told MSNBC�s Ari Melber that he saw �nothing but
peaceful people� on the day of the insurrection, and that �we only wanted
peace that day.�

On Wednesday, Navarro said in a statement that the subpoena was �leaked to
key members of the press well before I received it.�

�I refer this tribunal to Chapter 21 of �In Trump Time� for what is in the
public record about the Green Bay Sweep plan to [ensure] election
integrity � the last three people on God�s good earth who wanted chaos and
violence on Capitol Hill were President Trump, Steve Bannon, and I,� he
continued.

Navarro also said that because Trump has invoked �executive privilege,� he
cannot comply with the subpoena. The Supreme Court has ruled against
Trump�s attempt to use executive privilege to shield documents the
committee is seeking.