Jan. 6 Inquiry Subpoenas Navarro, Who Labored to Overturn Election

WASHINGTON — The Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol issued a subpoena on Wednesday to Peter Navarro, a White Home adviser to former President Donald J. Trump who was concerned in what he referred to as an “operation” to maintain Mr. Trump in workplace after he misplaced the 2020 election.

The subpoena was the committee’s newest try and receive details about efforts underway in Mr. Trump’s White Home to invalidate the election. In his e book, titled “In Trump Time,” and in interviews with The New York Instances and different shops, Mr. Navarro has stated that he labored with Stephen Ok. Bannon and different allies of Mr. Trump to develop and perform a plan to delay Congress’s formal depend of the 2020 presidential election outcomes to purchase time to alter the result.

Consultant Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, highlighted how overtly and proudly Mr. Navarro has mentioned these machinations, saying he “hasn’t been shy about his function in efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election, and has even mentioned the previous president’s assist for these plans.”

Mr. Navarro has insisted that the violence on the Capitol on Jan. 6 was not a part of his plans, which he stated included having Vice President Mike Pence reject electors for Joseph R. Biden Jr. when Congress met in a joint session to formally depend them.

“To drag off an operation Bannon has dubbed the Inexperienced Bay Sweep — and thereby maintain President Trump within the White Home for a second time period — we should have solely peace and calm,” Mr. Navarro wrote in his e book.

On Wednesday, he stated he wouldn’t adjust to the committee’s subpoena, citing Mr. Trump’s invocation of govt privilege.

“It isn’t my privilege to waive,” Mr. Navarro stated. He additionally berated Mr. Pence for failing to associate with Mr. Trump’s calls for that he unilaterally throw out electoral votes for Mr. Biden. And he insulted Marc Quick, Mr. Pence’s former high aide who has cooperated with the panel; Mark Meadows, the previous White Home chief of employees; and the 2 Republicans on the committee, Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.

“Pence betrayed Trump. Marc Quick is a Koch Community canine. Meadows is a idiot and a coward. Cheney and Kinzinger are helpful idiots for Nancy Pelosi and the woke Left,” Mr. Navarro wrote in an e mail.

In his e book, Mr. Navarro wrote that the thought was for Mr. Pence to be the “quarterback” of the plan and “put certification of the election on ice for a minimum of one other a number of weeks whereas Congress and the varied state legislatures concerned examine the entire fraud and election irregularities.”

There was no proof of widespread fraud or irregularities within the 2020 election, although Mr. Trump continues to assert that it was “stolen” from him.

Mr. Navarro additionally wrote a 36-page report alleging election fraud as a part of what he referred to as an “Immaculate Deception.” In an interview with The Instances, he stated he relied on “hundreds of affidavits” from Mr. Trump’s private lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, and Bernard B. Kerik, the previous New York police commissioner, to assist produce the report, which claimed there “could effectively have been a coordinated technique to successfully stack the election deck towards the Trump-Pence ticket.”

The Jan. 6 committee described the claims in Mr. Navarro’s report as having been “discredited in public reporting, by state officers and courts.”

Mr. Navarro stated that he made certain Republican members of Congress acquired a duplicate of his report and that greater than 100 members of Congress had signed onto the plans. (In the end, 147 Republican members of Congress objected to certifying a minimum of one state for Mr. Biden.)

“My function was very particular within the Inexperienced Bay Packers sweep,” he stated in an interview. “I used to be the analytical man who supplied the receipts, as Bannon calls it. When the hearings have been held and the congressmen have been having the controversy over the outcomes, they’d have my report of their palms.”

“I attempted repeatedly to get to Pence,” Mr. Navarro stated, “and I couldn’t do it. I used to be locked out.”

An aide to Mr. Navarro was additionally in touch with a gaggle of Trump allies who have been pushing for the previous president to order the seizure of voting machines.

When the previous nationwide safety adviser Michael T. Flynn and the lawyer Sidney Powell arrived on the White Home on Dec. 18 to press Mr. Trump to pursue their plan, they have been escorted in by Garrett Ziegler, a younger aide to Mr. Navarro, in keeping with Mr. Ziegler’s account.

Mr. Ziegler’s credentials have been revoked after the incident.

Mr. Navarro, who coordinated the Trump administration’s pandemic response by means of his function overseeing the Protection Manufacturing Act, is at present defying a subpoena from one other congressional investigation. He’s refusing to cooperate with a subpoena from the Home Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Disaster.

Greater than 500 witnesses have cooperated with the Jan. 6 inquiry to date.