众议院特别委员会正在调查1月6日袭击周三,美国国会大厦传唤了特朗普的白宫官员彼得·纳瓦罗(Peter Navarro),要求他提供记录和证词。
纳瓦罗,谁担任总统唐纳德·特朗普的贸易顾问,支持前总统毫无根据的说法,2020年总统选举是通过广泛的选民欺诈从特朗普那里偷来的。
除了为特朗普制造多份未经证实的选民欺诈指控报告外,纳瓦罗在回忆录中声称,他与特朗普盟友史蒂夫·班农一起提出了一项计划,通过推迟1月6日选举团投票的认证来质疑选举结果,以保住特朗普的职位。
“纳瓦罗先生似乎掌握了与特别委员会直接相关的信息调查“调查1月6日国会大厦袭击的原因,”委员会主席本尼·汤普森说他毫不避讳自己在推翻2020年大选结果的努力中所扮演的角色,甚至还讨论了前总统对这些计划的支持。"
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白宫贸易和制造业政策主任彼得·纳瓦罗在一次记者招待会上发言...
“特朗普总统援引了行政特权;我没有权利放弃,”纳瓦罗在给美国广播公司新闻的一份关于传票的声明中说。“他们应该直接与总统和他的律师协商放弃特权,而不是通过我。”
根据纳瓦罗被称为“绿湾大扫荡”的计划,前副总统迈克·彭斯将把有争议的选举结果发回各州,从而迫使国会山进行数小时的辩论。
“这是一个完美的计划,”纳瓦罗在去年底接受《每日野兽》采访时说。“这一切都是基于国会山的和平与平静。我们甚至不需要任何抗议者,因为我们有100多名国会议员致力于此。”
但是暴乱者打乱了官方的计票,当程序恢复时,彭斯证明了计票结果反对意见特朗普和他的盟友声称他可以挑战选举结果。
纳瓦罗周三说:“上帝的好地球上最后三个想要在国会山制造混乱和暴力的人是特朗普总统、史蒂夫·班农和我。
汤普森说:“500多名证人在我们的调查中提供了信息,我们预计纳瓦罗先生也会这样做。
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump adviser Peter Navarro
The House select committee investigating theJan. 6 attackon the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday subpoenaed Trump White House official Peter Navarro for records and testimony.
Navarro, who served as PresidentDonald Trump'strade adviser, supported the former president's unfounded claims that the 2020 presidentialelectionwas stolen from Trump through widespread voter fraud.
In addition to producing multiple reports of unproven voter fraud claims for Trump, Navarro, in his memoir, claimed to have come up with a plan with Trump ally Steve Bannon to contest the election results by delaying the Jan. 6 certification of the Electoral College vote in order to keep Trump in office.
"Mr. Navarro appears to have information directly relevant to the Select Committee'sinvestigationinto the causes of the January 6th attack on the Capitol," said committee chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. "He hasn't been shy about his role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and has even discussed the former President's support for those plans."
"President Trump has invoked Executive Privilege; and it is not my privilege to waive," Navarro said in a statement to ABC News regarding the subpoena. "They should negotiate any waiver of the privilege with the president and his attorneys directly, not through me."
Under Navarro's plan, dubbed the "Green Bay Sweep," former Vice President Mike Pence was to send disputed election results back to the states, thereby forcing hours of debate on Capitol Hill.
"It was a perfect plan," Navarro said in an interview late last year with the Daily Beast. "And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn't even need any protesters, because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it."
But rioters disrupted the official count, and when the proceedings resumed, Pence certified the vote countover the objectionsof Trump and his allies who claimed he could have challenged the results.
"The last three people on God’s good earth who wanted chaos and violence on Capitol Hill were President Trump, Steve Bannon, and I," Navarro said Wednesday.
"More than 500 witnesses have provided information in our investigation, and we expect Mr. Navarro to do so as well," said Thompson.