Former Trump adviser Navarro refuses subpoena in U.S. House coronavirus probe

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has refused to comply with a subpoena for documents related to the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus, saying the former president ordered him not to, according to his response to a congressional request released on Saturday.

The subpoena was issued in November by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis as part of its probe of whether former Trump administration officials mishandled the federal response to the pandemic by interfering with its own health agency's work. Nearly 800,000 people have died in the United States from the pandemic.

Navarro, a Republican, also served as one of former President Donald Trump's pandemic response advisers and was responsible for procurement in the coronavirus response, among other things. Navarro said in a letter to the subcommittee he would not cooperate because Trump told him to "protect executive privilege."

"It is a direct order that I should not comply with the subpoena," Navarro said in a letter to the committee, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-trump-adviser-navarro-refuses-230629276.html

And I suppose if Trump told you to give him a blow job you'd do it too.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

1. Get a cell ready and

throw this lying, traitorous shitass in it. Let's see how long he holds out.

[Enter stage left]

2. About the blow job, I'd bet he already has, some people are saying!

[Walleye]

3. A direct order? From a private citizen!?

Next time any of us get a subpoena we can just say no thanks

[rso]

4. Navarro

A direct order from a private citizen has no legal standing.

[C_U_L8R]

5. If we're not going to punish traitors, can we at least exile them?

[edhopper]

6. Any documents from the Trump Admin

Belong to the Government, not these assholes.

[spanone]

7. Sounds like navarro took an oath to tfg

[Alexander Of Assyria]

9. Navarro might be my favourite TFG mob captain, kept around mainly for the

entertainment value and the ability to spew nonsense nonstop on a variety of subjects with great faux passion in his fable telling.

Hilarious guy, really, on par with Ruddy Rudy, but put some swastikas on his lapels I bet he is a not much fun.

[skylucy]

11. I agree with you on that. Watching Navarro be interviewed always seemed like

satire. I always wondered if he was for real or was just pretending to be an idiot.

[spanone]

13. he gave me the creeps, like most people tfg hired...losers and haters

[lapfog_1]

8. direct order from who?

TFG can't issue you a directive to the Men's room you f'ing moron.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Navarro is demonstrating he is a criminal.

And stupidity.

He obviously doesn't understand that TFG no longer has executive powers.

And as I like to explain the Executive Branch is found in Article II and not in Article I.

[Poiuyt]

12. Well, I, Poiuyt, order him to honor the subpoena!

That should have some standing!

[Progressive Jones]

14. How much of a coward does one have to be to take orders from trump???