Former Trump trade advisor.
Peter Navarro was recently back in court trying to get a judge to drop the criminal contempt
charges against him.
Because as Navarro and his legal team attempted to argue in front of the judge, he is the
victim of selective prosecution.
And this whole thing they said is quote, unlawful political interference.
Now this court hearing by the way happened last week, and the judge essentially laughed
Navarro and his lawyers out of court, by letting them know that everything they're saying is
not only speculative, but that they have offered not a single shred of evidence to back up
any of these claims.
That is what the judge pointed out.
The judge came out and said, listen, you're telling me that you have been selectively
prosecuted, that this is some kind of political interference, even though by the way, you
don't hold a political office and you're not running for a political office.
So off the bat, the judge is kinda like, I, I don't even see how this is political interference.
You're you're not a politician.
You hold no position in the federal government.
So that's a stupid claim.
But more importantly, if you think you're being selectively prosecuted, you've gotta
come something more than with something stronger than just your gut feeling that, oh, they
just don't like me and they're coming after me.
So the judge denied the motion to dismiss and said, Nope, this is going forward.
And keep in mind.
This is not the first time that Peter Navarro has been smacked down by the courts.
He also got smacked down a little bit, uh, uh, a couple months ago, I guess it was after
he had been arrested, he goes on TV.
And he says they had me in leg irons.
I was in solitary confinement.
They wouldn't let me call my lawyer.
They didn't feed me.
I was basically tortured.
He told us and the DOJ had to come out and say, that's not true.
The courts then smacked him again and said, you are out there making false accusations
against the department of justice that arrested you.
And if you continue to do that, we're gonna have some serious legal problems awaiting
you.
So he kind of backed off those claims that he was, you know, tortured behind bars because
they do have evidence that disproves pretty much everything he said.
And now he goes to court and says, listen, I know I lied in the past.
Right?
I know I said all these things that, uh, you told me not to say.
And I said, 'em anyway, but Hey, I'm totally the victim here still for these new reasons,
the judge just says, no, no, you're not.
You're really, really not.
What gets me about all of this is that this is how Republicans are gonna operate from
this point forward.
You know, we've seen it with Donald Trump multiple times.
Pretty much every investigation he's been under they go out there and they say,
I'm being politically persecuted.
I'm
Being, being selectively prosecuted.
They're just coming after me because they don't like my politics.
Mike Linde has claimed that he's actually suing the FBI, arguing that they came after
him because they didn't like his politics.
Peter Navarro is in court trying to say they're coming after me cuz they don't like my politics.
No.
Now we're coming after you because it's pretty obvious you uh, broke the law by violating
a subpoena cuz you completely ignored it.
You didn't comply with any part of it.
All you had to do was give the January 6th committee, the things that they had asked
for you didn't do that.
Honestly.
You could probably still do it right now and they would drop the charges against you.
But you're refusing to do it because like most conservatives you love to play the role
of the victim.
Right?
That's all, this is about Navarro knows he can get outta trouble like that if he makes
that choice.
But he won't do it because if he does it, he doesn't get to play the victim anymore.