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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Capitol attack inquiry narrows on Trump as panel subpoenas top aide

Peter Navarro looks on as Donald Trump speaks in Washington DC, in March 2020.
Peter Navarro with Donald Trump in Washington in March 2020. ‘Navarro appears to have information directly relevant to [our] investigation,’ Bennie Thompson said. Photograph: Pete Marovich/EPA

The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack on Wednesday subpoenaed Donald Trump’s former White House senior adviser Peter Navarro, escalating its inquiry into the former president’s efforts to return himself to office and the January 6 insurrection.

The move to pursue Navarro, who helped finalize the scheme to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win with political operatives at the Willard hotel in Washington DC, suggests the panel is edging ever closer to examining potential culpability for Trump.

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