Peter Navarro, a former trusted White House adviser to Donald Trump, will head to trial this week for contempt of Congress. Navarro, a staunch advocate of Trump's "stolen election" claims, is charged with two misdemeanor counts of contempt for refusing to cooperate and provide testimony and documents to the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection. Former MAGA aide Steve Bannon was similarly convicted in July 2022 after defying congressional subpoenas and was hit with a four-month prison sentence.
The Washington Post reports that Navarro, who has pleaded not guilty, stated last week outside a Washington courthouse that his "legal bills just went up by another half-million dollars" and that he expects the final cost of those fees to reach $750,000, on the expectation that his case "is probably going to the Supreme Court."
