Peter Navarro, imprisoned for contempt of Congress for not cooperating in re his plan to overturn the 2020 election, to return as Trump adviser

Trump plans to make Navarro his senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, he said on Truth Social.

Navarro, who claimed credit for coming up with a plan to overturn the 2020 election results, was convicted of contempt of Congress after ignoring a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee and was sentenced to four months in prison.

[Navarro wrote a book about his plan to encourage Congresscritters to object to state electoral college votes; a plan that was enacted on Jan 6 without success.]

Navarro files appeal to force justice department to vindicate him from subpoena conviction​

Intent on vindication after spending four months in prison last year, Donald Trump’s White House trade adviser Peter Navarro asked a federal appeals court on Sunday night to force the justice department to explain why it would not defend his 2022 conviction for defying a January 6 committee subpoena.

["Trump told us to" might look bad.]

[If granted, it would] require the justice department to detail publicly when – if ever – it would charge a presidential adviser who defied a congressional subpoena claiming executive privilege protections.

The public accounting could also prove bruising for the department as it would almost certainly have to confront the appearance that it quietly dropped Navarro’s case this summer only because he again serves as a senior adviser to the president.

“DoJ told the courts my appeal raised no substantial questions, forcing me to surrender and lose four months of freedom. Now the same DoJ attorney of record wants to yank his own brief. You don’t make that pivot unless serious constitutional questions exist,” Navarro said in a statement to the Guardian.