Peter Navarro writes for the Federalist about his experience with Democrats’ legal machinery.
I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To is both a line from my speech that brought the house down at the Republican National Convention on the day I walked out of prison, and a cautionary tale about the new age of Democrat lawfare and weaponized justice that the Age of Trump has ushered in.
If they can come for me, Steve, and President Trump — along with Jeff Clark, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Dan Scavino, Mark Meadows, Jenna Ellis, Peter Clark, Boris Epshteyn, and other Trump associates — they can come for you.
As a matter of simple math, virtually everyone involved in putting me behind bars was a Democrat: A Democrat House Majority, a Democrat-run Department of Justice, Democrat judges, and a Democrat jury.
Consider the Kafkaesque world of lawfare I would be hit with by these partisans: More than a million dollars in legal fees and deprived of four months of my freedom — all because I honored the president’s invocation of executive privilege and oath of office.
It started with an illegal subpoena I received from the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. This J6 Committee was an illegally formed and unduly authorized committee, cobbled together by Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she vetoed two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s appointees. McCarthy then stupidly withdrew the rest, leaving Pelosi free to stack the committee with hand-picked Trump-haters.
As a senior White House advisor, I knew it was my constitutional duty not to appear before that J6 witch hunt. President Trump had invoked executive privilege, and more than 50 years of Department of Justice precedent supported absolute testimonial immunity for senior presidential advisors. Don McGahn, Rick Dearborn, Kellyanne Conway, and Rob Porter had all refused to testify before hostile committees without ever facing contempt charges.
