Peter Navarro is batshit crazy:
The federal judge presiding over the criminal contempt of Congress case against former President Donald Trump’s onetime trade adviser Peter Navarro in DC called some of the evidence from the defense “pretty weak sauce.”
Navarro says he defied subpoenas from the House January 6 committee because Trump directed him to do so. But US District Judge Amit P. Mehta, sitting in the same courthouse as Judge Tanya Chutkin, seemed unconvinced.
“I still don’t know what the president said,” Mehta told Navarro’s attorney Stanley Woodward, referring to the February 20, 2022, call during which Navarro said it was made clear the former president was invoking executive privilege. “I don’t have any words from the former president.”
“That’s pretty weak sauce,” Mehta said, referring to a comment Navarro says Trump made to him about regretting not letting him testify. The comment had been used by Navarro and his team to bolster their argument that Trump did invoke privilege because his subsequent regret indicated as much.
“The record is barren, there is nothing here, even after your client’s testimony,” Mehta told Woodward toward the end of Monday’s pre-trial hearing.
The judge said he would make a decision later this week on whether Navarro’s testimony could be used in his trial next month.
Navarro stood for the duration of the hearing with his arms folded, even as he fielded questions from the attorneys. When he was off the stand, he paced back and forth near his team of attorneys, and he became testy with the prosecutor once they began their cross-examination, causing the judge to instruct him on how to conduct himself.
Good lord, what a lunatic. What a horrible client.
He was a top adviser in the Trump administration. Only the best people …