DOJ Sues Ex-Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Over White House Emails

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The Justice Department has sued former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro for allegedly violating a record-keeping law, asking the latter to turn over private emails for while he was working for former President Donald Trump.

โ€œMr. Navarro has refused to return any Presidential records that he retained absent a grant of immunity for the act of returning such documents,โ€ the lawsuit (pdf) says, adding that the ex-Trump aide โ€œis wrongfully retaining Presidential records that are the property of the United States, and which constitute part of the permanent historical record of the prior administration.โ€

Filed on Aug. 3 in a federal court in Washington, the document alleged that Navarro used โ€œat least one non-official email accountโ€ while working in the White House but failed to copy those emails or messages constituting Presidential records to his government email account within 20 days as required by the Presidential Records Act.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was also supposed to receive them before or shortly after Trump left office but is yet to, according to prosecutors, who said between 200 and 250 of the emails on Navarroโ€™s private account should have been collected.

The department further accused Navarro of declining to turn in the retained records without a grant of immunity. Navarroโ€™s lawyers refuted such claims, arguing that their client โ€œhas never refused to provide records to the government.โ€

โ€œAs detailed in our recent letter to the Archives, Mr. Navarro instructed his lawyers to preserve all such records, and he expects the government to follow standard processes in good faith to allow him to produce records. Instead, the government chose to file its lawsuit today,โ€ his attorneys told The Hill in a statement.

Reaching for Trump

The latest case comes two months after a grand juryย indictedย Navarro on June 3 for refusing toย give documents and testimonyย early this year to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach in 2021.

Byย Rita Li

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