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Representatives on Wednesday spoke in favor of criminal charges once morest two Trump aides for refusing to testify in a House inquiry into the Capitol storming.
Dan Scavino at the White House on August 26, 2020.
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Dan Scavino, in charge of Donald Trump’s social networks when he was in the White House, and Peter Navarro, the former president’s economic adviser, are both referred to federal prosecutors who will have to decide whether or not to indict them for “attempt to obstruct a congressional investigation”.
Neither of them agreed to testify before a parliamentary committee charged with shedding light on the storming of the Capitol, when thousands of supporters of Donald Trump invaded the seat of the United States Congress in an attempt to prevent elected officials from certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
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Dan Scavino is suspected of having been with Donald Trump on January 5, 2021, the day before this attack, and of having attended a discussion on how to convince members of Congress not to go through with this certification.
Peter Navarro, on the other hand, “did not hide his role in the maneuvers to overturn the results of the 2020 election and even mentioned the former president’s support for these projects,” he said. Democrat Bennie Thompson, leader of the parliamentary inquiry.
This parliamentary committee, with a Democratic majority, has already recommended prosecutions once morest Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and a former adviser to the Republican billionaire, Steve Bannon, for their refusal to testify. She hopes to publish her findings before the November legislative election in which Republicans might regain control of the House and bury her work.
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