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    8 months ago

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    A senior aide to Donald Trump will have to go to prison while he appeals his conviction for refusing to testify before Congress about his involvement in efforts to undo the results of the 2020 election.

    Navarro argued that Mehta’s ruling can’t stand because, for example, if there’s “a former president unexpectedly suffering from disability or death,” an aide should still be able to guard White House communications.

    Navarro spoke at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in February, saying he was “weeks away from a prison cell.” He compared himself to Trump, noting that they were both in unprecedented legal situations.

    Trump’s infamous tweet telling followers to come to D.C. on Jan. 6 for a “wild” protest began with a link to a document of unfounded voter fraud claims compiled by Navarro.

    The plan, as Navarro described it in his book, involved dragging out the vote count with 24 hours of speeches from Republicans in swing states won by Biden.

    The hope was that the spectacle would put pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to reject the results from those states, kicking off a process that would end with the House deciding the election for Trump.


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