indirectly by peter navarro, or directly by donald trump. nothing. there is primarily no assertion of executive privilege here, either by the actual president or by any former president. and even if there were, even if president biden try to assert executive privilege for peter navarro, he would fail immediately because the privilege does not apply to private political business. much less to criminal activity like conducting coups or insurrections against the government. the privilege applies only to professional speech on government policy by advisers rendering confidential advice on matters within their domain of professional responsibility. now, peter navarro was the white house trade advisor. he was not within his job description to overthrow presidential elections,
but it is a coup organized by the president against the constitutional framework itself. the two contempt citations we vote on tonight will go to persons who have critical information about both components of this assault on america and the coordination between them. peter navarro worked to overthrow the election by nullifying 79 electoral college votes, cast by tens of millions of americans, who live in arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, new mexico, and wisconsin. how does so-called green bay sweep, which, by the way, is an insult to green bay packers all over the country. but has his so-called green bay sweep not been blocked by the bravery of our police officers, 150 of whom were injured, wounded, or hospitalized by insurrectionary violence and by
steve bannon to concoct a scheme they called the green day sweep. the core of the plan was to encourage vice president pence to delay certification of the electoral college votes on january 6th and to send the election back to state legislators. in his book, mr. navarro also writes what he called attorney general william barr he also writes that he called william barr, asking the department of justice to support president trump s legal efforts to challenge the election results. barr declined. notably, mr. navarro kept a journal detailing this episode and other postelection actions he took. finally, earlier this year, at the same time he was refusing to combine he made multiple media appearances, during which he discussed his various roles and the events that culminated and the january 6th attack. i would like to play a media clip right now. can you please cue the clip? what about this interview
coercive vice presidents into abandoning their constitutional responsibilities, or impose counterfeit regimes in place of the u.s. constitution. when navarro was plotting to overthrow the election, by canceling out the electoral college votes of 49 million americans in six states, to seize the presidency for his chosen candidate for four years, he was not rendering advice on trade policy. we are not seeking documents or testimony from navarro, related to his official duties as trade advisor. and indeed, on a press call to announce release of his outlandish and cartoonish three part report on outright fraud in the 2020 election on his personal website, navarro acknowledged publicly that he was writing as a private citizen and not as a federal government officials. rnment officia ls
please spurs the nonsense talk about executive privilege rejected now by a report that has looked at it. this is america. there s no executive privilege here for the presidents, much less treat advisers, the plot crews unorganized insurrections against the peoples government and the peoples constitution and then to cover up the evidence of their crimes. the courts aren t buying it, and neither are we. navarro insists only on adding insult to his contempt. more than a year after biden beat trump by more than 7 million votes, navarro continues to spread the big lie. trump won and he says quote, be on any shadow of a doubt this election was stolen. he brags about his work with steve bannon to apply pressure on vice president pence to do the wrong thing. he tells the complete story in his book in trump time, and in his three part report, which was made up of titles like, the immaculate deception, and the art of the steel.