Former President Donald Trump‘s adviser Peter Navarro was threatened on Tuesday with contempt for defying a judge’s order to return stacks of presidential records to the National Archives.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered Navarro to return dozens of records he had argued were his personal documents and did not need to be returned to the government, according to a six-page opinion.
Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro arrives at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Kollar-Kotelly said that many of the records contained in a 50-document sample of the records Navarro claimed were personal were generated in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election. Navarro issued a series of reports in the closing weeks of 2020 that relied on allegations of voter fraud to support Trump’s claims that
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