Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser in Donald Trump’s White House, appears to be heading to jail.

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    8 months ago

    Wow, imagine being so self important that you petitioned the Supreme Court for an emergency intervention to keep you from going to a 4 month sentence for a fairly ordinary situation.

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      An ordinary situation that was solely caused by himself, if you’re called to testify then testify even if it’s just asserting your fifth amendment right.

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        8 months ago

        Really big trend that year for Republicans to decide they can just ignore subpoenas. Meanwhile, these days Gym of Ohio, who ignored a subpoena in 2022, is threatening Fani Willis for not responding to subpoenas quickly enough.

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      8 months ago

      Well the Supreme Court is clearly corrupt, so it was worth a shot.

      Piece of shit really dreading it; probably mostly the public shaming of it all. Pleases me greatly.