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Following the rejection of Peter Navarro’s request for release pending appeal of his criminal contempt conviction, the former Trump White House aide criticized the report from special counsel Robert Hur stating that Biden would not be prosecuted for the classified documents discovered in his garage.
“This on the same day I am ordered to prison,” Navarro wrote on Gettr. “Biden could portray himself as an ‘elderly man with a poor memory’ who would be sympathetic to a jury.”
“So no prosecution. Wow.”
United States District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled on Thursday must still report to prison. In January, Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of Congress after not submitting to a subpoena from the January 6 Committee.
“Defendant insists that his prosecution was ‘motivated by political bias’,” Mehta wrote, “yet, he offers no actual proof to support that contention … If anything, the record demonstrates just the opposite.”
The report released on Thursday by Hur stated that “Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”
Biden’s memory, Hur’s report claimed, “was significantly limited” during his 2023 interviews with the special counsel.
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