• MamboGator@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Convicted for refusing to show up to congress, no less, and expected to show up to prison on his own. This is why people say “eat the rich”. If all humans are to be treated equally under the law but the rich aren’t, then the rich must not be human, so it’s not even cannibalism.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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    This should make a few people nervous. Is this the first high-level Trump official who’s actually going to prison

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          I wonder what guys like Robert Mueller must think seeing how things have played out since his investigation. Maybe he’s just fine with it.

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            I was just thinking about Blade Runner. The point being that people get swallowed up in bureaucracies and act like machines.

            My guess is that he thinks he was just doing his job and did it well and is fine with how it turned out.

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          So vote for Biden this year. Trump, as president, could ask people to commit crimes and then just pardon them. Nixon only resigned because it “looked bad”.

          There are no legal repercussions as long as no one rats the president out. Why would they when he can pardon them?

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      Not nervous enough. This ass is going to some club fed where he’ll have TV and internet and luxuries that many free Americans can’t afford. The 13th Amendment says:

      Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

      I want to see these traitors treated like poor people get treated. I want so see him and the rest of the traitors in a prison in Georgia or Alabama or somewhere similar where they can be put to work doing manual labor for pennies an hour. I want to see them sent to a southern state to wear shackles and pick produce in the fields every day all summer. Then maybe their successors will me less likely to try their treason the next time they think they see the chance.

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    8 months ago

    4 months. That’s pretty much a long vacation for someone like this. A quick-lookup guesses that his net worth is around 10 million and he’s 75 years old. This isn’t even a slap on the wrist.

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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Peter Navarro, once an economic adviser to former President Trump, has been ordered to report to a Miami prison March 19 to begin serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

    U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who oversaw Navarro’s trial, declined to allow the Trump ally to stay out of prison while the appellate process plays out.

    Ex-White House adviser Steve Bannon was also convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress last year and sentenced to four months in prison, but a different judge said he could remain free pending appeal.

    Navarro told the judge during his sentencing he had an “honest belief” that executive privilege had been invoked by Trump — a matter Mehta precluded him from using as a defense at trial.

    The ex-Trump adviser’s lawyers wrote court filings that Mehta’s decision “hamstrung” Navarro’s defense by leaving open the question of whether a president can direct his subordinates not to testify before Congress.

    After his conviction last year, Navarro told reporters his case could reach the Supreme Court due to the questions it raises about executive privilege for high-ranking White House staff.


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