So many Jan 6th villains, so little time to cover them all. I know this will not be a shock to you all, but Peter Navarro lied his ass off about his treatment by the FBI during his arrest. Instead of just letting Navarro’s accusations slide like water off a duck’s back, the FBI did release release an attachment to their arrest report stating that Peter Navarro lied like a cheap fuckin’ rug about his arrest.
I guess the FBI doesn’t like a big mouth to stand in front of a federal court house screaming to the Media about how awful the FBI is.
On the day of Peter Navarro’s arrest earlier this month, FBI agents read the ex-Donald Trump adviser his Miranda warnings and agreed to loosen his handcuffs, until he was no longer in pain. The arresting agents allowed him to call his attorney, but the self-represented Navarro did not have one...
“The Defendant has made numerous false statements in the press about his arrest—for example, that he was deprived of food and water,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda R. Vaughn wrote in a footnote to the motion. “In fact, when he asked, he was offered food and water, took it, then asked if he wanted more.”
Navarro was upset about his arrest for multiple reasons, but the greatest transgression was the FBI wouldn’t allow Navarro the chance to call the producer of a show he was supposed to be on that evening. When informed he could not call the producer, Navarro stated the following:
When the FBI informed him an attorney could handle such arrangement, Navarro called his arresting agents “kind Nazis.”
“How you could live with yourselves?” Navarro asked them.
Oh the horror. As bad as being tortured, or shot in the back of the head and fall into in a mass grave, or thrown into a gas chamber disguised as a shower. Actually, if Navarro’s allegations were true, those “kind Nazis” would not have let him get of that jail ALIVE.
For some reason, the FBI didn’t like the comparison to Nazis. And it is why they let the prosecutors know that Navarro was a whiny little...You get the idea.
Oh, and Navarro changed his mind about not accepting food or water. So what did those “kind Nazis” to do poor old Navarro?
“At 12:03 p.m., a bottle of water, chocolate, nuts, and dried fruit was provided to Navarro,” the FBI wrote. “Navarro was asked if he wanted anything else to eat or drink which he declined.”
Dried fruit is always how they break down a prisoner in custody.
And it also appears that Navarro didn’t impress the prosecutors either. Seems Navarro wants to get a lawyer NOW. But he wants 45 days to get a lawyer. And the lawyer is NOT for this current case. The lawyer would be for his civil suit AGAINST the Jan 6th Committee.
The presiding judge has not ruled on Navarro’s motion.
Navarro’s sense of Republican white privilege is bad enough. But what has always amazed me about Navarro is his blatant stupidity. I think Ari Melber has interviewed Navarro at least on two occasions. Melber has pointed out to Navarro that 1) he published a book about his role in the insurrection and 2) he is on Melber’s show spilling his guts. This has lead Melber to ask the obvious question of why Navarro simply will not talk to the Jan 6th Committe? And Navarro goes into shouting BS mode.
It got so bad that Melber had to basically say to Navarro, “You do KNOW that federal prosecutors can hear what you are saying?”
It seems federal prosecutors did watch Melber’s TV show.