Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro to be sentenced for defying Jan. 6 committee subpoena

Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro will be sentenced on Thursday for defying a congressional subpoena to cooperate with the House Jan. 6 committee.

Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro is in federal court Thursday to be sentenced for defying a congressional subpoena to cooperate with the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Navarro was convicted in September on one count of contempt of Congress over his refusal to appear for a deposition in front of the committee, and on a second count for refusing to produce documents.

He had argued that former President Trump had instructed him to invoke executive privilege, but prosecutors disputed that.

Navarro is the second Trump adviser to be convicted for refusing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 panel, after Steve Bannon was found guilty in July of defying a Jan. 6 committee subpoena.