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Peter Navarro Asking for Donations Because He Doesn’t ‘Want to Spend His Retirement Savings on Lawyers’

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These Trump people, I swear they are a different breed.

Like, does Peter Navarro have any friends? Family? Family who cares about him? Longtime acquaintances? Is there no one in this man’s life who cares enough to tell him to shut his damn mouth?

And side note…it wouldn’t be his wife, now ex-wife, who divorced him while he was working for Trump. Their divorce became final just days before the insurrection in fact, on December 30, 2020! And Leslie Wynne Lebon — who filed for divorce from Navarro on Nov. 26, 2018 — is getting half of Navarro’s pension benefits and splitting several bank accounts. So good…glad she got out while she was able to get something.

Moving on.

Now, after blowing off subpoenas from the January 6 Select Committee and a federal grand jury, Donald Trump’s former trade adviser finds himself under indictment for contempt of Congress. At his initial appearance at the beginning of June, the economist and former college professor said he was going to defend himself because “I don’t want to spend my retirement savings on lawyers.”

Ouch.

Navarro then famously marched out of the courthouse and gave a crazy press conference alleging all types of prosecutorial misconduct and abuse by arresting authorities. He followed it up with appearances on Fox and Newsmax, where he spoke in detail about the case and claimed that he’d been treated worse than Al-Qaeda.

Appearing on a bunch of right-wing tv shows and talking about the case wasn’t the best idea for Navarro, as prosecutors quickly filed a motion for a protective order since they’re not about to hand over grand jury materials to a loudmouth Trumper who’s shown he’s very likely every to share them with anyone who will listen.

So, Navarro is going to be fighting this for a while and since he doesn’t want to spend HIS OWN MONEY, he wants Trump supporters to hand over theirs. What a grifter. It’s truly remarkable, how little shame these people have. He doesn’t want to use his own money, he wants people to donate theirs. Such a Republican, the party of personal responsibility and bootstraps!

As you’d imagine, it didn’t go over very well on Twitter:

Nicole Hickman
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Nicole Hickman James is a lifelong Democrat and political activist who first cut her teeth as a teenager volunteering for Mike Dukakis’ presidential campaign. She has worked and volunteered for John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, HFA (Hillary For America), and Organizing For Action. She’s passionate about liberal and progressive causes and considers President Obama her favorite president ever. She holds her Bachelor’s from Boston College in Economics and her Master's from Columbia, also in Economics. When not working as a writer, she enjoys traveling and spending time with her three college-aged children.

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