Justice Dept. sues former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro in an effort to compel him to produce emails from a personal account that he allegedly used to conduct official White House business.
in an effort to compel him to produce emails from a personal account that he allegedly used to conduct official White House business.to turn over the records.
Navarro, a top trade adviser in the Trump administration, has refused to hand over the documents without first getting a"grant of immunity for the act of returning such records," according to the complaint. Last December, the National Archives and Records Administration became aware that Navarro had used a personal account with ProtonMail, an encrypted email service, to send and receive official emails while serving as an adviser to the president, the complaint said. Navarro did not copy his official White House account on the email exchanges, nor did he forward the email chains to his White House account, a violation of the Presidential Records Act, it said.
In response to the department’s suit, Navarro lawyers John Irving and John Rowley, said in a statement Wednesday that their client has “never refused to provide records to the government.” “As detailed in our recent letter to the Archives, Mr. Navarro instructed his lawyers to preserve all such records, and he expects the government to follow standard processes in good faith to allow him to produce records. Instead, the government chose to file its lawsuit today,” they wrote.
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