Navarro Pleads Not Guilty In Contempt Case While Pushing To Delay Trial For Book Tour

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Where did Navarro find this attorney? No judge is going to delay a trial for a book deal tour

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Irving told Mehta that he and Rowley would need several weeks to review Navarro’s case, as well as that of Steve Bannon, the only other Trump aide to be charged with contempt of Congress for stonewalling the Jan. 6 committee. He also stressed that Navarro hoped to push the trial date to next year to allow him to promote his upcoming book in time for Christmas.

“Mr. Navarro has a book that’s coming out, and his latter part of the year, especially November and December, is going to be a time where he’s going to be on the road a lot, trying to promote that book, which is important to him in terms of his income and whatnot — it’s not a trivial matter.”

“The book comes out in September, the marketing starts in August, and then runs heavily all the way through Dec. 25, and even more so toward the latter part of the year,” he added later.

“It’s also going to distract him, as a practical matter, from helping Mr. Rowley and I,” Irving said.

For their part, federal prosecutors said they were prepared for “the earliest possible date” and said “the government has serious concerns about delaying trial for a book tour.”

It appears that Navarro's crazy lawsuit on the subpoena was rejected

Navarro referred to the federal grand jury subpoena as the “fruit of the poisonous tree,” arguing that the Jan. 6 committee was itself illegitimate, though a federal judge rejected that argument from Bannon on Wednesday.

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1. Glad the judge isn't buying that

It's no stretch of the imagination to guess that when November and December have passed Navarro will say that his book sales weren't quite what he was expecting, so he couldn't possibly prepare for and go to trial in February or March, and he needs to goose his sales, so he can't be meeting with his attorneys, so can he get the trial date bumped back to, say, June?

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2. The trial date is November 17. His book comes out in September

That is at least 6 weeks to go on a book tour and do media shows. He’s lucky he has that much.