The aides – former White House Commercial Adviser Peter Navarro and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino Jr. – will now be referred to the Department of Justice for possible criminal prosecution. If convicted, they could face up to 12 months in prison and a maximum fine of $ 100,000. Navarro and Scavino did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday night on the House vote. Dan Scavino, left, and Peter Navarro. (Photos: Settlements Committee for the National Committee of Republicans 2020 via Getty Images, Alex Wong / Getty Images) Wednesday’s vote, 220 against 203, was largely in line with party lines. During the debate on the resolution, some Republican members of Congress criticized the January 6 committee’s inquiry, including the minority leader in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. “The January 6 Commission is a spectacular political trial that violates the political rights and rules of Congress,” McCarthy said. “When the Republicans win Parliament again, this theater will stop.” Ohio State Representative Jim Jordan accused the jury “is purely political, designed to do one thing: keep Donald Trump out of the ballot box in 2024.” Representative Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Who is on the panel, praised his only two Republican members, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, for their work in the investigation despite reactions from Trump and his Republican allies. . “If you do not agree with what Donald Trump says, if you do not behave like a robot or a member of a religious cult, they will destroy you,” Ruskin said. Peter Navarro, then director of the National Trade Council, speaks to members of the media outside the White House in 2020. (Stefani Reynolds / Sipa / Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Jan. 6 jury voted unanimously last week to scorn Scavino and Navarro after both men refused to comply with calls for testimony and documents detailing their role in Trump’s efforts to overturn the president’s results. 2020 uprising in the US Capitol, instigated by supporters of the former president, resulted in five deaths and left more than 140 police officers injured. The story goes on Both men have argued that because they worked for the White House at the time of the uprising, the information sought by the commission is protected by executive privilege. White House aides Dan Scavino and Hope Hicks listen as then-President Donald Trump attends a service at the Las Vegas International Church in 2020. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images) Wednesday’s vote in plenary makes Navarro and Scavino the third and fourth former Trump advisers to be referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution in connection with the Capitol attack investigation. So far, only the first of these references, for former White House chief of staff Steve Bannon, has led to a federal charge of criminal contempt of Congress. The Justice Department is still considering whether to prosecute former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after the plenary voted to dismiss him on charges of contempt in December. The committee also voted to pass another petition of contempt for former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark in November, but it never made it to the House after Clark agreed to attend an interview with the committee. more than 100 times. Representative Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Speaks with MP Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., And Representative Bennie Thompson, D-Miss, chair of the Jan. 6 selection committee. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images) Lawmakers on the selection committee have expressed frustration with Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department in recent days over concerns that key figures in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could be brought to justice. “Attorney General Garland, do your job so we can do ours,” said Elaine Luria, spokeswoman for D-Va., And a member of the committee last week. The committee is working quickly to complete its work, setting an informal deadline for the expected Republican takeover in November.
